24,000 Horses
Written by Danny Michel
Arranged by Rob Carli
lyrics
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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