Just a tin can

Junk in my mind just floating around
Resurfacing every now and then
In the grey seas a storm roaring
Pounding a little indiscriminate ship.
In the sky a dream is soaring
just a tin can , just a tin can.
The sea breaks the ship but not the man
Karlsen by name stays all alone
They beg him please leave
The sea will take you
Karlsen will not …
In sky a the tin can is sailing
From it mens voices talking
Hawser to the boat are sent and broken
In the tin can words are spoken
Men heard men for the first time in space
This little tin can with immaculate grace
Dante jumps from his tug boat across the sea
Together alone Karlsen and he
Two heroes together the world watched and prayed
Two voices talking with everything to say
The boat went down the two heroes were saved
The tin can broke contact that it gave
Both the tin can and the boat died that day
The junk lives on – it has so much to say
Man can touch man, man can save man
Just a tin can, just a tin can

Thank you: Flying Enterprise, Captain Karlsen, Tugman Dante, Telstar, Richard Dimbleby & Goonhilly Bank, for those memories