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Maid of the Seas

by Clipper

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Instrumental
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Breaks the Morning Light It's raining fire in the South West Pouring Down from the black sky Burning through the darkest night And breaks the morning light It's raining bodies in the South West Falling through the troposphere Dead in fields like scarecrows Death is lit by the morning light It's raining dollars in the South West On their heels in their trench coats Watching from the sky for those Who dare show the morning light
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December Song On the twenty first of December At home for the Christmas break That's when I heard on the radio That the Maid of the Seas was down Down on the hills West of Langholm Down in the fire and the mud Down all over the border These fields have seen so much blood The nights are long in December Murder cut the days short Of the bright young hopefuls of Syracuse Springtime lost Down in the dark night December Down in the blood and the fire In the mirror there's only darkness Where once I spoke as a child Down in the dark night December Down in the Sark and Dryfe Sands Down and blown in Copshaw Holm And still there's blood on our hands
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Katie's Knowe Up on Katie's Knowe the clipper it has fallen And inside a heart still beating Beats just for a moment, then gone like the others And no more hearts beat Across the black Atlantic They wait for her in JFKThey're waiting for the winter snow Across the North Atlantic They've still only questions Where is Washington and Trafalgar Square? Katie's Knowe bears witness Always with the Clipper Bearing her scar tissue Breathing the last breath that lingers on the hillside And blows through the dry red leaves Across the black Atlantic They wait for her in JFK They're waiting for the winter snow Across the North Atlantic They've still only questions Where is Washington and Trafalgar Square?
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Captain MacQuarrie Captain MacQuarrie sails his ship Into the night, into the dark That's where he's sailing every night By Tundergarth, by the church yard Trying to sail his stricken ship to the shore Dashed upon the rocks, he sails No more Captain MacQuarrie sails his ship Into the night, into the dark That's where he's sailing every night By Tundergarth, in the dark
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Autumn Leaves What's that blowing in the Autumn leaves? That's the wild wars deadly blast blowing in the Autumn leaves What's that lying in the Autumn leaves? That's a Toshiba Bombeat ghetto blaster lying in the Autumn leaves What's that lying in the desert Sun? That's the PFLP-GC lying in the desert Sun What's that lying in the desert Sun? That's the USS Vincennes lying in the desert Sun Autumn leaves fall down What's that lying in the Autumn leaves? That's the strong medication lying in the Autumn leaves What's that lying in the Autumn leaves? That's the Helsinki warning lying in the Autumn leaves What's that lying in the desert Sun? That's Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi lying in the desert Sun What's that lying in the desert Sun? That's a drunk man looking at the thistle lying in the desert Sun Autumn leaves fall down
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Water of Milk Pan Am 103 Leaves London Heathrow Bound for New York JFK Bombed over Lockerbie 270 Escape chute flapping in the breeze No one escapes tonight And the rain in the Water of Milk Runs down the hill to the Solway And the rain in the Water of Milk Carries the blood to the ocean Spooks creep in the fields Crawling around the hills Skeletons in Whitehall's press Edinburgh makes no sound And the rain in the Water of Milk Runs down the hill to the Solway And the rain in the Water of Milk Carries the blood to the ocean Tearing through the peaceful night Breaking up the morning light To whom belongs brown Samsonite Silhouette 4000? And the rain in the Water of Milk Runs down the hill to the Solway And the rain in the Water of Milk Carries the blood to the ocean
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Mary's House 04:06
Mary's House In the back streets of Valetta While the frescoes fade For a suitcase full of Lire Testimony's paid Pulled in by rewards for justice Mary's House is breached Justice has been bought and sold In the town of peace Basset flies in to Barlinnie In the dead of night Mary's House holds her secrets Tightly
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The Ballad of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi The high and the mighty gather for the trial In wigs and robes the colour of blood, from the Royal Mile In the hall of smoke and mirrors, puppets take the stand A stain lies upon this land A miscarriage of justice United Nations states The case loaded in Malta was full of holes and rests On a circuit of suspicion Megrahi served his time A stain lies upon my country When they brought you down to Kamp Zeist the noose was already tied Beneath the lion and unicorn, evidence denied Giaka-nory told his story with his pockets full A stain lies upon my country The high and the mighty gather for the trial In wigs and robes the colour of blood, from the Royal Mile In the hall of smoke and mirrors, puppets take the stand A stain lies upon this land
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Cancer is the Killer The killing starts with commerce arms and shady deals The killing goes on long after their needs ful filled A cancer grows in their corruption and lies A cancer grows and builds a wall of silence Cancer is the killer thats kills you and me Oh cancer is the killer that will set you free The killing goes on while the guilty walk free The killing goes on breaking down the gentle peace Cancer is the killer thats kills you and me Oh cancer is the killer that will set you free Cancer is the killer inside of me Oh cancer is the killer that sets him free The killing goes on while the guilty walk free The killing goes on while the vested interests feed A cancer grows and builds a wall of silence The voice that breaks it down comes through the silence

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released October 14, 2016

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