Name: Sink (SHADOW)
Duration: P00H04M52S
Description: if you're out on the sea at night and you hear some beautiful music in the distance... maybe just ignore it.

Governing Dynamics - Sink (SHADOW)

from SpinTunes 16 Round 4 by Spintunes

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if you're out on the sea at night and you hear some beautiful music in the distance... maybe just ignore it.

lyrics

for the love of this ship
and these seas
all the blessings this crew has received
still feel a rope around my neck
that tugs me up to the deck
to hear a song under silent shining stars

turn the bow towards the flickering moonlight
your lovely voice has gone and cursed my sight
sometimes the water's not enough
until it's been touched with some blood
it could be perfect and somehow not well enough

you don't have to drag these bones along
you can leave me, just let me drink
just want to hear the end of this song
what do you think, should I swim or sink?

you erased all the pain I felt before
as my home turned to splinters on the shore
took me far too long to learn
the whole thing's rotten stem to stern
I fell fearfully to your embrace

you don't have to drag these bones along
you can leave me, just let me drink
just want to hear the end of this song
what do you think, should I swim or sink?
I'll never see home again
sailors get lost, it's not unique
Never meant to put this on my truest friends
heart's sprung a leak, I can't swim, I sink

As the light dims there's unending rest
I press my old dagger up to your chest
On this jagged stone bed
I sleep if the sleep of the dead
And with morning all will turn to mist
Now your song has been sung
And the tide greets my lungs
As the last notes fade away

credits

from SpinTunes 16 Round 4, released March 16, 2020

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