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Song in the Sea

from Failure Ballads by Science Club

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The following are facts about this song: yes, it was inspired by Ecco the Dolphin. No, I did not have a friend named Kennedy when I was growing up. I was thinking of my friend Sarah, but her name didn’t fit the rhyme scheme and I am a bad songwriter. This is the first original song Science Club ever played together.

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I was fifty thousand feet over the Pacific when masks fell from overhead seems some faulty wires crammed beneath our plunging cabin had finally overheated and god save that valiant crew who did all they could to keep us in the sky and calm the passengers who were plagued with panic we are going to die we are all going to die [While] we fell from the sky I thought back to my childhood in 1993 playing Sega Genesis in my basement with my good friend Kennedy skipping our swim lesson where some lifeguard would tell us how this would save our lives I bet that high school girl working for five bucks an house never knew she would be so right and as our plane crashed down we fell into the sea the further you go the less you can see (in retrospect, rhyming “sea” with “see” is pretty lame.) my mother and my father brothers family they all did fade away I don’t want to die this way The crash threw me out into the ocean where a current pushed me up toward the warm noon sun and I am adrift for now but I will soon swim to where no songs have yet been sung

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from Failure Ballads, released March 5, 2012

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Science Club Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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