With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, like all things, fades and I
Can recall our caravel:
A little wicker beetle shell
With four fine maste and lateen sails
Its bearings on Cair Paravel
Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to've seen
The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
They caw and claw all afternoon "Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living-room
A loom of metal, warp woof wimble"
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to've seen
Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
It was a funny funny little thing
We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable as clay But ships are fallible, I say And the nautical, like all things, fades and I Can recall our caravel: A little wicker beetle shell With four fine maste and lateen sails Its bearings on Cair Paravel Oh my love Oh it was a funny little thing To be the ones to've seen The sight of bridges and balloons Makes calm canaries irritable They caw and claw all afternoon "Catenaries and dirigibles Brace and buoy the living-room A loom of metal, warp woof wimble" And a thimblesworth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble Oh my love Oh it was a funny little thing To be the ones to've seen Oh my love Oh it was a funny little thing It was a funny funny little thing Explain Request ×
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