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Marie....A sad story

The song opens with a haunting contrast between the innocence of a children’s sailing chant—“The big ship sails on the ally-ally-oh”—and the troubling story of Marie, a once-gentle girl who grows increasingly withdrawn after her birthday. Her silence speaks volumes; while other children play and sing, Marie retreats into a glazed, wordless state. Her family—a quiet mother, a smiling but distant father, and detached brothers—offers no explanation, only deepening the sense of something “dreadfully wrong” lurking beneath the surface of their home. The recurring image of “still waters” suggests hidden depths of pain and secrecy, implying that Marie’s calm exterior masks a turmoil that is slowly consuming her. As concern among her peers grows, the lyrics weave in sinister metaphors—the childhood game “What time, Mr. Wolf?” now casts her father and brothers as potential predators. Despite reaching out to a teacher, the children’s suspicions remain unresolved, and Marie suddenly vanishes from school and community life, quietly erased from their world. The cheerful playground songs continue, starkly juxtaposed with Marie’s suffering, while the traditional chant’s captain warning “It will never, never do” echoes as a bleak refrain, hinting at a tragedy that adults fail to prevent. Years later, the unresolved mystery erupts violently when an ambulance arrives at Marie’s house, carrying her parents’ covered bodies away, leaving the street in shock and a child screaming. The house stands locked and silent until, much later, a solitary woman in grey is seen shedding a tear before driving away—a ghostly echo of Marie, perhaps, or another touched by the family’s hidden trauma. The song closes by returning to the children’s chorus, now transformed: “The big ship sank to the bottom of the sea, on the last day of September.” The sinking ship becomes a powerful metaphor for a childhood—and a family—submerged in darkness, its secrets forever buried beneath still, unforgiving waters.