My Ship Lyrics - Shawn Mullins

My ship up here is sinkin' 

Yeah but this is what I am 

And I'd tell you what I'm thinkin' 

If I thought you'd give a damn 

And I don't know a single one of you 

But you feel like a winter rain 

Tell me would listen to the words I sing to you 

If I knew you all by name 

It's neither here nor there 

Cause I still wake up in my hotel room 

With this smokey barroom still in my clothes and hair 

Every night is different 

Every night's the same 

Ain't if funny how each of us 

Has his own way to kill the pain 

How to kill the pain 

Makes me think of my friend Jimmy 

Who never could behave 

He bought a gator skateboard 

With the money that he saved 

He rode that four wheel sufrin' board around 

Till he was old enough to shave 

Then it was replaced by a beat up old '69 La Sabre 

He'd putter off to school 

As fast as that thing would get 

And all the kids would say 

Here comes Jimmy in that beat up piece of shit 

He used to take up two whole spaces 

In the parking lot 

Yea now Jimmy's doin' seven years 

For stickin' up a subway sandwich shop 

So crawl beneath your words 

Say what's on your mind 

Tell it like it is 

Don't get stuck behind 

Cause it's the truth you know, 

That gets you by 

It's not who or what you know, 

It's why 

So straddle that old fencepost 

And fade it down to nothing 

And you'll see 

You might see 

That my ship up here is sinkin' 

But this is what I am 

And I'd tell you waht I'm thinkin' 

If I thought you gave a damn 

So take this in or don't 

I don't really care 

You will or you won't 

2 choices in the air...