Lyrics
The SS Portland steamed past Fort Gorges, a smudge of coal on gray.
You bought a ticket with the last of your cannery pay.
The air tasted of metal, the salt freezing on the rail.
November twenty-sixth, you promised you couldn't fail.
[Chorus]
And I won, I got the last word in.
The hindsight prize for where I should've been.
[Verse 2]
"It's just to Portland," you laughed, the steam clouding the glass.
A two-day turn, this bit of weather would pass.
I saw the Plimsoll line sitting heavy in the chop,
Felt the barometric pressure in my own throat drop.
[Bridge]
Now I transcribe the logs of ships that never made the shore.
I know the language of the waves outside my Portland door.
[Chorus]
And I won, I got the last word in.
The hindsight prize for where I should've been.
[Outro]
A smudge of coal on gray.
The tide comes in anyway.
About Fen Hollins
Fen Hollins was raised by a single mother who worked the line at a Maine fish cannery, a reality that seeps into the bones of her music. Her songs, written on a vintage Juno-60 synthesizer in a small Portland apartment overlooking the sea, are love letters to a fisherman who, like the tide, always leaves and always returns. To pay rent, she spends her days transcribing the logs of 19th-century…
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