Name: Torrey Canyon
Duration: P00H04M30S
Description: Torrey Canyon originally was a multi-subject song about commerce and lack of concern for the environment – it was too broad and needed to be refined down to a single incident: So, having dispensed with the other events it is now a narrative song about the first major marine oil spillage disaster; a stain on the year indelibly labelled in the cultural memory as the Summer Of Love.

Torrey Canyon

from 2nd demo album : The Speed Of Sound In A Blood Orange Sky by The Speed Of Sound

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Torrey Canyon originally was a multi-subject song about commerce and lack of concern for the environment – it was too broad and needed to be refined down to a single incident: So, having dispensed with the other events it is now a narrative song about the first major marine oil spillage disaster; a stain on the year indelibly labelled in the cultural memory as the Summer Of Love.

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Torrey Canyon

I ripped a hole in Torrey Canyon
And perched her high on rocks
The cook on watch saw nothing amiss
As the short-cut stove her in
Her black blood spilled across the sea
Tide and currents pulled
Six score thousand tone pulsed free
She bled and bled and bled

Bombs rained down to break her back
But still she would not sink
The sea ablaze as her cargo burned
The stain still spread and spread
Booms broke up they could not contain
Contagion flooded on
Could chemical sprays save the day?
She bled and bled and bled

The black tide came on and came ashore
Rank stench in company
Detergents pumped onto the beach
Kill the ground kill the air
Rockets. bombs and napalm fell
Toxins filled the sky
Still she lay at sea held fast
She bled and bled and bled

I ripped a hole in Torrey Canyon, she bled and bled and bled
I ripped a hole in Amoco Cadiz, she bled and bled and bled
I ripped a hole in Exxon Valdez, she bled and bled and bled
She bled

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from 2nd demo album : The Speed Of Sound In A Blood Orange Sky, released April 16, 2012
copyright John Armstrong 04Mar1988/16Sep2011

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