Karkadens, The - We All End Up Like Jack lyrics

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With a bird upon your shoulder

And a devil in your eye

You find that doors are open

Every corner in the night

Still your hand rests on your cutlass

And ye best be drinking light

Cause we all end up like Jack

In the gallows of my heart

There hangs a warning in its whole

The entirety of misery

As no other man has known

And everyday it swings so heavily

With no sign that it will slow

And we all end up like Jack

Oh we all end up

A vagabond, a carouser, an anchor in the depths

An omen to the brethren on a rope’s bedevilled end

In the gallows of my heart and with the ever changing winds

Swing the blighted bones of buccaneers, tethered with chagrin

In my many years I’ve seen so very few men to survive

The tortuous waters bearing for the east as long as I’ve

But these oceans hold the remedy, bled and washed it from the land

And we all end up like Jack