Gift for Crowie by Jetpack Monkey (Godfather series)

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Title of vid: All the Rowboats
Recipient: Crowie
Vidder: Jetpack Monkey
Fandom: Godfather series
Music: All the Rowboats by Regina Spektor
Summary: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Content notes: Gun violence
Signed length: 02:30

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Lyrics
All the rowboats in the paintings
They keep trying to row away
And the captains’ worried faces
Stay contorted and staring at the waves
They’ll keep hanging in their gold frames
For forever, forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away

Hear them whispering French and German
Dutch, Italian, and Latin
When no one’s looking I touch a sculpture
Marble, cold, and soft as satin
But the most special are the most lonely
God, I pity the violins
In glass coffins, they keep coughing
They’ve forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing

First there’s lights out, then there’s lock up
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
It’s their own fault for being timeless
There’s a price to pay and a consequence
All the galleries, the museums
They will stay there forever and a day
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
They keep trying to row away, row away…

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