Home » People » Admiral Bob » "Weather You Want it or Not"

Weather You Want it or Not

uploaded: Mon, Jan 19, 2026 @ 5:11 PM last modified: Mon, Jan 19, 2026 @ 5:26 PM (add)

by	Admiral Bob
Featuring	Javolenus
length	5:14
BPM	112
Recommends	Recommends (9)

I intended this rethink of Javolenus’ improv to be a song, and it became an instrumental.

Here are the unused lyrics if anyone cares to give it a go.

We sailed out of Thunder Bay 
January locked the harbour tight 
Ice stacked up like a bad idea 
White knuckles on a blackened night 
Captain said, “Cast the lines off clean” 
Steel hull starts to shudder and sway 
There’s a grain ship stuck in Duluth 
And we’re the ones to clear the way

 Engines pushing through the night 
Rendezvous at morning light 
January sun comes up slow 
Yellow sky like a warning sign 
Captain tells her, “Hold your ground” 
Deck watch out on the port-side rail 
Just making sure the math holds up 
So steel don’t meet steel and fail

Radio crackles, breath hangs white
 Every eye is taking measure
 This lake’s been breaking men a long, long time 
So we cut, cut, cut through the cold 
Through the drift and the closing day 
Channel wide as her tired berth 
Just enough to let her slip away 
Yeah, we cut so she can get away

 We cut it a mile into the lake
 Captain waves her on through
 Bay freezes faster than she can cope 
So we turn around and do it again, too 
Sun climbs up, the edge comes off 
Cold loosens its grip a bit 
Deck watch’s been out there half a day 
They’ve earned whatever warmth exists

 Engine’s pushing, screws bite deep 
Built for things that don’t forgive 
Salty barely moves an inch 
Doing her best just to live 
Engineer laughs, says “We could swim”,
Push her out with our own two hands!”
 I say, “If I see ice in my drink 
It’ll be a month too soon, man”

 Finally she’s in open water 
Bow swings free, she’s on her way 
We’re already tagged for the next call 
This lake don’t give you time to stay 
We’ll be out here till March shows mercy 
Sixty days feels like a dare
 I can feel my feet freezing solid 
Just thinking about being there

media, remix, bpm_110_115, ccplus, sample, non_commercial, audio, mp3, 44k, stereo, VBR, CBR, 48k, mono, female_vocals, instrumental, guitar, electric, bass, drums, piano, rock

Play Weather You Want it or Not

The Mixversation