Momus - Is It Because I'm A Pirate? lyrics

Is it because I'm a pirate?




Now I've done a string of horrible things

Like murdering, pillaging and theft

I've looted the junks in the Straits of Malacca

Put Spanish explorers to death

But prejudice would be the ugliest thing

For a waitress so lovely to feel



Is it because I'm a pirate

You seem to have cancelled our date?

And is it because I'm a pirate

That now it's a quarter to eight?

Your prejudice turns you against me

But I am prepared to wait



"I like your eyepatch!" Who said that?

I took in your waist then your face

Floating above me, pouring out tea

In some Nakameguro place

And though it was rude to the girl I was with

I asked if you'd go for a date

And then when you said you'd be happy to meet

I dreamed of your breasts and your face



Is it because I'm a pirate

You seem to have cancelled our date?

Your prejudice turned you against me

And now it's a quarter past eight

A stereotype would be ugly

For someone so lovely to propagate



Of course I am wanted by customs officials

Of course I'm an international fugitive

When not slitting throats of the people in boats

I am kind and surprisingly sensitive

Set your mind free, as I know you can

One day you may see me as just another man



Is it because I'm a pirate

I seem to be stood up again?

And is it because I'm a pirate

It's already quarter to ten?

Life is too short, I am too great

For a waitress so lovely to hate

But I am prepared to wait