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Inlet
01:08
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Khlebnikov
04:16
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We roll back and forth
Dodging icebergs, changing course
Along the broken fjord
Everything's screwed to the floor
It’s the end of the line, there's nothing left
In the sled dog’s frozen breath
The sun burns the moon away
The constellations hide their face
Back to the Khlebnikov
For hot soup and vodka shots
Songs with cosmonauts
We'll dance to Rachmaninoff
Aboard Khlebnikov
The icebergs roll in the broken light
The humpback blows a kiss goodnight
With harpoon scars and lonely eyes
My heart breaks open wide
The faint smell of cigarettes
The sun here, it never sets
A black sea and a silver sky
The constellations liquify
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3. |
24,000 Horses
03:56
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I waited & wondered
If the dream would return
What I saw through that porthole
Is tattooed and burnt
On the shore where we landed
3 graves by the sea
In the loneliest place
You ever did see
I sing the verses
You sing the chorus
With 24,000 old Russian horses
We crush through the ice
In the bright summer night
On the Kapitan Khlebnikov
This is the life
Seal skins drying
In the bright frozen sun
There's mouths to be fed
The work’s never done
Through the Northwest Passage
I stand at the bow
And I thought I’d seen beauty
Until right here right now
Once we had dreams
But they fell through the seams
Like the ice here all melting away
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4. |
Homeless
02:35
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I woke up sleeping in the midnight sun
We were underway and overcome
For 18 days and 20 tons
We crushed through them one by one
This ancient glacier ice
These brand new shades of blue
Homeless here on a frozen sea
Something’s got a hold on me.
The icy tombs at Qilakitsoq
Mummified and overlooked
A sweet young baby in a reindeer skin
Tonight I feel a bit like him
The narwhal sings below
Songs of love and woe
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Lifeboat (for Paul)
04:44
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I thought you were in theirs
They thought you were in mine
In the panic & shuffle
Were you left behind?
When the boats hit the water
We called out your name
We floated in silence
Helpless and shamed
Reach out in the night
Take hold of my hand
This lifeboat is loaded
There's no sign of land
I heard your voice,
sing "Whole Of The Moon"
In the darkest of nights
I still hear that tune
Your jagged voice
Tangled and torn
Called out for help,
In the eye of the storm
A lighthouse for others
Others battered and worn
You brought us all back
Home safe and warm
Hold onto something
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6. |
Qilakitsoq
04:02
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Уж небо осенью дышало
The sky with autumn’s breath is clouded
Уж реже солнышко блистало
More often now the sun is shrouded
Короче становился день
Shorter and shorter grow the days
Лесов таинственная сень
Sad rustling fills the woodland ways
С печальным шумом обнажалась
With all their mysteries laid bare
Стоял ноябрь уж у двора
November stands at the gate
Ложился на поля туман
Southward stretch the caravans
Гусей крикливых караван
Of wild geese, in noisy clans
Тянулся к югу: приближалась
And, mist on meadows everywhere
Довольно скучная пора
A tedious season is here
Лесов таинственная сень
Sad rustling fills the woodland ways
С печальным шумом обнажалась
With all their mysteries laid bare
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8. |
The Dishwasher's Dream
03:25
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Сяду я верхом на коня
I ride, here astride this steed
Ты неси по полю меня
You carry me across these fields
По бескрайнему полю моему
Across these, my endless fields
По бескрайнему полю моему
Across these, my endless fields
A frozen scarlet sunset in the snow
I ride across the fields of my home
As far as I can see, starlight over me
never will I ever be alone
Дай-ка я разок посмотрю
Let me just this once have a glimpse
Где рождает поле зарю
Where these fields give birth to the dawn
Ай, брусничный цвет, алый да рассвет
Oh, the cranberry scarlet
colour of the sunrise
Али есть то место, али его нет.
Could this place be real, alas perhaps not
Ай брусничный цвет, алый да рассвет
Oh, the cranberry scarlet
colour of the sunrise
Али есть то место, али его нет
Could this place be real, alas perhaps not
In spring thaw the orchard blooms to life
The winding river leads home to my wife
With flowers in her hair
She sleeps without a care
In Mother Russia’s golden morning light
But alas it’s just a dream
I wake up here at sea
On Khlebnikov breaking through the night
Ай, брусничный цвет, алый да рассвет
Oh, the cranberry scarlet
colour of the sunrise
Али есть то место, али его нет
Could this place be real, alas perhaps not
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9. |
Down Down Down
03:11
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Down Down Down we go
Into the belly here far below
Through the kitchen & down the hatch
Past the boilers & the grease traps
Down Down Down we go
Don’t dare call this ship a boat
I dance with the crew on a steel floor
I haven't a care in this world no more
Down Down Down some more
Out of the light & far from shore
The polar bear with his yellow hide
The cigarette-stained frozen skies
Down Down Down
That poor old world above
Running so low on love
Down Down Down
Sailing through it’s melting tears
The glacier disappears
Down Down Down we go
With a bread crumb trail of pistachios
No one will find you or hear you shout
Lose your way & you'll never get out
Down Down Down we go
Out of minds and in from the snow
Vladimir turns 58 today
We eat sardines & celebrate
Down Down Down some more
The anchors slice the ocean floor
Don’t get caught whistling a tune
Or it's up and overboard with you
Down Down Down again
One last time, goodbye my friends
With a sailor's grip and a polar tan
Vertigo dreams of the motherland
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10. |
Outlet
01:35
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