British Sea Power
British Sea Power are an amazing breath of fresh air into independent music. Their songs are rich with meaning, that range from love to war, to over analyzing problems. However at first listen you wont hear any of that. Their poetry abounds with historical imagery, mainly ranging from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s era. They talk of ships, wars, floods, love, and many places in around the British Isles. But hidden within that is usually a message to modern day man.
Carry on inside of your heart
Under the brine you won’t notice the dark
Can stone and steel and horses heels ever explain the way you feel
From Scapa flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Irrigate your heart until you know your complete
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
My soul she cried I thought you’d died amid fumes of formaldehyde
You have been gone for so long I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
When this Corpus Christic isle became a land of ocean blue
Again, she cried, you turned my eye,
At mentions of, no matter why,
And in the end, an August sun,
And one by one we blew
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
In envy of the grace we saw
Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
