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Cabin Fever!
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seed
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The captains fore-arm like bunched-up rope
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With A-N-I-T-A wrigglin' free on a skull ' dagger
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And a portrait of Christ, nailed to an anchor
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Etched into his upper
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O, O, O cabin fever!
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O, O, O cabin fever!
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Slams his fucken tin-dish down
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Our captain, takes time to crush
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Some bloo-bottles glowin' in his gruel
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With a lump in his throat, and lumpy mush
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Thumbing a scrapbook stuck up with clag
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And a morbid lump of love in his flags
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Done is the missing, now all that remains
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Is to sail forever, upon the stain
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Cabin fever!
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O, O, O cabin fever!
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The captains free-hand is a cleaver
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Which he fashions his beard, and he rations his jerkey
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And carves his peg outa the finest mahagony
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Or was it ebony? Etc.
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Tallies up his loneliness, notch by notch
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For the sea offers nuthin' to hold or touch
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Notch by notch, winter by winter
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Notch X notch, winter X winter
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Now his leg is whittled, right down to a splinter
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O, O, cabin fever!
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O, O, O, cabin fever!
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O, the rollin', sea still rollin' on
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She's everywhere now that
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She's gone, gone, gone
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O cabin fever!
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O cabin fever!
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Welcome to his table, beloved-unconscious
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Raisin' her host of hair from her crooks
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And strugglin' to summon one of her looks
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His arm now like coiled s-s-snakes
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Whips all the bottles that he's drunk
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Like crystal, skittles about the cabin
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Of a ship they'd been sailing
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Five years sunken, etc.
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