Salvo Brio Lyrics & Chords By The Lido Venice

I'm swinging from your mizzenmast.
You ought to cut me down fast,
Before the welcome party on the other shore
Sees me.

Before
Ample examples of your carbon-copy
Cartography, dead demarcations in bottles,
Reach the beach.

Maybe I lept to the sea.
Or maybe these hand prints on my back tell a different story

You leafed through logs
And loosed the lifeboats,
Hanged me with my own ropes--
Ropes
I tried to use to bind you to the mast

When you were
On the receiving end of sirens.
I hope you were deafened by my splash,
Because if their voices hit your
Ears this time,
After my burial at sea,
They'll lure you to the rocks for sure.
No one will make it out alive.

I wrote these songs in the belly of a whale.
It's a nice place to visit,
But I wouldn't want to live there.

I will keep
Swimming like I always do.
Oh, even dead,
I can't bear to let myself just float.