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Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)

Sinking Ship

The R.E.M. phase, on tape.

Unreleasedalbum

1988released

1988

on a friday

A late-1980s demo that Stereogum described as the band trying on an R.E.M. influence, which most English guitar groups of that moment did at least once. Seven years later they would be opening for them.

the video

A recording of a song they never released.· matheus sonic orlandiwatch on youtube →

details

Type	Unreleased/live-only
Live	no performance on file

Never officially released. What is known of it comes from fan tapes and fan archives, and it is left out of the catalogue counts.

lyrics

hard to port
I can feel the boat
it's harboring unto her brown
sinking ship, man the lifeboats
hold your nose, watch me drown

I'm the captain of the boat
but I don't like being slaughtered
I'm the captain of the boat
but I don't like this way I'm slaughtered

hey I'm a sinking man
on a sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

I'm sinking now
on the sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

don't waste all your days
pretending that you're still afloat
time comes, you will see
that all this drowning is your own

I'm the captain of the boat
but I don't like being slaughtered
I'm the captain of the boat
but I don't like this way I'm slaughtered

hey I'm a sinking man
on a sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

I'm sinking now
on the sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

don't waste all your days
pretending that you're still afloat
time comes, you will see
that all this drowning is your own

hey I'm a sinking man
on a sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

I'm sinking now
on the sinking ship
and this stinking bloody job is all I have

I'm sinking man

let's get our act together
and get this boat off of the shore

sources1

The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and Citizen Insane.

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