In the words of the song, "it was a nice tiddley ship and the skipper looks on her with pride".

用这首歌的话来说，“这是一艘不错的小船，船长骄傲地看着它”。

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Artists sometimes ride through life like Odysseus lashed to the mast, with all senses deeply experiencing the song of life, but also voluntarily bound to the ship of their art.

有时，艺术工作者的生活一如奥德修斯绑缚在桅杆上，以完全的感知去深深地体验生命的歌曲，但同样自动地约束他们艺术的航船。

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The song is a bonus track from their 2007 album, 'We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

这首歌是该乐团2007 年推出的唱片《出师未捷身先死》的附赠曲目。

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The vicissitudes of show biz, especially its artistic uncertainties, social demands and precarious economics, are vividly brought out in A Ship Without A Sail (the title is from a Rodgers and Hart song by the same name).

FORBES: Carole King, Woody Guthrie, Lorenz Hart and the Flowering of American Songwriting