Said the Whale’s “Curse of the Currents”

This song has no immediate relevancy to what’s going on in my life right now, but it’s so striking that I wanted to make sure I had it around for the future.

Just fifteen miles from shore
I lost the love that I had
Slipped and fell into the cold
Of the deep and the dark below
Big wave, small boat
We tipped, I froze
My hands were ice, my feet were stone
And I could not throw the rope, no
I caught her eye as she dipped down with a wave
And I jumped in but I was too late
Fighting with the currents of the Georgia Strait
Fighting with the wind and the tide and the waves
I lost my love that day
I touched her fingers as she breathed out my name
She smiled at me, I watched her fade away
To the deep and the dark of the under-wave
To the currents of the Georgia Strait

And here it’s been ten years to the day
And here I’ll sit for a hundred years and I’ll wait
Till I see her smiling face
Come shining up through the waves
On the shore, in the rain, I’ll wait
Till I see my love again
I pray to God, I curse my luck, I question my faith
I curse my empty-hearted fate
And I curse the wind and the tide and the waves
And I curse the currents of the Georgia Strait
Where I lost my love that day
Where I lost my heart
To the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait
It’s the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait