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Governors Ball

from Sea Lungs Pt​.​1 by Sea Lungs

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An envelope announced the invitation
So time to bind a ribbon in your hair
The carriage would arrive upon a winding road
And anyone who’s anybody would be there
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So lashed up tight, string the bodice front to back
And softly mouth prayers for it all
A fateful night, your breeding will be brought to bear
Come and fit your slippers for the Governor’s ball
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The voices cried aloud out of a perfumed shroud
A hand appears unbidden on your shawl
Irises dilate beneath an arching brow
A moustache tilts to pin you to the wall
A vessel for projection, a plaything for a wretch
A sample in a specimen jar
A masterful oration and a furious dash
Announces the arrival of the governor’s car
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Oh and his charms they were legion
An entourage it coasted on his grace
His presence at the debut of the season
Was almost worth the penance of his pox-riddled face
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And the room fell silent for a spell
As his girth played tricks with gravity
A leer announced he’d like to get to know me well
As he fixed both eyes upon me
Fat backside and a polio stride
A cousin’s coupling offspring you’d agree
Peptides and bromides with which I was plied
As he gently slung me down on the setee’
And his whispers were as coarse as his fingers
Stumbling over lines of stolen perjury
I think I heard a crack as his body went slack
As I spindled him within my rush to leave
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So lashed up tight, string the bodice front to back
And softy mouth prayers for it all
A shameful night, your breeding will be brought to bear
So come unclip your garter at the governor’s ball.

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from Sea Lungs Pt​.​1, released March 1, 2021

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Sea Lungs Melbourne, Australia

Sea Lungs spin tales of Gin-soaked dockside demise. Bearing witness to the fall of a perverse empire and dancing to the sounds of the death rattle.

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