Lyrics
Rowing alone through the night
Fog is painting the black night sky white
Reaching for me touching me with cold hands.
Not caressing, just choking.
Choking, I’m choking!
Something’s there - a ship that reeks of death!
I climb aboard on its silent deck.
Something’s there - I don’t know what or where!
Silent but lethal
Threatening, threatening.
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I think I’ve seen - I turn - there’s nothing there!
Features of faces silently laugh and stare.
Terror grips me the night is cold as death.
Freezing I’m freezing
Weaker and weaker.
It’s hard to think there’s voices all around
The night is cold and still without a sound
There’s water everywhere I’m going down!
I’m staring at the bubbles that escape my mouth.
Story
Sunny and Xavi on Finnish television in 1998.
This was one of the most iconic Black Lürxx songs and usually the opener of the show. The video was filmed near Helsinki in June 1998 by two film students. All three band members came down with a cold afterwards, having spent a whole day out on an island, wet and freezing (they had just relocated to Finland from Los Angeles, so they were not used to Scandinavian temperatures!!).
Liner notes
Xavi: vocals, guitars
Sunny: bass, backing vocals
Joe: drums
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Recorded at Red5 Studios, Vantaa, Finland
Engineered and mixed by Toni Kimpimäki
Joe, Sunny and Xavi in Finland.
Photograph by Tuuli "Stitch" Marttila