Sailing to Nowhere
Broken Bells * Track #5 On Broken Bells
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Album Broken Bells
Sailing to Nowhere by Broken Bells
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Broken BellsProduced by
Danger MouseWrited by
Danger Mouse & James MercerAbout
Mercer describes the song as “really murderous”, explaining that “there’s some really sinister, nasty shit going on in there”.
The spacey sound effects help evocate a certain atmosphere that can be related to a group of people sailing to a faraway place, perhaps to escape from all the bad things the...
Sailing to Nowhere Lyrics
Tonight we sail the wide low wind
Rolling her homeward
With blood on our knives
Who'd have known, you’re a deviant sister
Guts on your blouse
You’re worth your own weight
In diamonds, a dozen
Sailing to nowhere
Vapor to float on
Still we roll on through the night
Battle systems, trading in lies
Taken down by the hounds, one by one
Longing to find our way out
Following the ghost down
Running in circles, a mouse on the table
I try to feel but just don’t
Curling and dead inside
“Go on and cut him in half”, said I
Sailing to Nowhere Q&A
Who wrote Sailing to Nowhere's ?
Sailing to Nowhere was written by Danger Mouse & James Mercer.
Who produced Sailing to Nowhere's ?
Sailing to Nowhere was produced by Danger Mouse.
When did Broken Bells release Sailing to Nowhere?
Broken Bells released Sailing to Nowhere on Fri Mar 05 2010.
What did Broken Bells say about "Sailing to Nowhere"?
While writing “Sailing to Nowhere,” Mercer says the image in his mind was the docking of a ship returning from a disastrous journey in the 1340s. It’s brought back the plague to Europe and, as Mercer puts it, “apple-sized goiters on their body. It was the beginning of — I guess — half of the populat...