This is a recent colaboration between myself and Jack Masters
Lyrics
Band? I write lyrics and try to find someone to write the music.
Story behind the song
A sea song
Lyrics
Die Young
Verse:
Freed from its crucible
Death was inevitable
Avoided the night watchman’s log
Her bell once a flower
Tolled sullen and sour
Bade the lantern farewell to the fog
Chorus:
Raise him up, lay him down
Yiddle de diddle die young
On a shore far away
The sea having won
Yiddle de diddle die young
Verse:
Grasp the nights shoulder
The locks final closure
Overboard from the ship’s yawing
Warmth cools in grey
Dark folds the main stay
The helmsman drowns a’ clawing
Chorus: [Repeat]
Verse:
Seal breath from its breathing
Heal my heart from this meaning
New widows wander the town
The cleaver needs culling
The carriage needs pulling
As the good ship drinks from the sound
Chorus: [Repeat]
Verse:
She'll take home a sailer
For every lost prayer
When seaworthy turns to a sieve
He'll drift to the bottom
Taking all life got him
A song, some rum, and a shiv
Chorus [Repeat]
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