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Naufragia

from Sigogglin by Swamp

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THE FLAG OF CONVENIENCE above rows of rusty containers
View in the morning: horizon line swallowed by red sky
Bad information, a system of accidents waiting
Out on the ocean, job insecurity in the wind

No one will ever know
Go where good sailors go
No one will ever know

Forced into service: no wages, no food, and no way out
A storm closing in now on a voyage doomed from the beginning
The cargo is shaking and still they must stick to the schedule

No one will ever know
Go where good sailors go
Down

Ships carrying and crewed by the kidnapped and press-ganged, names that we’ll never learn
Attribute it to the human element, that’s easy for some to say
Those who make the profits will wash their hands of suffering
And water eats the evidence, drowns responsibility
Attributed to the human element

It’s flooding below decks, the engine’s failed, soon there’s nothing but
Acceptable losses. Everywhere, every year, it’s just business.

No one will ever know
Go where good sailors go
Down

There's a seabird alighting upon an island of trash
There's a windowless room no one enters where the bankers boxes loom
Somewhere a bottle is smashed and a ship tumbles out
and money changes shadowy hands and it happens again

Bodies sink, merchandise floats

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from Sigogglin, released December 30, 2023

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