The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul

The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - The Manhattan Transfer/WDR Funkhausorchester

Lyrics by：Andy Partridge

Composed by：Andy Partridge

The man who sailed around his soul

From east to west from pole to pole

With ego as his drunken captain

Greed the mutineer had trapped all reason in the hold

The man who walked across his heart

Who took no compass guide or chart

To rope and tar his blood congealed when

He found himself revealed ugly and cold

And the sirens that sing

By your nose with it's ring

They'll drag you in for your sins

Now he sits all alone

And there's no place like home

It's empty skin a bag to keep life's souvenirs in

The man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed around his soul

Came back again to find a hole

Where once he thought compassion and the truth

Had laid to warm his freezing carcass on return

The man who walked across his heart

Was doomed to journey to the start

Of every love affair he'd broken

All the lies he'd ever spoken tattooed on his arm

And the jelly fish stings

Even angels with wings

Who look too deep and dare to peep

Now he sits all alone

Knowing flesh blood and bone is everything

He'd found the treasure he'd been seeking

The man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed around his soul

Not sorry for the man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed

Round his soul

East to west from pole to pole

The man who walked across his heart

Doomed to journey to the start

The man who sailed around his soul

Round his soul