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You're standing by your grey ice water
Out in the wind above ground out in the weather
You had yourself a crazy lover
Becoming frozen trying hard to forget her
You got a job up in Alaska
It's easy to save what the cannery pays
Cause there ain't no way to spend it
At home on a boat, it's a fish trap
You took the path of least resistance
On the phone cutting out talking
Short to long distance
You're standing by your grey ice water
Out in the wind above ground out in the water
You had yourself a crazy lover
Become unfrozen trying hard to forget her
You got a job up in Alaska
It's easy to save what the cannery pays
Cause there ain't no way to spend it
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
Out in the wind above ground out in the weather
You had yourself a crazy lover
Becoming frozen trying hard to forget her
You got a job up in Alaska
It's easy to save what the cannery pays
Cause there ain't no way to spend it
At home on a boat, it's a fish trap
You took the path of least resistance
On the phone cutting out talking
Short to long distance
You're standing by your grey ice water
Out in the wind above ground out in the water
You had yourself a crazy lover
Become unfrozen trying hard to forget her
You got a job up in Alaska
It's easy to save what the cannery pays
Cause there ain't no way to spend it
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
On the arctic blast
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I love the repeated bass line...and the imagery. Such an icy feeling..
Anyway, I was wondering if anybody knows who the girl who sings in the background is?
to me this song has really special meaning. i go to a maritime academy and am training to become a engineer on trade ships. before i went off to school i broke up with my girlfriend. we had been having some problems and i thought instead of trying to maintain a long distance relationship it would be best just to break it off. looking back it is one of the wost mistakes i have ever made. now im basically out at sea without her and having a hard time getting over it. we've talked a few times but it always makes things worse for me and i feel like im stuck out here now. most people think this would be great becuase im learning a lot and when i get out i have a great job lined up but without her it seems a bit pointless.
This song might be my favorite song ever. Period. It is a short story of a man alienated from society, and especially love. The man was most probably driven to this by the following line: “You had yourself/A crazy lover/Becoming unfrozen/Trying hard to forget her.” The most pivotal line of the song has to be “You took the path of least resistance, on the phone cutting out, talking short to long distance.” The man has put himself in a place where he can’t be reached. Instead of directly facing his problems he instead chooses “the path of least resistance.”
Now, almost all of my friends know this is my quintessential song. Few, however, know why. I am that man. I am “standing by the grey ice water, out in the wind above the ground, out in the weather.” Too often I feel as if I am on a barren, polar wasteland cold and distant. I feel an uneasy peace in my solitude, and I, indeed, often take the path of least resistance when it comes to the matter of love. My heart is probably frozen so thick, it may never be coming unfrozen, and all I can try and do is try hard to forget it.
So let me paint a mental picture for you. Imagine an almost unending block of ice. Off in the distance you can spy water lapping up against the ice, and icebergs lazily floating by. There is no form of life as we know it to be seen. There is also a biting wind driving flakes of ice up off the glacial landscape into the air, swirling them about in the process. Imagine that you decide to squint a little harder, and at last discern the shape of man near where the water meets ice. The man has his back turned to you, and is completely silent. That man, in a spiritual and emotional sense, is me.
Because there ain't no way to spend it" This line clearly illustrates how one can actually save his/her money if there are no drugs available.
Which is funny when you think of it Alaska has a two to one percentage of men up there. There’s not many women up there so its not like he has to move on. I guess you can really for get about some one if you move that far. And you would probably not find a girl that reminds you of the crazy lover your trying to forget. I don’t know that last part I said was kinda stupid.