The Drones Words From The Executioner To Alexander Pearce

A Thousand Mistakes: Warehouse Sessions. 2012. It s lyrics about a rather tragic historical event. A group of guys in the 1800s tried to escape one of the penal colonies and all of them but one starved to death. Then no one believed his story, so they sent him back. So he escaped again and the same thing happened. They believed him that time, and he was promptly hung for cannibalism. His name was Alexander Pearce, and his original crime was stealing six pairs of shoes. It may help to know that the custom of the sea is an old euphemism for survival cannibalism. Source: