Name: Stay With the Ship
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: The lyrics are inspired by Jared Diamond's book Collapse: How Societies Choose Fail or Succeed. His theories are very thoughtful and intelligent, and all of his books are great, highly recommended.

Stay With the Ship

from ...all things to be considered - Version 1.0 by The Beard Police

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The lyrics are inspired by Jared Diamond's book Collapse: How Societies Choose Fail or Succeed. His theories are very thoughtful and intelligent, and all of his books are great, highly recommended.

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We dug it up and burned it down, cleared the trees from all this ground
Put up stones in their place, carved with their own peculiar face
We found ways to live together, other times destined to fail
Like raising stock on an ice field, or planting seed when it doesn't rain
All that litters the timeline, ignorance of geography
Dedicated to the idea of how we imagine it to be
We're exactly where we should be, floating on like floaters do
Un-relentless optimism, hope a part of every plan
I recommend that we stay with the ship, none of us are going to outlive it
I recommend that we stay with the ship, takes care of us if we take care of it
It's recommended to stay with the ship, none of us are going to outlive it
It's recommended to stay with the ship, takes care of us if we take care of it

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from ...all things to be considered - Version 1.0, released May 26, 2016
music/lyrics/guitar/bass/vocals - Patrick Shaw
drums - Gaetano Nicolosi

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The Beard Police Dayton, Ohio

The Beard Police is Patrick Shaw - husband, father, helicopter pilot, washed up athlete, dubious Alaskan, aspiring troubadour, pro couch potato, amateur philosopher and social critic. I have lived all over the country. For now it is Ohio. I enjoy music & writing songs. I have much more material. More to follow... ... more

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