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Seacargo
© Penelope Swales 1993

Driving through the early grey and grimy city streets
Loving you with loving on my conscience
Down through the dockyards,
Through the mist and the anonymous cars
With all these contradictions
Dangling in the air
Like my ratty hair hangs wet around my shoulders
Like the tatters of my good intentions
Ohhh

When he let down his defences
I didn’t trust my senses
But still my craving drew me in
When I dared to recognise
The same compulsion in his eyes
Was tightening the drawstring
Well, I knew what light you’d see it in

But how bloody stupid would you feel
If you know the deal
To have the chance and let it slip away? Ahhh

Oh, Seacargo, won’t you take me with you when you go?
Just one small container load – Ohh

Don’t tell me you can lay the blame
On who should hang their head in shame,
And say my right to choose can’t be defended
I know that you did your best
Yeah, you know that I did the rest
And stayed on when staying should have ended

But how bloody stupid would you feel
If you know the deal
To have the chance and let it slip away? Ahhh

Oh and anyway, makes no difference what you say
Coz there’s no chance I could have stayed away

So I’m driving through the early grey and grimy city streets
Loving you with loving on my conscience
Down through the dockyards,
Through the mist and the anonymous cars
With all these contradictions
Dangling in the air
Like my ratty hair hangs wet around my shoulders
Like the tatters of my good intentions, ohhh
Oh, Seacargo, won’t you take me with you when you go?
Just one small container load – Ohh

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from Between Light and Dark, released September 11, 1993
Penelope Swales - vocals, guitar
Margaret Baker - violin
Trish Anderson - bass
Rowan Brown - percussion

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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