when mermaids call us

 when mermaids call us 
     by lucky loudmouth luciano

rivets falling from the sky
blasting out his nether eye
madness must in great ones go
marks of sadness marks of woe
sailors round the world may throw
lines of travel thick as slow
none though there embrace I know
in spite of hints that acke’man showed
we slip blind through the world then end
wow we see then by whom we’re sent 
though proofs of him give little hope
to go on when we miss the rope
the short end of the stick is fine
as long as there’s a lot of wine
wine sweet as lemans nice as terns
fair as hades fine as ferns
free me lord to see the truth
that in a grain of wheat lie doth
the farmer’s daughter never yet
when mermaids beckon we forget
hear them we never when we want
and never when we’re kindly called
grant me the wisdom lord to hear
grow me ears sir and the cheer
to give them credit when it’s due
I have the worst time and that’s true 
so if you should perchance to read 
a book a month about the need
to send more cash to foreign lands 
don’t blame the crazies they’re not bad
we tend to name the ones who fail
we hand them wiseness by the pail
so we are laden with the grave
we get the burden of the slave
the very one that children get