Aesop Rock The Harbor Is Yours Lyrics

(Oh, we're gonna do it real slow for y'all... Throw your babies in the air)

Dead men tell no tales
Up push the daisies 'til the soil is stale
In a powder blue tux for the farmer's sale
Mr. Big Sleep with the carp and kelp

Look, once upon a time in the days of yore
When the people lived fresh outta legend and folklore
There was an old pirate who followed a vile slang
Had a bird perched on him and swashbuckle the same
Peg leg navigate him starboard to port
By the nautical starry male and the harbor is yours
And you should tell him where you situate the gold
That is unless you'd like a vacation with Davy J-J-J-Jones

Like walk plank, for whom? - The shark tank
Maroon the mutineers; consume the souvenirs
And while the shiny spoils piled higher every year
He was suffocating slow in the box of a buccaneer
Ten summers prior on a night like this
Crow's nest scoped something afloat to the boat's west
Swore it blew him a kiss
When he focused, seen the face of an angel upon the body of a f-f-f-fish

What the heck! Frazzled, his telescope shattered, gathered himself
She was ghost; he was down the rope ladder to deck
Circled the vessel the three-sixty swiftly
Found nothing in the water but salt, p___ and whiskey
Yarr! Heckled by the swabbies at the bar
He'll be the laughing stock of the Barbary Coast War
Like "This dude either got two glass eyes
Or he wearin' his patch on the wrong s-s-s-side"

Now he knew what he saw, but had to prove he was raw
So he raped and he'd pillage and he'd feud and he'd brawl
Tried to rekindle his rep via sabers and gun smoke
And vowed to always find her, though he never told his cutthroats
Meanwhile, back in the now
Got a brand new skeleton crew on the move out
When they aren't manning thirty burnin' cannons, stern and bow
They are prying shiny metals out your m-m-m-mouth

Okay, youth wanes, old age holler wisdom and disease
Like the scurvy made his yellow gums bleed
And he was achy from his boots to the feather in his hat
'Til his quartermaster showed up with a stolen treasure map
One look down and leapt off the dock
See if you can guess where X marked the spot
The capital was buried at sea in a cursed cave
Only one mile from where he'd seen the mer-mer-mer-mermaid

Anchors up, hoist the Jolly Roger, thank you much
Day and night with his hook hands raised and clutched
But see, the vitamin deficiency was strong
So by the time they b__ped into the island he could barely lift his grog
Crawled off the boat, collapsed in the sand
Prayers in the air, seashells in his hand
And nary a high tide so grand
As the one that put the lady of the lake on dry la-la-la-land

And I wish I could tell you that it ended happy
Pretend like his bones weren't practically snapping
Pretend like her gills didn't dry up in suffer
But that's a half-dead pirate and a fish out of water
No lie, scouts honor, got a million more
From the burgundy lighting above the shores of w____s
Before your visions of grandeur go to swell those sails
Remember, dead men tell no t-t-t-tales

Dead men tell no tales
Up push the daisies 'til the soil is stale
In a powder blue tux for the farmer's sale
Mr. Big Sleep with the carp and kelp

Dead men tell no tales (Walk the plank)
Dead men tell no tales (Walk the plank)
Dead men tell no tales (Walk the plank)
Dead men tell no tales (Walk the plank into the sea)