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What Ships Are Built For

from Anthropocene Blues by Samuel Lockridge

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All of my lovers live off of Limestone,
on the north side of the town,
where you drink wine from chipped coffee cups
and the best way to get up is to go down.

I'm gonna miss these millennial crooked-ass houses
where we laid our dreams to rest
of a life without loans, a green land to call home,
and fresh air in our lungs.

I've got all my retirement savings in Bitcoin,
5.56, and MREs.
Got half-decent looks and some coloring books
to pass the time 'til the end.
May not have any friends,
but at least my heart won't get broken again.

Ah, but love gives,
and love, it takes,
and love, it lives and dies,
like everything under the sun
worth seeing with sober eyes.

You can sow stones instead of seeds,
wall off your ships from the rising seas,
and it's true, you'll never get broken again.

Baby Jesus went walking on Michigan water.
Mother Mary shouts from the car,
"you better get back to shore or I'll give you what for,
'cause that shit isn't safe!"

Farewell, mountain mamas and honky tonk angels.
Farewell, witches of the wood.
The quarantine haze hanging over our days
is just the opening act.
May have a doom-colored lens,
but at least my heart won't get broken again.

Ah, but love gives
and love, it takes,
and love, it lives and dies
like everything under the sun
worth seeing with sober eyes.

You can sow stones instead of seeds,
wall off your ships from the rising seas,
and it's true, you'll never get broken again.

Hope it's worth it to never get broken again.

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from Anthropocene Blues, released July 10, 2020

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Samuel Lockridge is a singer-songwriter, producer, sound designer, and theatre artist based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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