A Thousand Ships (Take II)

After A Thousand Ships by Katy Droge

Co-written with Seanan McGuire and Batya Wittenberg

TTTO: A Thousand Songs by Bill Steele
And I started out this morning by outshining the sun
I won the golden apple and I've only just begun
I'll try to launch a thousand ships before this day is done
And tomorrow we will have the Trojan War.

(the tune shifts here to Five Hundred Miles by The Proclaimers)
When I wake up, well you I know I'm going to be,
I'm gonna be right here behind the walls of Troy,
And I know that they are never gonna call
I know they'll never call him selfish lovesick boy.

I was married, I was married to a man
Who thought that I was just a pretty golden toy
It would be nice, were he coming here to save me
But he's not, he's only coming to destroy.

And they will launch five hundred ships
And they will launch five hundred more
(They'll say) I'm the face that launched
A thousand ships to start their stupid war.

Pretty Helen! (Pity Helen!) Pretty Helen! (Pity Helen!)
Bum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-ba.
Stupid Trojans! (Lousy Trojans!) Stupid Trojans! (Lousy Trojans!)
Bum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-ba.

Far below me, on the shore the battle rages
And the fire arrows pierece me to the core
Well Cassandra said this was a bad idea
But nobody listens to her anymore.

And the mirror doesn't tell me any lies
As the tears run down to wet my wrinkling lips
When he stole me he forgot the moisturizer
To preserve the face that launched a thousand ships.

And they will launch five hundred ships
And they will launch five hundred more
(They'll say) I'm the face that launched
A thousand ships to start their stupid war.

Agamemnon! (Agamemnon!) Agamemnon! (Agamemnon!)
Bum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-ba.
Poor Cassandra! (Damn Apollo!) Poor Cassandra! (Damn Apollo!)
Bum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-ba.

And they will launch five hundred ships
And they will launch five hundred more
(They'll say) I'm the face that launched
A thousand ships to start their stupid war.

Written over dinner in January, 2003, in a restaurant. Katy didn't kill us, and that's what counts.