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