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==Wind In Our Sail== | |||
A song I wrote with Ryan Spraker, and Scott Chesak for the White album. Contains numerous literary and scientific references. | |||
[https://open.spotify.com/track/6tZUOzi9p1j7stp8Y5OUoJ?si=mT1NI9S_RvODcBvBg-NkUQ Listen to Wind In Our Sail on Spotify.] | |||
<poem>A boy and a girl | |||
[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834 Albatross around their necks] | |||
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea Hands burning from the rope] | |||
Ship stranded in the tropics | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16293 Acidification] wiped out the [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/t/tiger-shark/ tiger shark] | |||
Let's try to save their souls | |||
And trust the man with the Torah | |||
We got the wind in our sail | |||
Like [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Beagle Darwin on the Beagle] | |||
And [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Mendel experimenting with a pea] | |||
We got the wind in our sail | |||
And we can do so many great things together, together | |||
Breathe in the salt | |||
Slicing waves at [https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/beaufort.html forty knots] | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_cloud Cumulonimbus] in the sky | |||
This is what we waited for | |||
And now there's no more hyperventilating in wheelchairs | |||
We're gonna save the last [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk auk] on [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_Island Funk Island] | |||
We had to do it wrong | |||
Before we could do it right | |||
Pushing the stone up the hill | |||
And if it rolls back down | |||
Whoa [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Sisyphus], it rolls back down</poem> | |||
''HMS Beagle'' [[Image:PSM V57 D097 Hms beagle in the straits of magellan.png|400px]] | |||
''Gregor Mendel'' | |||
[[Image:Mendel with peas.JPG|400px]] | |||
Mendel near the garden of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno | |||
[[Image:Mendel’s Monastery Garden.JPG|400px]] | |||
''Illustration of Great Auks by John James Audubon. Prior to extinction, the great auk’s largest breeding colony was on Funk Island. ''[[Image:PinguinusImpennus.jpg|400px]] | |||
''Sisyphus'' [[Image:Nekyia Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1494 n2.jpg]] | |||
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