Lyrics
The Carling sign on your bottle of Rainier
Bled red across the grain of the bar that year.
The fog tasted like cold iron off the Sound,
While his ship was clearing shoals on the southbound.
You leaned in close, a whisper in the gloom,
"Don't say a word," you said, filling the room.
[Chorus]
And the lie got heavy like a shifting load!
A bad weld glowing on a broken road!
I'm screaming at the engine just to kill the sound
Of your voice a half a world and twenty fathoms down!
[Verse 2]
I'd check the gauges, watch the pressure climb,
Felt your secret burning holes in borrowed time.
Every static-laced call home across the sea,
A ton of silent freight between him and me.
That was the last good week of some forgotten October,
Before the truth rusted out and the long haul was over.
[Bridge]
And the salt eats everything you try to hide.
The clean line frays, corrodes from the inside.
[Outro]
The Carling sign's been ripped out, for all I know.
Just another ghost ship sinking in the harbor glow.
About Eddie Vetter
Eddie Vetter spent his twenties not on stage, but in the deafening engine room of a container ship, crossing the Pacific. A Filipino-American from the naval town of Bremerton, WA, he wrote his first songs on a cheap guitar in a tiny cabin to combat the crushing loneliness of the open sea. Now 38 and back on land, his brand of Seattle grunge is soaked in saltwater and stained with engine grease…
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