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you're going to travel to the black sea

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do you know why they call it

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lacks you

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put the binoculars down for a moment skipper

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keeps his eyes on the horizon the

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fish the own

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the live at the surface

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there's to irish

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when they die

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think a ,

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cold darkness weather

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is no life

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you take another look keeping ,

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eyes and convoy convoy the

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wake of the regally ferdinand ahead

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and romanian destroyer pressed into

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axis ranks this

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route between under

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and about divorce is as old

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as ancient greece even

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the phoenicians failed it and

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it is lined with a trail

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of wrecks and

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, men who went down with these boats boats

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lay there as they did today they today

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and when the black sea takes you sea

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, and drown and around

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for miles

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hours

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days

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and when you come to rest on the silt

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there is no light no

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oxygen to

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devour your body

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no way to give up your

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cokes

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and there use

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the cold empty dog

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you chuckle uneasily old

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, tail tail not

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for not nor for

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the men who live men waters you've

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only been sailing you've three days enough

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to for your sea enough to learn

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her rhythm to keep your

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bead on the horizon the she swayze

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it's just you and the skipper in the view

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over the cap stan radio

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silence semaphore

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by day and day keen eye on the single

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volkswagen and wheelhouse by night

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when you signed up for this adventure us

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to be part of a sea rescue mission this

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, is necessarily what you had in

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mind in in a romanian

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tug and romanian seas and

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forty four helping the

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germans escape from crimea

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anyway they say this escape from last convoy

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the took everybody could muster out of the port of the

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stanza couple , small

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german destroyers and the rest

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romanian ships a number

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ten thousand men at least not

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enough by far but

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we'll do our best she

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, the selena a small

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tender with no business this far out but

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small enough where small group to to get to sevastopol

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and back finicky without ballast

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but or decks could hold at least

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three hundred souls they stand the

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red army will lead us looking

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, the skipper he clearly didn't sign

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up for this mission either sell he keeps

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the helm while you keep watch just

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get in get out out

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try to get through this thing alive

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close enough now to make out the shoreline

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six , out safely within

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the harbor defenses safe

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, at least at well

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in range of soviet

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like

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creepy to the horizon behind you

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bring a magic light on the city of flame

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for now

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guy but crackles flak fire

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from , hills canon and mortar

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tracers thrash smoking mouth

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drag

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we are joined on the rates by

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young german lines

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order to enlist stay below

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one too old too be there be there

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his uniform a doubt corner

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the rye

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the looks not just cut

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off

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exactly the kind of moral

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fiber germany needs at the stage

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again nineteen

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forty four on the eastern front the

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, place in the world to be be

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, at , time

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and with the army group cellphone that foot

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it's hard to imagine why these romanians

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are still wrong side

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he takes turns to the binoculars at the symphony

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of violence

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a very serious he

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, posting

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enemy forces twice the size

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big glass taking

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no notice of skippers

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point field

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marshal yet marshal cast is ordering fighting

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retreat

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related to the math

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this to make the most of it he says this

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is all tactic

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he says

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drawing the red army away from best arabia

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crimea , no longer teach

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some of the specialized men could still be

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moved to the front

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the fourth ukrainian red army has already

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taken back the port so we

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, to counseling and industrial

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part just south of the city where

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is it german seventeenth army

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and the romanian mountain core

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are making their last stand

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creeping into range we ignore

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the splash of defensive fire and stay

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in the train while , bigger

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boat keep their distance our craft craft

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small enough to reach shores sound

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a floating debris consequence for

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hello

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whom he the desperate so clinging to

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the shore some of them braving

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them water and tiny cracks we

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also now have the attention of soviet

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dive bombers and

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without a look walk a one own i'd say otherwise

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hiding term flux

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, the skipper to reach the harbor as gunship

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jaws fire this

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around device

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how

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i found it so jarring

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soda , hold back the crowd

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is taught the foul line line

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, civilian

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women children some

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of them now braving the water is your craft appears

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the

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that is to soldiers flesh

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, over the gun wales to vocalist

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vocalist barking orders to the unicorn

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facts holding the holding flashes

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paper orders to whoever seems to be

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in charge his

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voice drowned out into

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the crowd because ,

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a dozen women women ones

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with children he children pointing

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them out one by one the uniforms clear

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path with their path butts voters

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them aboard lining them up

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on display between the funnel in the winch

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motioning them to hold their babies before

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that

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having the women on sex not swayed

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the farmers are

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, a of lot

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mean time since found what he's

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found looking to

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see of faces and see of patches

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few , tank and artillery and

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as many able bodied artillery course he

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does seem the rest find

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a rifle stuck to face rest they try to stuck

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through these men are hurry

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record the women push children

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are pushed fact the pier screaming

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clearing room and more men to the lower

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decks are teaming flexes

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the more in line up the pitch with a smurf

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one of the women know the ukrainian

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my , clutching a child to her chest

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chest her fearless finger in the young

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officers young klutz

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simply on buttons the on felt

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just enough time for you to avert your eyes

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wincing to the unmistakable sound of

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their thirty eight

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when you look again spaces

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chaos

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skipper waste fairly the time for

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to meet the deck fires the throttle

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to certain cries

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the last eleven rounds it is magazine

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the a lot of dragons crime

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, anti submarine vote vote

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steam and to open water before

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long we pass before long marking the end

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of the defensive mine looking

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out over the stern distant

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i think that a boy presents a

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, new dangers dangers

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warned us about

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the police and

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, any you votes to keep them at bay bay

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clash never stop scanning the

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trophy caps anything a

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, of periscope periscope

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array of array trail , torpedo

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loves letter from the people's navy

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the war

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they just gonna let

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us go

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then it happens in

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, pool five

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nautical miles up

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one of the german tankers sending

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, giant ship on a lilt lilt

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folly of depth charts

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the first few explode his blog surface

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causing i have to say

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the other some of us finding

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surface moments later in moans long

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way

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way

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hello thinking of all

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hour longer

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will water's

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edge creeping and gobbling souls

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as it says the

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men scramble to stay afloat

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the last you see of them their

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, reaching a new

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home cuffs plunging

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was plunging

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quote whole to the fizzy more

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sure flailing

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down down they go

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deeper and deeper

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miles and miles hours

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a day

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to the rest

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on the sandy bottom

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the desert under the sea

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darkness

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the

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