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DATE: Monday, March 30, 1891

LOCATION: Aboard the SS Westernland, Atlantic Ocean

SCENE: After being questioned by investigators from the Metropolitan Police, the witness realizes he must move quickly to locate Frances’ murderer, whom he believes is traveling with an American to Colorado. Now certain that another witness must have seen him near the crime scene on the night of the murder, he leaves England for America aboard the SS Westernland.

During the ocean voyage, he questions his recollection of the crime. He clearly remembers witnessing the scene from a distance, yet he can also picture the terror in Frances’ eyes. In fact, he can’t get Frances’ face out of his mind. Whenever he looks overboard, he sees her face in the ocean waves. As the ocean voyage wears on, he begins to imagine himself as Jack the Ripper while he visualizes the dead bodies of his victims in the stars. He hears a voice in his head ordering him to keep the situation under control as he becomes more and more fixated on the idea that he’s a fugitive fleeing England only to terrorize a new continent. He knows he shouldn’t entertain these fantasies, but he can no longer help himself.

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Jack, climb back in the hull
Stow the sails and oars
Battened down
Watertight
Unsinkable
Boat

Watch the pitch and roll
Turn the rudder slow
Throw the drogues
Anchor down
Unsinkable
Boat

Tell ‘em all night in
We’ll ride this out a hull
Morning comes
Chart our course
Unsinkable
Boat

Live another day
Despite the wind and rain
Change our tack
Sail on
Unsinkable
Boat

This watch is getting long
Oh, I’m seeing faces in the waves
Counting bodies in the stars

Slow moving, slow motion, slow moving tide
Still water, deep water, bone chilling dive

Jack, this header’s moving slow
Full and by we’ll go
Turn the sails
To the wind
Unsinkable
Boat

Let it go and haul
A westward lift is blowing
Pass the pipe
Down the grog
Let’s ride it on
Home

This watch is getting long
Oh, I’m seeing faces in the waves
Counting bodies in the stars

Slow moving, slow motion, slow moving tide
Still water, deep water, bone chilling dive

Time killing time killing
Sail the ocean blue
Time killing time killing
Under the new moon

Time killing time killing
Sail the ocean blue
Time killing time killing
Under the new moon

Jack, polish all the brass
Swab the decks and brig
Cut the rigs
Tie the ropes
Unsinkable
Boat

Grab the holy stone
Scrub down to the bone
Man the yards
Watertight
Unsinkable
Boat

Lock the wheelhouse door
Let’s get this vessel moored
Clean the grave
Piss and spit
Unsinkable
Boat

Climb back in the hull
Stow the sails and oars
Battened down
Watertight
Unsinkable
Boat

credits

from In the Shadow of the Seven Stars, track released March 12, 2021
Jeff Crandall: Vocals, Guitar
Aaron Kerr: Bass
Justin DeLeon: Drums
Brett Hansen: Guitars
Mike Nordby: Percussion

Engineered by: Steve Murray, Randy Gildersleeve
Mixed by: Randy Gildersleeve, Jeff Crandall
Mastered by Tom Garneau
Produced by: Jeff Crandall

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