Key: Ab major
Verse 1
We were weary from the long hard swim,
but found a school of sighs.
With teamwork and excitement
we surrounded our prize.
Our sonar working perfectly,
our bellies soon be full.
We heard a dreadful banging sound
that made my senses dull.
My eyes they shook inside my head,
I heard my mother cry.
Our pod was scattered everywhere,
searching away by, To run from this horrendous bang,
this ringing in our ears,
the sound it grew in length and depth
and with it carried fear.
The commotion and the cries
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from all I never will forget.
Of course we swam far fast and away,
but the banging would not let.
It would not let us pass that way.
So the other way we went.
Little did I know
that soon many lives of ours would be spent.
I swam close to my pod.
Every now and then I dove down deep.
In a panic to find some way out
from the wall of sound and beat,
alas this sound went down too far
and sure I was out of breath.
I couldn't stay down very long
and that banging made me deaf.
Right back up to the surface
where the pod and disarray were jumping,
running for their lives all splashes,
cries and fray.
I swam fast to the very front,
I saw my mother leading
and inkling at the back of my mind
that a trap was where
we were heading.
But swim I did, and run,
and dive, and search, and try to escape,
yet the sound of engines roaring
and the banging made
me shake.
I noticed rocks ahead of us,
some nets,
and close to shore.
If we do not get back to sea,
I feared the worst and more.
The sound, it was beyond us still,
and only land ahead.
The banging closed around us,
and I heard the cries of the dead.
Oh, now this was an eerie place,
blood spilled of many lives.
I felt their energy and souls.
I heard their petrified last cries.
I swam next to my mother
as behind us dropped a net.
We frantically pushed against it
but the net it would not let.
It wouldn't let us out
and my mother was now caught.
An engine roared over our heads.
My mother was distraught.
I tried to help her free herself
but tangled bound was she.
They came and shouted,
hit her hard,
bound her fluke so brutally.
Her face I saw as she was dragged,
a way in by her tail,
gasping, coughing, drowning
now.
What is her attempt to inhale?
I poked my head above the surface
to see what they were trying,
and in the shallow waters
she was convulsing, bleeding, dying.
but all I saw was blood and pain
and all I loved seemed lost.
thrown roughly by the side
and no one heard me screaming.
the engine in my ears.
I knew right then that this was it.
The start of miserable years.
And now I float in a grimy tank.
A whistle rules my fate.
I eat what's given, do my tricks
and drive myself insane.
I remember that day like yesterday,
the memory etched in stone.
This, my friends, is captivity.
A death sentence.
A life alone.
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