#electropop #eightiesvibeinmyhead

So during the last Sprint, one of the lyrics posted by @silentmonkey contained the line "Former Dutch Hospital Ship", but it wasnt clear if it was part of the song of a left-over line from something else. Whichever, it stuck with me and I wrote some electropop inspired by it. Words came pretty much from this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oranje, which I found vaguely and weirdly amusing, and thus they only make a modicum of sense. Not helped by me singing "shop" instead of "ship" in the third line! However, I like the surrealism it creates, so no biggie.

I thought about just calling this "Sheep Can't Swim" for quite a while but as the phrase only appears once in the lyric, it seemed a bit obtuse.

Apologies to any Dutch listeners offended by my mangling of the word "Oranje" in this song. j$

The MS Oranje Was a passenger liner Wartime hospital shop once until it went oranje-boom!

Maiden voyage to Jakarta Halted by World War outbreak Royal Australian Navy Claimed it as one of its own

We are all like hospital ships On our way down to the abyss Laughing at the cruel irony - We’re hospital ships that sink!

While docked at St Thomas A fire broke out, destroyed it Adding insult to injury Sank on route to the scrapyard.

Bobbing round on the water, Like lambs to the slaughter; Sheep can’t swim, still we get in - We are all former Dutch hospital ships

We are all like hospital ships On our way down to the abyss Laughing at the cruel irony - Hospital ships that sink!