Salvage A Smile Lyrics - Laura Veirs

Dead eye from the wood of life 

Hold the ropes and the rigging lines 

Red-eye a.m. Here i lie 

Shipwreck passing underneath 

What of the sailor and her spinning wheel? 

What was she thinking being 

Swallowed by the water whole? 

Red on the left, green on the right 

You can see me coming in the morning light 

Brass and glass and rusted iron 

Sextant here for the heavenly bodies 

Compass here but the needle's shot 

Magnetic deviation screws me up 

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Break the glass from your hanging lanterns 

Break the sea with your blackened anchors 

And you might end up a floating junk pile 

But you can always scramble to salvage a smile 

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