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Mario: I have this really lovely book called Voices from the Sea, subtitled Poems by Merchant Seamen (Selected by Ronald Hope), which has been a bedtime favourite for years. There’s this poem To a Flying Fish by Edward Boyston-Smith:

You were cool in the deep green
Wave, with others dimly seen,
Veering, dappled by waving rays,
Veins of refracted sunlight.

Then you launched boldly, to pierce
The surface-membrane, met the fierce
Rush of bright air, and revelled in
Momentary air mastery.

Planing on fleeting ecstatic wing,
How could you miss the frightful thing?
Was it hard on the hot deck,
Flapping your life out?

I rewrote it in homage mostly as a writing exercise cause I like the images so much, but wanted to make it smoother for me to sing, and to put in the things it evokes to me. Now that I’m thinking about it, it feels like it’s in this weird grey area between homage and just theft, but we did a recording of it when we were in full swing with Go and See, and it just didn’t fit with the other songs, so I never got as far as worrying about how to credit it.

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Veins of light danced around you
As you rose within the wave
The others of your school were
Glinting deep within the green

Then you pierced the surface membrane
And rose out into the air
To soar a few short metres
On your bright ecstatic wings

Your shining brief parabola
Took you across the rail
Casting droplets as you gasped upon
the hard hot boards of the deck

Immediately i lifted you
To return you to the sea
With fingers so inadequate
To this most delicate of tasks

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from Incredible Longboats: Relics 2019 - 2023, released May 5, 2023

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Soup Review Sheffield, UK

Soup Review are what happens when South Yorkshire meets South Coast, when folk tradition meets anti-folk downbeat self- deprecation.
Chris Delamere is the son of a morris dancer. Mario D’Agostino arrived in Sheffield from Weymouth.
Together they write songs that masquerade as comic, but on closer listening reveal themselves to be a deep and poignant exploration of the human condition. ... more

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