Swan Boat from Garbage Island by The Burning Hell
(Kom / Sharratt / Nicoll)
Tracklist
| 9. | Swan Boat | 3:07 |
Lyrics
Last night I had a dream
Fires gleamed like tiny diamonds
Smoke rising from the cities
A smudge on the horizon
In a relic from a park
Shaped like a swimming swan
We sailed away, we sailed away
Just like an old Enya song
Our feet on the pedals
Our fingers trailing through the blue
I was sailing on a swan boat with you
To starboard there were stars
And port we had enough of
Small waves broke on the wings
Persistent and percussive
Just beneath the waves
We heard sea monkeys calling
Phosphorescent squid
Neon Venetian dolphins
Our feet on the pedals
Our fingers trailing through the blue
I was sailing on a swan boat with you
I woke up to the creaking pedals
And saw it all was true
I’m sailing on a swan boat with you
Credits
Ariel Sharratt: vocals
Mathias Kom: guitar, vocals
Steve Sharratt: lap steel
Darren Browne: fretless bass, bouzouki
Jake Nicoll: steel drum, wine glasses
License
All rights reserved.
The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, often including additional comrades and collaborators.
Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks.