Foxes!

Boatswain

Album: The Panda Bear Song [2011]
Author: Adam Bell - Kayla Bell - Alan Grice - Daniel Pacrami © Elefant publishing

Oh Boatswain, clear your name

 

In the night when he falls asleep he dreams about the wire

And when he wakes up in a familiar place 

There’s no one there to conspire

 

In the cargo boxes all around the docks the roarers seek and hide

And in the vital case of having lives to save 

You can count on him for a while

 

Fall out

Don’t be last in line

When the rope breaks

You’ll be out of time

 

In his younger days he was smarter than 

The other kids in his town

But he slipped into an anxious state 

When no one else was around

 

Boatswain, 

You know it’s not too late

You’ve had a dip but 

It’s not the end of it

 

Going deeper down into the water on his own

Never having ever had to hold his breath so long

Treading through the seaweed with a glimmer in his eye

But secretly he’s terrified that he is gonna die

 

He is gonna die

He is gonna die