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Small Craft Warning is an alt/rock/world production written and produced by James O’Connor, Luis Sanches, Kiwan Landreth Smith, Chas Sheppard and Sharda Patasar. Released in 2020.

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Life. Joy. Pain. If I get to choose to be with you, I’d do it all again. Hate and fear. We’re taking on anyone anywhere.

Now. Light. Love.

Tell me what you’re looking for and I’ll give you mine. Nothing’s gonna stop us now. Together we’ll fly away.

Who will you believe in when it all falls apart? Look for me I’m standing here and I’ll never break your heart.

I can take almost anything but now it seems that you’re leaving. It’s shaken my resolve and I can’t go on. Hey the world stopped spinning and I’m floating through the air. It’s shaken my faith in gravity.

I was the one who let you down. I can’t believe I’d be so dumb. After so long has passed now I’m thinking straight.

I can take almost anyone but now it seems they’re not worth it. It’s shaken my love for the whole damn place. Oh, the world stopped spinning and I’m floating through the air. It’s shaken my faith in gravity.

I was the one who let you down. I can’t believe I’d be so dumb. After so long has passed now I’m thinking straight.

If I needed someone else would I be here by myself?

I was the one who let you down. I can’t believe I’d be so dumb. After so long has passed now I’m thinking straight.

I believe in you and me. We were meant to be.

My world dissolves in cocoa. There’s a flower in your hair. There’s times I want to take you somewhere incredible to find that you’re already there. You’re already there.

I believe in you and me. We were meant to be.

The sun is rising off our starboard wing and the world is turning blue. Our love stretches from here to the horizon. All I see is you. Just you.

I believe in you and me. We were meant to be.

(Instrumental)

Don’t you believe in yourself today? Is there some reason to walk away? Are you so sure there’s a better place? Already a hero with so much grace.

You want everything but you can’t have it all. It feels like no one’s watching you until you fall.

The chance that you’re taking -you’re on a rail. Audacious and costly and sure to fail.

You want everything but you can’t have it all. It feels like no one’s watching you until you fall. And then you fall.

Sometimes the sun will refuse to shine.

You want everything but you can’t have it all. It feels like no one’s watching you until you fall. And then you fall.

Don’t fall.

Come quick. There’s a body in the river. Rust beneath a mirror. They don’t think it’s been there for very long for the current’s pretty strong. Maybe it’s the girl who disappeared earlier in the year. I can’t see now, the crowd is getting thicker. They jostle and they bicker on the road to nowhere.

You with the black suit tie and a gleam in your eye for you sit so high. No matter how many times we occupy, you exemplify the means to the end of this game. You have no shame, you take no blame and it’s all the same if every man, woman and child in the world has to fight just to ease the pain.

Peace. It’s not a four-letter word and it’s time that we heard about how you gonna work with the enemy. To make a world where the pain and the war and the stress isn’t gonna be the end of my love. Be a sign of the times. Rewind the lies right in front of our eyes. I see the sun coming up behind flashing lights surrounding burning tires and desperate people.

Get off the road to nowhere.

(Instrumental)

Man lives in a wooden box one hundred feet above the rocks. His stairs are made from root and stone. An ever changing sea gives him everything he needs. He makes a fire from a fallen tree.

Man trips on his fishing pole. One hundred feet the blackest hole. He’s swallowed by the raging sea. A falling tide takes him out so fast. He’s praying it won’t be his last but the water spans out endlessly.

He loses site of his home. But for the moon he’s all alone. He just about makes it over the crest of the first giant wave.

But the one behind is blocking out the moon; bearing down upon him soon; pulling him out with thirty tonnes of sand.

Strong arms take him quickly down. There’s water swirling all around. He’s heading for the ocean floor. He’s ripped from there and moved around. It’s a miracle he does not drown. Swimming up he feels like lead.

He strains to see signs of his home but for now he’s all alone, floating in a mix of sparking bioluminescent foam from the back of the second giant wave.

And the one behind is blocking out the moon; bearing down upon him soon; sucking him out with thirty tonnes of sand.

He cannot face the depths again. His arms are tired and his lungs are drained. He turns to face the coming wave. It lifts him up three stories high – the sea spray stinging in his eye. He’s certain now he can’t be saved. He drops down with impressive weight but still he does not penetrate. He glides along the water dune. Three miles he rides towards the land, carving the water with his hands. He’s beaming at the swollen moon.

He catches sight of his home. But for the moon he’s all alone. He just about makes it back to shore on the face of that perfect giant wave.

But the one behind…

Smile if you can feel me. I’m here alone. With flowers and memories of the love we own. There is no future for the world we made. Just a fire to make up and burn away.

I don’t want to make you cry but I don’t ever want to say goodbye. I hope you never go.

There’s things I believe in and things I know. Why have we come here? Where will we go? Maybe it’s all just energy and I’ll feel you in the wind. Must I be a sailor to feel your tide come in?

I don’t want to make you cry but I don’t ever want to say goodbye. I hope you never go.

Om way away oh…

Every mother to her son. Fathers, sisters, everyone. When will we understand that time is just like sand?

Om way away oh…

I don’t want to make you cry but I don’t ever want to say goodbye. I hope you never go.

This is a small craft warning and we won’t back down. We’ve nothing to lose and we’re almost there.

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