EASE YOUR FEET IN THE SEA: ...is my favorite Belle and Sebastian song for a reason; Boy with the Arab Strap finally entered my consciousness not long before I made my first trip to the Outer Banks (it had been in my record collection somewhat longer than that), and I think of it absolutely everytime I have gone since, including this afternoon:
Ease your feet off in the sea
My darling, it's the place to be
Take your shoes off, curl your toes
And I will frame this moment in time
Troubles come, and troubles go
The trouble that we used to know
Will stay with us till we get old
Will stay with us till somebody decides to go
Decides to go...
Additional note: what's up with bands' websites that don't list the lyrics correctly? B&S have the first line of this song as "ease you're feet off in the sea;" and Dylan's site takes rather extreme liberties with some of his lyrics.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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