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Cod (Parts 1 and 2)

from Movin' To Canada by Nuclear Spaceship

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We built this town around the sea
and fishing nets were family crests
500 years of destiny
built up to a sudden death

Where do we go from here? That's not our concern
What do we do with ourselves? We'll never learn
What will the harvest bring if there ain't no more cod?
Where will I hang up my wires and rod?

As a boat rocks in the harbor,
somebody spreads the news
Writes a check and says 'good luck',
though we know he thinks us fools

What do we with ourselves? That's not our concern
Where do we go from here? We'll never learn
What will the harvest bring if anything at all?
Where will I hang up my seine and trawl?

Time to go and bait the rods for the water
Time to go check the traps, and make some money
But there ain't much here to take from the water
The cod don't seem to wanna bite, they're all sleeping
Or maybe they are all just gone

500 years they swam the water, St John's must follow the path they
find on the bottoms of watery graves that keep us tethered to the sea

Here we find just another example of
our tendency to plunder from ourselves and dig our graves
But we can't seem to dig any other
The cod don't seem to wanna bite, they're all sleeping
Or maybe they are all just gone

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from Movin' To Canada, released August 14, 2016

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Nuclear Spaceship Maine, Maine

Fritz Derblansky: Acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, sitar, shamisen, sax, trumpet

Josh Dominguez: Vocals, lyrics

Ringo Raskolnikov: Electric & acoustic bass, cello, violin, vocals, flute, tin whistle

Lucy LaFramp: acoustic & electric piano, organ, synthesizer, clavinet, accordion, vibraphone, melodica, kalimba

Charlie Barnaby: drums,percussion, harmonica, backup vocals
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