Mermaid sits on a Siwash Rock in the harbour
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watching the children play
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Every day, sun or rain
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Old man kneels to the earth to pray
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for the rain and the stars and the cars at the heart
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A dark and windy Vancouver
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A black day in December
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She sees the worst is yet to come
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A big wave on the horizon
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The first wind blowing in
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Left Stanley's soldiers felled and broken
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Old man kneels to the earth in his mother's garden
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Where his own father was laid
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Every day, sun or rain
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Mermaid sits on her rock and she prays
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For the salmon in the sea, for the winged in the trees
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For the old man on his knees
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For the beauty in the park, and the cars at the heart
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Her own sisters and her brothers
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And ten thousand friends and lovers
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A black day in December.
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Mermaid sits on a tide washed rock in the harbour
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where the Blue Heron would lay
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Everyday sun or rain
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old friends fall to the earth and decay
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With the city by the sea
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Sweet brine in the breeze
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And the mountains watching over her Vancouver
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A black day in December
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Black Day In December
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Said The Whale |