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Santa Maria Lyrics
let me off this boat
i'm sick of this ride
the world is heading ever southward
and i can't stay in here
and you're lying awake
away on your side
the feeling comes in waves and burns us
and i don't want to die
from the slippery hands
to the line of your throat
the fever now consumes us both
in fire now we will go
santa maria
why did you have to go?
santa maria
one day we will know
in a bowing of heads
and a passing of hands
all we thought they'd understand
is lost and they won't know
and what have we left?
it's all that we've got
there is no 'x' to mark our spot
what's past is done and gone
santa maria
why did you have to burn?
santa maria
one day you will learn
i'm sick of this ride
the world is heading ever southward
and i can't stay in here
away on your side
the feeling comes in waves and burns us
and i don't want to die
to the line of your throat
the fever now consumes us both
in fire now we will go
why did you have to go?
santa maria
one day we will know
and a passing of hands
all we thought they'd understand
is lost and they won't know
it's all that we've got
there is no 'x' to mark our spot
what's past is done and gone
why did you have to burn?
santa maria
one day you will learn
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As the comment above show, it's been introduced as being about both the ship and Egon Schiele.
An the more I thought about it, the more the two stories have similarities but are told in the song.
The basic thing that ties them together is that the ship went down with billions of gold and one survivor - Egon Schiele's wife died at his side while 6 months pregnant. To him that left him alone, and all of his treasure - his wife and unborn child, were gone.
The ship has no 'x' to mark its spot, neither is there an 'x' to mark Schiele, his wife and child's passing. Schiele was only 28 when he died, so his potential career and works of art if he lived would be similar to the ship's treaseure being lost too.
Glen has said quite often that this song is about the death of Egon Schiele - as he lay in bed with spanish flu, knowing that he was dying and that his lover was dying before him.
I kinda figure that Sickbeds is the same really,
Hmm... I heard that it was about the wreck of the Santa Maria off Ireland... with only one survivor.
Although I did get that from a possibly dodgy source...
Glen has offered both of the above explanations for the song - the Egon Schiele one being the most oftenly used.
Once though, Glen simple introduced the song by saying...
"This song is about a ship".
The Santa Maria De La Rosa, one of the Spanish Armada ships sheltering from the weather off the coast of Kerry in Ireland in 1588, struck some rocks and sank, leaving only one survivor, and the equivalent of billions of pounds worth of gold on the sea bed - most of which still lies unrecovered.
The live version of this song on "Set List" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Glen has mentioned he wrote this because of an album he listened to quite a bit...I don't remember the artist...but I think it was titled "Music for Egon Schiele."
that band would be rachel's, an instrumental band. great classical sounding stuff, with an indie kind of twist to it.
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/RACHL/disc.php