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Bodies stacked like timbers
Foundered on the rocks
Some hundred lives lost
They weren't local sailors
Far away from home
Lost beneath the foam
They didn't know these waters
January cold
Flood the third hold
We watched those foreign soldiers
Taken by the tide
A fraction made it out alive
I know it's hard
But we must be kept apart
Cut off by the tide
The rocks
The reef
The beach
The mines
The sharpest shards
Breached the hull, the lungs, the heart
From the lighthouse on the reach
To the bottom of the sea
Miles off course
Miles off course
Oh I saw those timbers
Piled up on the pier
Somewhere over there
Seagulls cried and lingered
More washed up on the sand
I squeezed my father's hand
He said they had it coming
Some people never learn
They got what they deserved
I dreamed of wild adventures
Just William, Boy's Own
Not these bloated bags of bones
I know it's hard
But we must be kept apart
Cut off by the tide
The rocks
The reef
The beach
The mines
The sharpest shards
Breached the hull, the lungs, the heart
From the lighthouse on the reach
To the bottom of the sea
Miles off course
Miles off course
You can hear them singing Lili Marleen
Across the sea
While the wireless plays out that exact same song
To you and me
And if I was honest with myself, I'd say
It was hard to read
From the shoreline, which fields they had fought on
It wasn't clear to see
And if you go wading out off Portelet
And dive down sixty feet
You will find an impermanent reminder
Decaying in the deep
Miles off course
Miles off course
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