Fairfield Crane Lyrics - Singles - The Unthanks

I was born in the shadow of a fairfield crane 

when the blast of a freighter's horn was the very first sound that reached my ear 

on the morning I was born 

as I lay and I listened to the shipyard sound coming out of the great unknown 

and was sung to sleep by the mother tongue that was to be my own 

and when I grew to be one year old I heard the siren's scream 

as the city watched in the blacked out night 

a wandering search light's beam 

and when at last I awoke and rose to my first day of peace 

for I'd learned that the battle to stay alive 

was never going to sea