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Twitter users are likely aware that today is of course Music Monday. My contribution for the week is coming from the Vancouver-based indie-rock band Said the Whale. Curse of the Currents is found on the band’s 2008 album Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia; the album is actually a re-release of the band’s 2007 debut album “Taking Abalonia” with the addition of 7 new “Howe Sounds” songs. The band is currently riding a huge wave of momentum they’ve built up over the last year, with the release of their “The Magician” EP on July 1st and their latest album Islands Disappear on October 13th. For more from the band, check out some of our previous posts below.
Said the Whale -- Gentleman (Mashup)
Said the Whale -- The Magician (Camilo)
Said the Whale -- This City’s a Mess
Just fifteen miles from shore
I lost the love that I had
Slipped and fell into the cold
Of the deep and the dark below
Big wave, small boat
We tipped, I froze
My hands were ice, my feet were stone
I could not throw the rope
I caught her eye as she dipped down with a wave
I jumped in but I was too late
Fighting with the currents of the Georgia Strait
Fighting with the wind and the tide and the waves
I lost my love that day
I touched her fingers as she breathed out my name
She smiled at me, I watched her fade away
To the deep and the dark of the underwave
To the Currents of the Georgia Strait
And here it’s been ten years to the day
And here I’ll sit for a hundred years and I’ll wait
Till I see her smiling face
Come shining up through the waves
On the shore, in the rain I’ll wait
Till I see my love again
I pray to God, I curse my luck, I question my faith
I curse my empty hearted fate
And I curse the wind and the tide and the waves
And I curse the currents of the Georgia Strait
Where I lost my love that day
Where I lost my heart
To the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait
It’s the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait
Related posts:
- Said the Whale – This City’s a Mess
- Said the Whale – The Magician (Camilo)
- Said the Whale – Gentleman (Mashup)
- Noah and the Whale – The First Days of Spring
- Language Arts – Where Were You in the Wild
