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Seasick
words & music by Ed Hooke, 1986   -   © Ed Hooke 1986

E P I T A P H

Really this was
a Bad Tune Men song,
which BTM
never got around to recording.

I am proud to say that
this song features
possibly the ugliest music
I have ever written.

The words were inspired in part
by a Sector 27 (Tom Robinson) B side,
whose name I have long forgotten,
about a ship-wreck

A cross
on the map
marks the spot
- away from the main navigation.

Years have passed.
No visible monument
but the tip of the tall mast
at low tide.

Dwarfed by brine
- liquid mountains
- drenched
- cold world erupting
- blind panic
grey abandon ship a-hoisted up down.

Calm now.
Pleasure boats pass unawares
and they won't wake their neighbour.

No peace beneath still waters.
Time spins on.
Sharks eat your brains.
Compelled to haunt this ocean graveyard.
I can't go on
yet can't escape.