The First League Out From Land-The Tossers

[ti:The First League Out From Land] [ar:The Tossers] [al:The First League Out From Land] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The First League Out From Land - The Tossers [00:34.89]Bred as we among the mountains how the sailor understands [00:39.69]The divine intoxication of the first league out from land [00:44.56]Endless sea I've chosen vast and desolate it may seem [00:51.73]But it's the way we all choose to go the idea not the dream [00:59.91]The sun burns me back to consciousness on the deck on which I slept [01:05.09]I don't want to get up I don't want to go though no one here's inept [01:12.08]They've all gone their separate ways all separate ways to home [01:15.45]That's when we find out where we've gone we travelled out alone [01:20.06]Time is a test of trouble on this endless sea of wine [01:24.93]And only sailor knows this trouble to each is theirs is thine [01:30.61]The shanty's a f**king survival test that only the brutish know [01:37.91]And if I fall down into my own I won't ask you to go [01:49.27]'Tis only I who knows my travels all upon this endless sea [01:57.57]And my ship will never come into port lest 'tis by chaos my anarchy [02:03.75]Will be crushed and if I fall then I will let myself down go [02:09.74]I will never soon now dock at port though it's hard to get up and go [02:15.98]Oh well I mingle and I cluster and I fester down and sore [02:20.28]And I lay down where I end up like a wave upon the shore [02:27.59]And I scramble to get paid but at least for what I've done and made [02:35.14]I'm not begging work of anyone no cheque it can persuade