Nautical Disaster by The Tragically Hip
I had (1)________ dream where I relished
The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in , into a pocket
Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
Off the (2)__________ of France, Dear
One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
Five hundred more were (3)__________________ madly as parasites might in you blood
Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
Anything that (4)____________________ would get you hated.
It's not a (5)________ nor a test nor a love of something fated.
The selection was quick, the crew was picked and
those left in the (6)__________ got (7)____________ off our pant leg and we headed for home.
Then the dream ends (8)________ the phone rings
You doing alright he said it's out there ,most days and nights
But (9)________ a fool would complain
Anyway Susan if you like our conversation is as faint as the sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on the hull
The fray and the screaming that filled my head all day
It was as though I'd been spit there, settled in , into a pocket
Of a lighthouse off some rocky socket,
Off the (2)__________ of France, Dear
One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water here
Five hundred more were (3)__________________ madly as parasites might in you blood
Now I was in lifeboat designed for ten and ten and only,
Anything that (4)____________________ would get you hated.
It's not a (5)________ nor a test nor a love of something fated.
The selection was quick, the crew was picked and
those left in the (6)__________ got (7)____________ off our pant leg and we headed for home.
Then the dream ends (8)________ the phone rings
You doing alright he said it's out there ,most days and nights
But (9)________ a fool would complain
Anyway Susan if you like our conversation is as faint as the sound in my memory
As those fingernails scratching on the hull
Answers:
(1) this(2) coast(3) thrashing(4) systematic(5) deal(6) water(7) kicked(8) when(9) only