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Marty Willson-piper - Wreck (A Sea Shanty) Lyrics

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  • There's a twisted piece of jagged metal
  • A broken show and a rusting kettle
  • A bed of sand in which to lie
  • A clear blue sea in which to die
  • And as the breath slips from your lungs
  • There's no more words on your swollen tongue
  • And fishes pick your melting flesh
  • Living on your recent death
  • Dawn has promised you your dreams
  • And mentioned not your unheard screams
  • Set your course in your sky blue boat
  • You couldn't guess you wouldn't float
  • Who could sink such pretty craft
  • You jeered and rolled and shrugged and laughed
  • How vicious can a colored reef
  • Bear its sharp and yellow teeth
  • Too beautiful day to die
  • Too memorable to be forgotten
  • A sea of tears to wave goodbye
  • A silent wreck to haunt the bottom
  • The ripples whimper on the surface
  • Jellyfish, transparent purses
  • Their sting the strength of hoarded gold
  • The gifts they'd buy remain unsold
  • So what's the worth of the dead's desires
  • When waterlogged are life's cold fires
  • With seaweed hair and barnacle bones
  • In the powerless court on a seashell throne
  • Back on land your loves ones' wait
  • For news that saunters in too late
  • Their salty tears mix with the sea
  • As they wait for all eternity
  • And later all that is recovered
  • A defiant ring that graced your lover
  • But to the sea now he is wed
  • In a ceremony of the dead

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