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So Long My Captain

by Alaska

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1.
The North 04:41
They say that he doesn't have sympathy They say that he lives through apathy He loved himself a woman whom he gave everything He loved himself a woman whom he thought was comforting What about songs I know you sung? What about words I know you heard? He spends his nights drinking heavily Hoping to drink away her memory He says he’s done as a he toasts to himself Another one saying, “Hopefully I’ll forget what she was to me.” What about songs I know you sung? What about words I know you heard? Jealousy was the last of me and my feelings I didn’t like the way they twisted my insides Drinking stupid and new tattoos Is the only way I’ll ever get through The sickness that’s inside my head Drinking stupid with thoughts of you Is the only way I ever got to The sickness of wishing that I were dead.
2.
Empty Words 02:41
He’s writing himself to hell With empty words that he can’t tell anyone one When does darkness start to look like his friend? (Let a bullet clear my head) And he’s scared of the sun Weigh him down with everything he isn't And only feel sorry when he Takes what he feels is all that’s left of himself So he’ll sail himself away Only to find a better place For his head that is now filled with regret For loving so easily someone that broke him simply. Ribcages are so worthless When our hearts still get broken So take my spine, I said, “I’ll be fine Who needs a spine when they’ve lost their mind?”
3.
2:00 a.m. and we can feel the darkness creeping in As we lie naked and bare 2:00 a.m. and I realized my mistake Knowing you’ll never love my skin again So I’ll sing to you slow And I’ll tap the drum that lays inside your ear Whisper slow so you hear every word I’ll make sure you hear me when I say, “I hate your insides.” Is there a better way to find myself inside your mind? Considering you’re whispering, whispering the wrong name to me Is there a better way to find myself in my own mind? Because I know I’m typical, I know I’m typically original
4.
“Sit down, have a seat,” that’s what you said to me I felt the words sink into a mind that’s on the brink Of destroying itself, and alcohol never helps Because no matter how much I drank, your face would never fade, away So your voice and words ring, “Darling you don’t mean a thing” And I’ll ask you to come clean about the man you have been seeing You laughed as you said, “I slept in more than one bed.” That image will remain in my head and I can no longer take this. (I will kill what is left of me, whatever exists) So hello to sin, to lying, to the end And so long my captain, my lover, my friend.
5.
Oh what a mess you made of my head making me feel like I am nothing Oh what a mess I made of you instead spilling your guts all over in my head You did the same to me in our bed telling me that our love meant nothing And I’m not much better Because I think much darker About your soft smooth skin I dream about making it end I know I don’t fade away so easily from your mind (Everyone knows he’s alone) You come in to watch me sleep and take my lungs away (Everyone knows he’s alone) You took my lungs, and you watched me sleep. (And you took my lungs) He’s alone
6.
Vigilaveris 03:42
When you woke up did you feel the same? When you woke up did you expect a change? Don’t be stupid boy, it’s all the same Don’t be stupid boy, forever and always doesn’t exist Don’t we all wake up to The darkness on the other side of the room? Well I’m amazed at the way you speak phrases Did you know you were whispering the wrong name, did you dear? Did you hear me when I said, “Did you dear?” Did you hear me? (I hate your guts) I hate the way you touch me (I’ll call you clutch) for coming in at the right time to kill me (You took my soul) broke it in two and then prayed to a God you barely knew (I’m sick and tired) of being blue so I wrote a song to erase you We all know that forgiveness comes at a cost Send me a sign, can’t you see that I’m lost?
7.
Port 01:45
I lost my lungs in a song that I sung, and I stayed the same How was your trip to Northern England, did you stay the same? Rumor is you lost part of yourself along the way Not so many know you lost so much so long ago I am a slave to the call of your name, I am a slave I’ll sail away, I’ll sail away, I’ll sail away So I hear it is oceans that never sleep Making them the best company for the lonely So I’ll go and find myself a home and I think I will be free from the thought of you and me forever I’ll sail away, I'll sail away, I'll sail away (I am a slave to the call of your name, I am a slave)
8.
He broke in new shoes With hopes they’d take him places he’s never been to Then slowly learned That everything is the same to him So he loved someone new And she only showed him he is alone Yes, he tried so hard to erase the scar from the woman he loved so “I’ll go where I hear oceans never sleep Making them the best company.” I hear oceans never sleep Making them the best company for the lonely He slowly learned that the ocean is the loneliest thing When you go alone, well you learn to, learn to die slow He wrote to her something new (He wrote he’d fade away, in a beautiful endless grave) That he loved her slow (And the memory of his name, will slowly fade away.) Yes he tried so hard but the world is a dark place, yes now he will sink away Now he sings in oceans that never sleep And you can hear him from shore It starts off a scream but then ends peacefully When he sings his song for the lonely I’ll waste away, under waves You’ll hear me say, you’ll hear “I wrote a song for the lonely only so she’d hear me And I don’t think she heard a thing I will fade away from her memory and I will sink I would have done anything for her, ironically She’s what killed me, killed me, killed me." "I wrote a song for the lonely only so she’d hear me And I don’t think she heard a thing Now I will fade to the bottom of seas And I will sing her name forever I’ll waste away”

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This is our debut full length.

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released December 1, 2013

All lyrics written by Logan Boyle
Written and performed by Alaska

Recorded with Avery Black
Engineered and Mixed by Avery Black
Mastered by Mat Halliday at Minx Recording Studio

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Alaska Brighton, Michigan

Punk/Whatever band from the Mitten. Now named Drowned Out
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