Missy Higgins - Shark Fin Blues lyrics
[Missy Higgins - Shark Fin Blues lyrics]
Standing on the deck watching
My shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down
I see the sharks out in the
Water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger
Than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly
By the campfire light
See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings
While he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries
From his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop
The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley
Like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and
He says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in
Well you are all my brothers
And you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find?
Now your eyes turn inwards
Countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the
Sea and sky remain na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be?
Cause if I cry another tear
I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me
They don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man
You best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until
The whole boat sinks fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
My shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down
I see the sharks out in the
Water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger
Than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly
By the campfire light
See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings
While he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries
From his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop
The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley
Like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and
He says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in
Well you are all my brothers
And you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find?
Now your eyes turn inwards
Countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the
Sea and sky remain na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be?
Cause if I cry another tear
I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me
They don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man
You best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until
The whole boat sinks fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na