Man Overboard - Lloyd Cole

Mary, what can I do

To make you feel same as I do?

Stow me away to Ballico Bay

But I’ve got no sea legs at all

Sailors, they know the score

They don’t come to port every storm

They’ve got fair weather gals

And rainy day dames

And they’re gone on the wing before dawn

Man overboard against all of the evidence

Girl under siege doth protest

That she wants to be alone

The clown’s in the water

The ship’s pulling out

The circus don’t ever leave town

He sees a lover and

She sees another man overboard

So she channels Garbo

Carves a halo of smoke

Still he spies through his watery eyes

And cries Mary, what can I do?

The clown’s in the water

The ship’s pulling out

The circus won’t ever leave town

He sees a lover and

She sees another man overboard

Another man overboard

Another man overboard