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lyrics

Seventeen ships set sail that day
The sea dull green the sky was gray
I wish I’d seen you before I slept
I dreamt about you as darkness crept in

On my eyes that strained to creep
Around your body weighed down by sleep
I heard the canon I saw the spark
I knew hard iron would splinter our bark

But only fragments of you I saw
Pennies on eyes I counted four
Fourteen sailors came fourteen dead
Fifteen the gull cries of you in my head

Why do you weep?
You’ll feel love again
Well up your tears for living men
Why do you weep?
You’ll feel love again

Heard I the gush and the hull was rent
That day to darkness I was sent down
Down through the blue that became the black
I saw you sitting my heart grew slack
I saw you sipping a glass through a straw
from a bowl full of lemons sat down on the floor
But your ears were deaf to my bubbles of breath
I fearful inhaled a forgetful death

I loved you more than even my sight
I loved you more

Why do you weep?
You’ll feel love again
Well up your tears for living men
Why do you weep?
You’ll feel love again

Seventeen ships set sail that day
The sea dull green the sky was gray
I wish I’d seen you before I slept
I dreamt about you when darkness crept in

credits

from The Girl with the Secret Fire, released March 29, 2019
Vocals: Tamara Parsons-Baker
Piano: Ben Walker
Drums: Emma Coombs
Bass: Tom Rawicz
Violin: Ben Heaney

Produced by: Tamara Parsons-Baker and Richard Neuberg
Lyrics taken from a poem by Henry Stead
Mixed and Engineered by: Richard Neuberg
Mastered by: Tim Turan

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Death of the Maiden Oxford, UK

Death of the Maiden produce gothy baroque-pop, post-punk music. If that description makes you want to vomit 1) yeah, it should 2) swallow it.

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