Skeleton Coast

from Mauritian Dreaming by Silo's Choice

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lyrics

no one played the changes
it got so bad the UN convened a special session
along abandoned incense routes
in the ergs of the empty quarter

i fell in love with my ASL interpreter
we tied the knot in the chapel of the ice hotel -
built a treetop home to raise our kids in
out where ancient boats lie bleached and hidden:
ghosts in the mills - ships on the skeleton coast

ellie never knew her mother
who worked in chile under henry kissinger
keeping CIA activity a secret

she does her best to look dignified and decent
but are we safe but what's been kept under wraps
tucked away the otago harbor treeline?
smoke on her breath - ships on the skeleton coast

ellie lost her last man to his books
but books don't throw their arms around you
as the sky turns from morning blue to morning white
snow wrapped around the trees

cincinnati city council was not pleased
with my decision to give the hyde park high school seniors LSD
but hey, someone's gotta bring those kids to life
before they go to see the special professors
mining for ore in the mind & blood on the hillside

ellie did her best to understand
shackleton's progress against the ice
it's great importance to me and my tears,
picturing scott's smile sag on finding amudsen's norwegian flag

at the lowest point on earth & then dying
they don't make failure like that where you're from
in gloucester, massachusetts
and she don't understand why i pursue it
why i hang my hopes on the dogs & the ropes:
ghosts in the malls - ships on the skeleton coast

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from Mauritian Dreaming, released March 18, 2016

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