“..Smugglers smile and love you
When their ship comes in
Sailors settle only
Once the salt’s on their skin...”
-Troubadour De Twocatts.
“..Welcome to my nightmare
I think you’re gonna like it...”
- Alice Cooper
“...So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred and sixteen men came out, and the sharks took the rest. June the 29th, 1945. ..I’ll never put on a life jacket again..
- Cpt. Quint of the Orca.
“...Be mindful of the prayers you send
Pray hard but pray with care
For the tears that you are crying now
Are just your answered prayers...”
Cpt. Nick of the Bad Seed.
“ ..Sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away....”
- Otis Redding.
“... Life collided with the dream you won’t let go
Distant sirens sing the lullaby...”
- Troubadour De Twocatts
“..Don’t go lovin’ short haired women
Their gonna leave you cryin’
When you’re thinkin’ that it’s all in fun...”
- Cpt. Rawlings of the Machine.
“...My life flashed before my eyes, it was a horror to behold
A life-sentence sweeping confetti from the floor of a concrete hole...”
- Cpt. Nick of the Bad Seed.
“.. I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers over flowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin..”
- Creedance Clearwater Revival.
“He’s going the distance
He’s going for speed...”
- Cake
“...No more of your fairy stories
‘Cause I go my other worries...”
Cpt. Joey of the Ramone.
“...And you know what - you’re a goddamn Sword-Boat Captain...”
Cpt. Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gale.
“..So I’m back at the ocean
City turn to a ghost land
On my knees in the shore break
My soul to take....”
- Troubadour De Twocatts.
“Fiery, the angels fell
Deep thunder rolled around their shores
Burning with the fires of Orc...”
- William Blake.
“.. I was too cold to cry when I woke up alone
I hit my last number and walked to the road...”
- Tom Petty.
"The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea."
― Isak Dinesen
“...Below in the engine room
I’ll tell you this
That old Detroit diesel
Is sweet as a mermaid’s kiss...”
- The Lads from the Naval Band.
“ I am just going outside and may be some time.....”
Cpt. Oates, Scott’s Antarctic Expedition.
“....No reason...i just like doing things like that....”
Luther of The Rouges.
“Don’t vanish like a ghost or a sailor washing overboard.
But it can dance with the sorrow in a way that can’t be taught....”
- Troubadour De Twocats.
“They got the sun, and they got the palm trees
They got the weed, and they got the taxis
Whoa, the harder they come, the home of ol' bluebeat
I'd stay and be a tourist but I can't take the gunplay...”
-Cpt. Strummer of The Clash.
“And the black rain come down
Water water everywhere
Where no bird can fly no fish can swim
No fish can swim....”
- Cpt. Nick of the Bad Seed.
“ ...At sixty-five feet
And forty tons deep
The cut of her jib is enough
To make a fair maiden weep...”
- The lads from The a Naval Band. (Ode to the Old Hunt).
“Read ‘em and weep
The dead man’s hand again...”
- Cpt. Lemme of The Mötorhead.
“Well, I've got to keep myself faithful
And you know that I've been so good
Except for drinking
But he knew that I would
My Jesus gone be here...”
- Captain Waits, Hisself.
“...And if I don't meet you no more in this world
Then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one
And don't be late, don't be late
'Cause I'm a voodoo child.....”
- James Marshall Hendrix.
“...Just a little insane
A couple of shots
I can’t feel no pain....”
- Alice Cooper
“... ancient wisdom in a crunchy treat -
the place where the faith and the flavour meet..”
- Crew of the Regurgatator.
“.....How you’re gonna sail a steady ship
Right through the tempest
No we’re not finished just yet....”
- Bernard Fanning.
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
- Herman Melville.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist....”
- Verbal Kint.
“..and the ocean sighs,
The trick’s in how you pry
The fragile joy out of life
Down here....”
-Troubadour De Twocatts.
“Hey Dog
At night you hear my screams
From my distant lonely world
You feel my eyes touch yours
So lightly now....”
- Cpt. Tek of The Birdman.
“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk....”
― Tom Waits
“We’re sick of waking up late
Gotta get some control
The kids are gonna mutate
From an endless roll...Yeah Hup”.
-Cpt. Tek of The Birdman.
“You can tuna fiddle -
But you can’t tuna fish...”
- Old Saying.
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.....”
- The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner.
“ If you have ghosts,
You have everything....”
- Rocky Erickson.
“Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams..”
-Cpt. Nick of The Bad Seed
“I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
I smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town...”
- Cpt. MacGowan of the Pogue.
"I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep....."
- Leonard Cohen.
“Boy's in bikinis
Girls in surfboards
Everybody's rockin'
Everybody's fruggin”
- B52s
"Only loveCan make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea
Love, reign o'er me....."
- The Who
“Under the sea
We can be happy.....”
- A Jamaican Crab.
“When the wind is in the East
Fishing’s no good
For man nor beast.....”
- Old saying.
“The ocean doesn't want me today
But I'll be back tomorrow to play
And the stranglers will take me
Down deep in their brine....”
- Cpt. Waits of the Bone Machine.
“Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.....”
- Cpt. Steve Zissou
“Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea,
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Or drowning in the oceans of history...”
- World Party.