Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster Lyrics
-------------------- I had this dream where I relished the fray and the screaming filled myhead all day. It was as though I had been spit here, settled in, into the pocketof a lighthouse on some rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear. One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here and five hundredmore were thrashing madly as parasites might in your blood. Now I was in alifeboat designed for ten and ten only, anything that systematic would get youhated. It's not a deal not a test nor a love of something fated. The selectionwas quick, the crew was picked and those left in the water got kicked off ourpantleg and we headed for home. Then the dreams ends when the phone rings, you doing alright he saidit's out there most days and nights, but only a fool would complain. AnywaySusan, if you like, our conversation is as faint as a sound in my memory, asthose fingernails scratching on my hull