This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Albatross, albatross
How callous the ocean you cross
I, I blame you, I blame you
For all of those things I've been through
Don't feel bad don't upend
It's my neck around which you hang
Like a chain or a tag
I flinch and you fall through the cracks
To the sea and all it bears
The secrets that I should've shared
They drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
I, I blame you, I blame you
For all of those things I've been through
Don't feel bad don't upend
It's my neck around which you hang
Like a chain or a tag
I flinch and you fall through the cracks
To the sea and all it bears
The secrets that I should've shared
Drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Albatross, albatross
Which way to turn when we're lost
How callous the ocean you cross
I, I blame you, I blame you
For all of those things I've been through
Don't feel bad don't upend
It's my neck around which you hang
Like a chain or a tag
I flinch and you fall through the cracks
To the sea and all it bears
The secrets that I should've shared
They drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
I, I blame you, I blame you
For all of those things I've been through
Don't feel bad don't upend
It's my neck around which you hang
Like a chain or a tag
I flinch and you fall through the cracks
To the sea and all it bears
The secrets that I should've shared
Drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Yeah they drown in me
Albatross, albatross
Which way to turn when we're lost
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albatross' is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
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