Full Fathom Five

About Full Fathom Five

"Full fathom five" is a catchphrase deriving from a verse passage, beginning with those words, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Its original context, during a storm and shipwreck, is the drowning, in water about 30 feet (five fathoms) deep, of the father of the character to whom the lines are addressed and the physical metamorphosis that follows. This three-word phrase has been repeatedly used in English-language culture, alone or in the context of larger parts or the whole of the passage, or referred to via abridgements of it, over the four centuries since its composition. Large portions The whole of the stanza was set for choir by Ralph Vaughan Williams as one of his Three Shakespeare Songs. Martin Amis's quotation of most of "Full Fathom Five", in his novel The Pregnant Widow', is among its many Shakespeare references. "The Fathom Five Matter" is a five-episode case in the radio serial Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; it uses the poem in full in the first episode. The stanza was set to music and used as lyrics for the track "Full Fathom Five" on Marianne Faithfull's 1965 album Come My Way more »

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1995

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Burst into heaven
Kiss in the cotton clouds
Arctic sheets and fields of wheat
I can't stop coming down
Your shrunken head
Looking down on me above
Send me home like an elephant stone
To smash my dream of love

Dreaming till the sun goes down
And night turns into day
Rooms are empty i've got plenty
You could move in right away

Seems like there's a hole in my dreams
In my dreams in my dreams

Down through the heavens
Choke in the cotton clouds
Arctic sheets and fields of wheat
I can't stop coming down
Your shrunken head
Looking down on me above
Send me home like an elephant stone
To smash my dream of love

Did your bed and bookshelf go
And run run run away
These four walls saw the rise and fall
And your midnight getaway
Seems like there's a hole in my dreams
Or so it seems
Yet nothing means anything anymore

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