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Teignmouth Electron

by Sea Lungs

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A crow it cackled twice upon the day he was named Dipped a wing and turned its body back to wheel about in the spray They gathered on the bluffs to see him away There in the vessel that the township had claimed A man dishevelled by the spectre of doubt The bottle blunted as they wheeled her out -- Endlessly affronted by the wind and the waves A tiny blip upon the blue the Teignmouth Electron was splayed And yet he harboured a plan He was just a man A trimaran Cast adrift for seven months and seventeen days Burdened by the whispers so confounding that they led him astray It’s an impossible plan He was just a man A trimaran -- Hushed face, scalded balls, girded for an ocean bash Listing in the gale, such a travail in which he’s fixed to the mast They gathered by the wireless every day Amidst the static no connection remained A man dishevelled by the spectre of doubt The ocean wavered as he stepped on out -- Endlessly affronted by the wind and the waves A tiny blip upon the blue the Teignmouth Electron was splayed And yet he harboured a plan He was just a man A trimaran Cast adrift for seven months and seventeen days Burdened by the whispers so confounding that they led him astray It’s an impossible plan He was just a man A trimaran -- Choked by the weeds set here as drapery Becalmed in all but there internally A second level cosmic being. It’s a denouement in Sargasso sea Becalmed in all but there internally He sees the nature of the mercy He sees the nature of the mercy It is the mercy.
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Circling as in ellipses Pissed and reeking of the crime Cephaeline, entwined in ditches Blessed to row above the rime We’d not the breath to ever stop for death So he kindly came and stopped for me It weren’t my soul he sought to drag on home Just a portion of my lay --- Trade winds, blue fins, gas lamp streets Land grab, back stab, salt slab Soiled my sheets New moon, dawn blooms, fortunes Multiplied Earth shakes, day breaks, Neptune wakes Bleary eyed --- Squall blows in, nail down the hatches Children washed up by the tide Paper thin and now redacted Latitudes we sought to find Gin crazed in doorways Pockets fat now, filled with plums Mildewed, fish food Grip the pulpit, speed us on Speed us on.

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released November 10, 2023

Sea Lungs are:
Jarrad Robertson & Andi Lennon
with the assistance of Dase Beard

Mixed by Matt Dawkins
Mastered by Ant Banister

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Sea Lungs Melbourne, Australia

Sea Lungs spin tales of Gin-soaked dockside demise. Bearing witness to the fall of a perverse empire and dancing to the sounds of the death rattle.

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