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The Captain
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Late one night at what you wouldn´t call a respectable Inn
we found a lonely sailor soaked in saltwater and gin
Asked for his name he just murmured a vague captain title
(Looked more like a hobo to me, I thought, both eyes and hands too idle)
He claimed that he was on a route since God knows when
Tour & Retour to the shores since it all began
We couldn´t help beset him with our curious questions
He answered vaguely - alas, we became more pressing
He told us almost nothing
Just a few things about birds
circling the smokestacks, shrieking,
their sounds ghostly like words
"Why do they shriek?" we asked him
"I think they laugh at us,
stuck down here on the surface,
our struggles not enough
The biggest birds go further than any sailor dares
and if they could they´d tell us what they found out there
I think they want to warn us
I think they want to
I think from high above they see something that
makes them turn back shrieking"
We hear them long before we see them, but they surely see us
Then we asked him what cargo he brought on his route
and his glance suddenly turned both angry and brute
Then he gulped from his drink, had a cig from his pack
"Why, I bring people there, but they never go back"
"What? They never go back? What´s that supposed to mean?"
But he turned from us all, fixed his eyes
on the screen
on the wall
We hear them long before we see them, but they surely see us
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Stalactites
05:55
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