Name: Sippican and Marion
Duration: P00H06M00S
Description: A mariner struggles with his decision to leave his life at sea for a woman after losing every other male member of his family to the icy depths. (A person second guesses)

Sippican and Marion

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A mariner struggles with his decision to leave his life at sea for a woman after losing every other male member of his family to the icy depths. (A person second guesses)

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Life if fragile comes and gos,
burying the son or brother
Sippican the middle of them
stranger letters written to lovers,

Cacophony echoes
wharf rats pleading
festooned, it reaches you
stick out your tongue till
it starts bleeding,

All thats left is a ghost of you
like a freezing fog
time is next in the gap you lost
crippled decaying god,
crippled decaying god.

god oh god I want to run away,
god oh god I want to stay,

be a longshoreman,
anyway you can
spear the whale
with another mans hands,
unfurled sail,
cant stop pushing
step by step
in this time machine

Wish I could be
everywhere wish I,
wish I could be
everywhere.

god oh god I want to run away,
god oh god I want to stay,
dreams are vastly freezing hands,
the dead will make me play:

Her cheeks were red
from the salty midnight air
never should have stepped off shore
a rogue
broadside wave
all is lost

Salt toughened skin
and his wolf-like eyes
manor in the hills
everyone passes by
everyone passes
everyone's passing by.

god oh god I want to run away,
god oh god I want to stay,
man oh man I want to run away,
god oh god I want to stay.

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from BACKSTROKEFOX, track released December 1, 2011
Sam Ferg - Accordion
Byron Elhaj - Bass

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BACKSTROKEFOX is a recording project by Jason Walker. Based in the sticks of Michigan nearest to Kalamazoo.

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