Bound East For Cardiff Lyrics

Fair wind and a light to guide me by A thousand miles of ocean and a million years of sky It's the promise of the poet - it's the storyteller's lie Nothing's ever how it seems to be Can you stay alive and still be lost at sea I used to care now I don't give a damn I know every bar and brothel from Argentina to Japan I've fought my way across every bay and they tell me once that I killed a man Well maybe it was either him or me You could say that I saved him from the sea chorus And this sailor life's not much to cry 'bout the leaving Travelling the world around Trying to get out of sailor town Another drink - another bar-room brawl Then you're too drunk to stand but not drunk enough to fall All the faces and the places they seem the same Like wreckage on the shoreline we play the loser's game And all my pay it just drains away I'll never get back home again Why are the dice all loaded against me Never chance your luck against the sea chorus One more trip and then I'll take my pay And I'll go back home and make believe I've never been away I'll look for work and hope someone might still want me to stay One last drink and then I'm on my own Still trying to make the long voyage home chorus You're not drunk enough You're not drunk enough You're not drunk enough...