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    MUSIC MONDAY: 2021 Valentine’s Day Playlist

    February 8, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Found this tag on Read Rant Rock & Roll. This meme was created by Drew @ The Tattooed Book Geek. You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    SOUNDTRACK: The Mariner’s Revenge by The Decemberists

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    Soundtrack to Badlands: The Rising by Morgan Brice

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    We are two mariners
    Our ships’ sole survivors
    In this belly of a whale
    Its ribs are ceiling beams
    Its guts are carpeting
    I guess we have some time to kill

    You may not remember me
    I was a child of three
    And you, a lad of eighteen
    But I remember you
    And I will relay to you
    How our histories interweave

    At the time you were
    A rake and a roustabout
    Spending all your money
    On the whores and hounds
    (oh, oh)

    You had a charming air
    All cheap and debonair
    My widowed mother found so sweet
    And so she took you in
    Her sheets still warm with him
    Now filled with filth and foul disease

    As time wore on you proved
    A debt-ridden drunken mess
    Leaving my mother
    A poor consumptive wretch
    (oh, oh)

    And then you disappeared
    Your gambling arrears
    The only thing you left behind
    And then the magistrate
    Reclaimed our small estate
    And my poor mother lost her mind

    Then, one day in spring
    My dear sweet mother died
    But before she did
    I took her hand as she, dying, cried,
    (oh, oh)

    “Find him, bind him,
    Tie him to a pole and break
    His fingers to splinters.
    Drag him to a hole
    Until he wakes up naked
    Clawing at the ceiling of his grave.”

    It took me fifteen years
    To swallow all my tears
    Among the urchins in the street
    Until a priory
    Took pity and hired me
    To keep their vestry nice and neat

    But never once in the employ
    Of these holy men
    Did I ever once turn my mind
    From the thought of revenge
    (oh, oh)

    One night I overheard
    The prior exchanging words
    With a penitent whaler from the sea
    The captain of his ship
    Who matched you toe to tip
    Was known for wanton cruelty

    The following day
    I shipped to sea with a privateer
    And in the whistle of the wind
    I could almost hear
    (oh, oh)

    “Find him, bind him,
    Tie him to a pole and break
    His fingers to splinters.
    Drag him to a hole
    Until he wakes up naked
    Clawing at the ceiling of his grave.

    There is one thing I must say to you
    As you sail across the sea:
    Always, your mother will watch over you
    As you avenge this wicked deed.”

    And then, that fateful night,
    We had you in our sight
    After twenty months at sea
    Your starboard flank abeam
    I was getting my muskets clean
    When came this rumbling from beneath

    The ocean shook
    The sky went black
    And the captain quailed
    And before us grew
    The angry jaws
    Of a giant whale
    (oh, oh)

    Don’t know how I survived
    The crew all was chewed alive
    I must have slipped between his teeth
    But, oh, what providence
    What divine intelligence
    That you should survive as well as me

    It gives my heart great joy
    To see your eyes fill with fear
    So lean in close and I will whisper
    The last words you’ll hear
    (oh, oh)

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Joe is invited for dinner but throughout the night tensions rise as his dad’s true intentions are revealed…

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Neither Richard nor Lucas want a relationship despite their attraction, but destiny already has them in her sights.

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