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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
Answers:
(1) this(2) coast(3) thrashing(4) systematic(5) deal(6) water(7) kicked(8) when(9) only