Album: Howe Sounds/Taking Abalonia (2008) Songwriters: Tyler Bancroft, Ben Worcester
Just fifteen miles from shore I lost the love that I had Slipped and fell into the cold Of the deep and the dark below Big wave, small boat We tipped, I froze My hands were ice, my feet were stone I could not throw the rope I caught her eye as she dipped down with a wave
I jumped in but I was too late Fighting with the currents of the Georgia Strait Fighting with the wind and the tide and the waves I lost my love that day I touched her fingers as she breathed out my name
She smiled at me, I watched her fade away To the deep and the dark of the underwave To the Currents of the Georgia Strait
And here it's been ten years to the day And here I'll sit for a hundred years and I'll wait Till I see her smiling face Come shining up through the waves On the shore, in the rain I'll wait Till I see my love again
I pray to God, I curse my luck, I question my faith I curse my empty hearted fate And I curse the wind and the tide and the waves And I curse the currents of the Georgia Strait Where I lost my love that day Where I lost my heart To the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait It's the curse of the currents of the Georgia Strait