Pleasures of the Harbor by Phil Ochs https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/track/pleasures-of-the-harbor

On the surface, this is a song about a sailor and a prostitute. Ochs distills their night of meaningless sex into an allegory for the precious pointlessness of life. His snaphots of shore leave develop into a richly tragic panorama contrasting the brevity of life and its deceptive pleasures with the drifting nothingness of the the void.

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