They just came out with a new Johnny Cash album and this song has one of the most casually bisexual lyrics I've ever heard
The world's half full of women
And the world's half full of men
And sometimes one or the other
Opens up to let one in
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[Chorus]
I crashed before the birth of Christ
Pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989
Want to get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape
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from Wikipedia:
On February 12, 1983 the ship Marine Electric was carrying a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia to a power station in Somerset, Massachusetts. The worst storm in forty years blew up that night, and the ship sank at about four o'clock in the morning on February 13. The ship's chief mate, 59-year-old Robert M. "Bob" Cusick, was trapped in the deckhouse as the ship went down. His snorkeling experience helped him avoid panic and swim to the surface, but he was left to spend the night alone on a partially deflated lifeboat he eventually reached, in water barely above freezing and air much colder. Huge seas washed over him, and each time he was not sure that he would ever reach the surface again to breathe. Battling hypothermia, he was tempted to allow himself to fall unconscious and be washed away. Just then he remembered the concluding stanzas of "The Mary Ellen Carter".[8]
And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
Rise again, rise again—though your heart it be broken
Or life about to end.
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend,
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
As Cusick tells in One Warm Line, a documentary about Rogers, he started to sing it and soon was alternately shouting out "Rise again, rise again" and holding his breath as the seas washed over him.[9][10] At seven o'clock that morning a Coast Guard helicopter spotted him and pulled him to safety.[8] Only three men of the thirty-four who had been aboard survived the wreck. After his ordeal, Cusick wrote a letter to Stan Rogers telling him what had happened and crediting the song with saving his life. In response, Rogers invited Cusick to attend what turned out to be the second-to-last concert Rogers ever performed. Cusick lived another 30 years, and his testimony and activism in the aftermath of the accident spurred far-reaching maritime safety reforms.[11]
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By the time you read these words there will be no more war, for me
There will be only peace
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https://open.spotify.com/track/1W4r9RWurY15DvneihbXmu?si=Dk5COKpmQveVmB-hRoIxKQ&dl_branch=1
For whatever reason I’ve seen this under a lot of titles online
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Pique la baleine
Pour retrouver ma douce amie
Oh mes boués, ouh là ouh là là.
Pour retrouver ma douce amie
Oh mes boués, ouh là ouh là là,
Pique la baleine, joli baleinier
Pique la baleine, je veux naviguer.
Aux mille mers j'ai navigué.
Des mers du nord aux mers du sud.
Je l'ai retrouvée quand j'm'ai noyé.
Dans les grands fonds, elle m'espérait.
Tous deux ensemble on a pleuré.
En couple à elle j'm'suis couché.
English
Lance the whale
To find my sweet love again,
Oh my boys, oh la la.
To find my sweet love again,
Oh my boys, oh la la,
Lance the whale, jolly whalerman,
You lance the whale, I'll steer.
I have sailed a thousand seas.
From the northern seas to the southern.
I found her again when I drowned.
In the deeps, she was longing for me.
Together we cried.
In her embrace, I lay down.
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