Name: The (ever-elusive) NW Passage
Duration: P00H03M42S
Description: They looked for it for a long time.

The (ever-elusive) NW Passage

from Welcome to Washington by Mary Water

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They looked for it for a long time.

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Ships in the water
Charting the coastline
Seeking a clue, a passage-way

Shoals reefs and sand bars
Thick Fog obscures stars

Pictures of places
that you could take me
Hope -myth –cartography

Storms, pirates, gold, ice,
Thieves scurvy, silk, spice

What makes it so hard to see
3000 miles of impassible geography
What makes it so hard to feel
The crush of the glacier before you see its real

I’m Juan de Fuca from Valeriano
In my Caravela I will see

Shoals reefs and sand bars
Thick Fog obscures stars

I’m captain James cook
Charting the coastline
Markets of Asia
Tempting me

Storms, pirates, gold, ice,
Thieves scurvy, silk, spice

Where did you go what did you seek there?
Did you hesitate?
Does something tell you there is a purpose for both time and place?
Does the elusive highway call to you through time and space?
Could you return the way you came or have you lost your way?

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from Welcome to Washington, released July 1, 2013

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