archipelago silentbob Private Archipelago (Written by Sordid Humour) She lives alone on her Private Archipelago with the palm trees and her seashells She sits in the waves all day She's scared of dying and she wants to keep it that way She sends a boat out on the sea with a little note for me it says why are all the girls so hungry say why are all the girls so hungry why are all the boys so lonely Why can't anybody see me and why can't anybody hear me and why won't anyone believe me hey monkey, why you gotta leave me monkey, why you gotta leave me Why can't you leave a light on .... for me 000622 ... Mirah I'm on the archipelago and I'm waiting to arrive I'm on the archipelago and I know I'm still alive You finally told me what you had been thinking for so long And it breaks my heart wide open but I know that I'll be stronger next time So goodbye my love I'll miss it when it's gone Goodbye my love The ship is shipping on Goodbye my love I'll give it up into the fog Goodbye my love I think I knew it all along (humming) (Repeat) I_knew_it_all_along I knew it all along 031111 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I figured out how to pronounce this word today. The "ch" is like a K. 140208 ... silentbob I should clarify something: 14 years ago I posted the above lyrics with a fundamental misunderstanding of them. These are not the lyrics to the song "Private Archepelago" by Sordid Humour. At least not properly. The above refrain was sung by Adam Durtiz in a live version of Round_Here by counting_crows. Duritz often improvises and adlibs and goes off on tangents in his songs, and in fact, that is part of the charm of their shows; you will never quite get the exact studio version, always a new and wholly original version that may not be repeated at any other show. In this particular recording which I had on some leaked bootleg mp3 in 2000, or maybe from their live album, I dunno, he sang the above lyrics. The internet was not the vast network of tubes that it is today, and I couldn't find any information on Sordid Humour or the proper lyrics to the song. Now their entire album is on Spotify and I can listen to it for free because_the_internet is the great equalizer. Now everything is free for everyone (at the expense of the people who make it). But anyway, now I can confirm that the above lyrics are the improvised ramblings of Adam Duritz and not the proper lyrics to Private Archipelago. the_end & thank_you 140209 ... e_o_i Still, that's pretty cool. I came across the word again while reading The Islanders by Christopher Priest. The book was a "blind date" from the library - some books were wrapped up so that people didn't know what they were getting, and if I return mine with a little form filled out before Valentine's Day I'll have a chance to win a fancy dinner for two, and if that happens (a chance of at least 1 in 100, I think) I'll give to someone else as a gift. How could I reach the age of 25 and not know how to pronounce "archipelago"? Apparently words where the ch makes a k sound are from Greek. But someone in my choir (notice the ch in "choir"!) had been pronouncing chaos as "chay-oss" all her life until yesterday and she's at least 45. 140209 what's it to you? who go blather from