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Shipwreck Song
02:48
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Oh! Brother here
Waiting on the eastern shore
Oh! Sister dear
Tell me what you’re waiting for
We’ve been tossed about
Freezing on the eastern shore
Waves that spat us out
Tell me what you’re freezing for
As I lay clinging to the mast
Ears still ringing from the blast
Looked up to the swirling stars that swore that they would guide us
Now gone, swallowed by the moon, tugged at the sheets to hide us
In this cloudy place
Where no one knows your name when they see your face
Go rescue him
Drowning on the eastern shore
It’s sink or swim
So tell me what you’re drowning for
We have fought the fight
Clinging to the eastern shore
Now we wait for night
Tell me what you’re clinging for
And when the storm came raging past
Don’t you feel you’re aging fast?
And clouds that you swore bore the shape of your own mother
Explode, everybody starts to look like one another
When the lightning hits
Your name was all you had, now it’s blown to bits
So let us begin
Living on the eastern shore
Let the players in
Tell me what you’re living for
Oh! Brother here
Waiting on the eastern shore
Oh! Sister dear
Tell me what you’re waiting for
Oh! Brother here
Waiting on the eastern shore
Oh! Sister dear
Tell me what you’re waiting for
Tell me what you’re waiting for
Tell me what you’re waiting for
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Shipwreck Song (Reprise)
00:59
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And if I sink into the sand
And someone thinks to take my hand
Pulls up, I may hide my face
To save myself from ruin
These days, I’m no longer just
A scrap the sea-breeze blew in
No I’m not the same
I see through different eyes
And I’ve changed my name
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What if we all just decided that we could say anything?
What if the fool with a song was stronger than a silent king?
Shatter the ceiling, dance on the walls
Pick up the mood wherever it falls
What if the dances you dance in the dark could be written down?
What if the songs that you sing in your head appeared on your crown?
Shatter the ceiling, dance on the walls
Pick up the mood wherever it falls
I’ll make plans and you’ll make plans too
Brush them off when we hear that song
We’ve got something to dance to
Something to dance to, something to dance to
Something to dance to, something to dance to
What if we all just decided that we could say anything?
What if we all just decided that we could say anything?
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I wonder how many setting suns
A person can see before they become one
And what’s gonna happen if no one sees
The light disappearing behind the trees
No one to notice, no one to say
“Please don’t take my sunshine away”
No one to stand up and fight the fight
To stop the day turning into night
Giving chase to the horizon
Love is late but I’m arising
With the day
Every day
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I wonder how many moon-soaked nights
I threw in the towel and turned out the lights
Unaware of the hole in the shape of me
In someone’s heart far across the sea
Someone to open the deadbolt door
Someone who knows what we’re living for
Someone who shines through the window pane
When all the rest of the world sees rain
Giving chase to the horizon
Love is never unsurprising
As the day
Every day
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When you saw me last
I was changing fast
You were the fisherman, I was the sea
And your line was cast
The sky is pink then blue
And I reflect its hue
You kept looking, but all that you caught
Was the feeling that you might too
Invite the sun of paradise
If this be love beneath the ice
The night is young and the daydream’s real
How does it feel?
Heaven and earth went and struck a deal
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
This little life of mine
I’m gonna let it shine
These downpours and those locked doors
Could never stop me tryin’
I spin like a great typhoon
I shift like a desert dune
I tell you a story you can remember
Like a campfire tune
Invite the sun of paradise
If this be love beneath the ice
The night is young and the daydream’s real
How does it feel?
Heaven and earth went and struck a deal
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
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