Mate on the Trawler

Verse 1

Black water rising under iron sky

Engines growling while the swells climb high

Deck lights cutting through the freezing rain

Every wave hitting hard again

Boots on steel where the deck runs slick

Lines pulled tight and the cables kick

Captain shouting through the storm’s loud call

I’m the mate holding it through it all

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Chorus

Storm on the sea and the trawler rolls

Cold wind cutting through my bones

Nets in the water, we don’t turn back

Just ride the waves through the pitch-black

Steel and salt, that’s the life I know

Through the hardest tides we go

No easy nights when the wind screams free

Just a mate and a trawler on a dark rough sea

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Verse 2

Winch starts screaming as the cables strain

Heavy nets dragging through the rain

Every haul feels like a fight to win

Against the ocean’s endless spin

Deck keeps pitching side to side

Salt spray blasting like the rising tide

Crew moves fast with the danger near

But the job gets done out here

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Chorus

Storm on the sea and the trawler rolls

Cold wind cutting through my bones

Nets in the water, we don’t turn back

Just ride the waves through the pitch-black

Steel and salt, that’s the life I know

Through the hardest tides we go

No easy nights when the wind screams free

Just a mate and a trawler on a dark rough sea

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Bridge

No calm waters where we roam

Just endless miles far from home

But the sea respects the ones who stay

Working through the darkest day

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Final Chorus

Storm on the sea and the trawler groans

Wind like thunder in the storm

But I stand steady on the rolling deck

A mate with the nets and the ocean’s respect.