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Nautical disaster
I had this dream where I relished the fray
and the screaming filled my head all day.
It was as though I'd been spit here, settled
in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some
rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.
One afternoon, four thousand men died in
the water here and five hundred more were
thrashing madly, as parasites might in your
blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for
ten and ten only, anything that systematic
would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a
test nor a love of something fated. The
selection was quick, the crew picked and
those left in the water got kicked off our
pantleg and we headed for home.
Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
you doing alright he said it's out there most
days and nights, but only a fool would
complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our
conversation is as faint as a sound in my
memory, as those fingernails scratching on
my hull.
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Sidebar
A radio single
Performed Grace, too and
Nautical Disaster on Saturday
Night Live, March 25th, 1995
Fine nautical themed songs.
Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck
of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers.
Old and new nautical songs.
Setlist slang - Nautical
Sounds
WAV file 30 seconds
Real Audio file 30 seconds
RA courtesy of Universal Music Canada
If you have the Day For Night
HyperCD go to the Day For
Night Video page and view
Nautical disaster.
Nautical disaster video info
Production Company -
The Revolver Film Company
Director - Mark Williams
Producer - Alvaro Acosta
DOP – Roy Pike
Editor – Lorenzo Massa
Time – 4:40
Released in 1995
Shot with our old university
friend, Mark Williams. The band
sequences were shot in Kingston.
The boat shots were taken on the
Toronto Island Ferry.
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