Levi The Poet - Oh Captain, My Captain! lyrics

Step out the front door friend!
Tossed up my keys
From here here on out, I'm gonna
Do whatever it is I please
Just outside of this thickening window is
A world full of opportunity
For me and you, and you and me

But, I fell into that
Same flawed fantasy that
Detaching myself from Daddy’s
Bedtime stories and
Mommy's singing me to sleep is gonna be
The key that's gonna set me free
But, you want out so badly
Right now baby girl
But just you wait and see
How much you miss our mom and dad
Once you finally get the chance to leave
I wanna go home to my own bed tonight
To sleep and cuddle with my puppy


I miss my puppy!
I wanna make-believe that she
Is a girl sleeping
Next to me like I used to
When I was lonely
Like I was lucky enough to have somebody
There next to me to keep
Me company when I woke up in
The morning and hold me but now I’m

Buried in the arms of someone
Else and missing mother’s
And I miss the weathered hands of my
Dad while holding tightly to my lover's
And we call this free

But now
I'm eighteen baby! You wanna see my ID?
I'm gonna buy my own cigarettes!
In fact, two packs please
Two packs for the two years
I already ran myself broke
And two more for the two more I’m
Gonna count on these to cope i’ll take
Two packs for the two days that
I’m planning on being away, i'll
Smoke ‘em both on the first
So that on the second
I can give my lungs a break

Ah that was the plan anyway, hah
Oh my god is that a two-for-one
Deal on the 27’s you know
On second thought
I better just get two more in case
On that second day when I wake
I decide to smoke all eight

But a Captain and Coke would
Go so nicely right now because I have been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget
About the fact that I’ve been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget
About the fact that I’ve been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget
About the fact that I drink a lot
And actually forgot about the
Fact that I'm down

And it's funny how perspectives
Change so quickly
When you’re the one with your
Head beneath that toilet seat
Wearing the crown on your feet
And as I lift up my head
From that bathroom sink I
Sink into the mirror and scream
"you don’t know me!"
And paul said it perfectly
"i am the worst of these"
But every now and then I swear to
God I got that guy beat
And I used to be such
A fan of abstract poetry
But that quiet, clouded
Kind of confusing painting went from a
Diluted gray-scale to vibrant
Honesty pretty quickly
And in fact I’m a little sickly
And in fact I’m a
Little scared sometimes that
This is all gonna be in vain
With a million little me's just
Running around all of eternity
It’s no wonder my hope has such a bad name

But, I know no matter how large a hypocrite
Or how small my faith
When you started to talk about perfection
The way you talked about my pain

You became the seed inside that
Gave root to change!
I pray that there is power
In prayer and I hope
With all my heart that I will find you there
You're bigger than my skepticism
How dare I compare the high
I prescribe with that beauty
I am the skeleton in a
Little fragile skin and-

You became the seed inside that
Gave root to change
And I pray that there's gonna
Be power in prayer and
I hope with all my heart that
You will find me there
And if you're bigger than my skepticism then
How dare I compare the high I
Prescribe with that beauty you prepare
I am the skeleton in a
Little fragile skin and