Third Eye Blind – Shipboard Cook lyrics

I wanna go to the ocean
and send a postcard of my loneliness
Forgetting you is so elusive
I run away but it's always this
You're the only one
I love
It's always been you

And I wish I was conscripted in the Merchant Marines
Shanghaied into service of sails and machines
just to stay alive
(oh)
And my sister keeps it simple she’s a shipboard cook
She can drive a line, but if you take a look
She's kinda worried though
(oh)

'Cause I'm hoping you will find me
I keep hoping you will find me
Hoping you will find me
I keep hoping you will find me
(ooh ooh)

I'm always a ghost
I tried your gypsy table readings, some seance stunt
I keep an open mind but I think it’s just a front
Want to believe it though
(oh)

My sister says "Forget her boy, that's all that you need"
pitching magical elixirs and bottles full of mead
for a broken heart
It's too late for that

So light 'em boys, here to your youth
Sing loud enough to tell the truth
I lost myself and that's where I lost you
Oh-oh, let go of that whipping post
I'm always a ghost

You're about as haunted as a darkened basement
I've got all the chances of a dog in a settlement
All about her secrets, she'll never tell
I ride along without 'em on a deep sea swell
I heard there's someone new, and she starts to talk
She's the merry widow on the widow's walk
And the fear is I've no one no matter where you are
In this twisted fucked up film noire

And I'm hoping you will find me
I keep hoping you will find me
Hoping you will find me
I keep hoping you will find me
Yeah yeah yeah

So light 'em boys, here to your youth
Sing loud enough to tell the truth
I lost myself and that's where I lost you
Oh-oh, let go of that whipping post
I'm always a ghost

I’m always a ghost
I’m always a ghost
I’m always a ghost

So light 'em boys, here to your youth
Sing loud enough to tell the truth
I lost myself and that's where I lost you
Oh-oh, let go of that whipping post
I'm always a ghost

So light 'em boys, here to your youth
Sing loud enough to tell the truth
I lost myself and that's where I lost you
Oh-oh, let go of that whipping post
I'm always a ghost