Crimson Dawn

Seth Lakeman

One fateful night,
Well I woke to hear that sound
Like a gunshot,
With both windows shaking loud.
Great lengthy cries that came racing through the sky,
From a fearsome wreck,
A great dagger stuck in her deck.

(chorus)
Crimson Dawn,
My heart was torn,
A midnight rescue we were called upon,
A freedom fire with burning eyes,
A figure tangled up in turning tides

so I cut her free and find....

This floating town it'd broke up, run aground
When the call came out to put fair Charlotte in
So we ploughed those waves
With a hundred left to save
In the fading light, well I held on strong and tight

(chorus)

ill stay with you 'til the morning light
In the turning tide
Ill set you free

sharp rocks we braved,
For the last hand I would save,
It was a beauty fair
With wild and tangled hair,
Thick rope entwined well I cut her free and find
That your fast embrace, well I held her face to face.

(chorus)

so I cut her free and find
In turning tides
So I cut her free and find
In turning tides
Ill stay with you 'til the morning light
Ill set you free

it was a fateful night when I woke to hear that sound
Like a gunshot, with both windows shaking loud.



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    This one is pretty clear, the entire song is about a sea rescue. A ship containing over a hundred people need to be rescued from the sea. The "gunshot' at the beginning is the sound of the crash. Fair Charlotte is the Life Boat that carried the narrator and the other rescuers. The last person the narrator rescued was a beautiful woman who needed to be cut free. My impression is that the narrator may have fell in love with her but set her free both physically and metaphorically (ie, knew he couldn't have her}

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