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Re: Submarine Music

Author:Jonathan Hendry
Posted:8/17/2000; 11:14:56 AM
Topic:Submarine Music
Msg #:19784 (In response to 19781)
Prev/Next:19783 / 19785

Thomas Dolby has one too, called 'One Of Our Submarines'. It's on his best-of collection Retrospectacle, and on his album 'The Golden Age Of Wireless'.

(From www.thomas-dolby.com)

One of our submarines is missing tonight
Seems she ran aground on manoeuvres
One of our submarines

A hungry heart
To regulate their breathing
One more night
the Winter Boys are freezing in their spam time
The Baltic moon
Along the northern seaboard
And down below
The Winter Boys are waiting for the storm

Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Shallow water - channel and tide

And I can trace my history
Down one generation to my home
In one of our submarines
One of our submarines

The red light flicker, sonar weak
Air valves hissing open
Half her pressure blown away
Flounder in the ocean
See the Winter Boys
Drinking heavy water from a stone

Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Shallow water - channel and tide
Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Tired illusion drown in the night

And I can trace my history
Down one generation to my home
In one of our submarines
One of our submarines
One of our submarines

One of our submarines is missing tonight
Seems she ran aground on manoeuveres
One of our submarines

I suspect the 'spam time' bit is supposed to be 'spam tin': 'the Winter Boys are freezing in their spam tin', as if the sailors are packed into a small metal container.

Also, Dolby uses the phrase "spam tin" in another song.

(Then again, you'd think he'd catch a transcription error on his own site.)

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