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Tom Robinson
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As a child, I was terrified of the mighty ocean
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When I heard the distant urging of the brine
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Though I cried at night as I tried to fight the emotion
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That bitter cup of tears was truly mine
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But when I came to taste the spray on the waterfront
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I lost my fear and shrugged away my shame
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And I stowed away on a trans-atlantic freighter
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With the tempest raging in my every vein
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A man may spend his life afloat, a man may live ashore
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I'll cast away and take my chance at sea
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There were stormy days and roaring nights a-plenty
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In the salty fellowship of boys and men
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They were tough and true, they were glassy eyed and reckless
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With a blazing thirst, I drank and drank again
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We crossed the line, explored the depths of danger
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Exceeding every fantasy and dream
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No landsman with his stifling horizons
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Could ever guess the wonders we had seen
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A man may spend his life afloat, a man may live ashore
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I'll cast away and take my chance at sea
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I've braved the waves in an open boat and I know these waters well
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I'll man your lifeboat any time you need
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Way, castaway from the restless aching
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Way, castaway, gonna leave it all behind
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Way, far away where the waves are breaking
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Way, far away where the ocean meets the sky
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Well a ship must tack and a man must follow his compass
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On an unknown shore I foundered in the sand
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Met a salty girl with a sailor's gait and her eyes were a greeny blue
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And she knew the ropes like the back of her sunburned hand
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We danced a hornpipe on the beach to the sound of the seething swell
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We drank and sank exhausted on the strand
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Till I slipped my anchor, quit my ship and became a castaway
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To savor the embrace of her native land
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A man may spend his life afloat, a man may live ashore
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A man may marry and still put out to sea
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We brave the waves in our open boat and we know these waters well
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We'll man your lifeboat any time you need
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Way, castaway from the restless aching
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Way, castaway, gonna leave it all behind
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Way, far away where the waves are breaking
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Way, far away, where the ocean meets the sky
Tom Robinson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway
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