By: Paige Padilla

Give me a second I,
I need to get my docking straight
Openweights are in the bathroom getting ready now to dominate
Our cox’n she’s waiting for us just across the lake
Her seat’s been taken by some novice asking our strokerate, and
I know I told it to her months ago
But I guess that she forgets
And between the lanes and exertion pains
The muscles scream out and they strain, you know
I’m trying hard to row it up

So if by the time the race closes
And we feel like falling down
we’ll row ourselves home

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set this course on fire
Gold burns brighter than the sun

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter

Than the sun

Now I know that times not
All that you got
I guess that I, I just thought
Maybe we could forget that crab she caught
But our coxswain’s back
So let’s raise a toast
‘Cause I found some strength left to row myself home

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter

Than the sun

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter

Than the sun

Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
Just row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)

Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)
Row ourselves home tonight (Nananananana)

The wind is on port side
We have nothing stopping our run
So don’t sub us out, we’ll row ourselves home tonight
Lane Six never arrived
And it’s down to the wire
So don’t sub us out, we’ll row ourselves home tonight

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter

Than the sun

Tonight
We will win
So let’s set the course on fire
Gold burns brighter

Than the sun

So if by the time the race closes
And you feel like falling down
We’ll row ourselves home tonight

Credit: ME

Down with the stroke seat (Cover of Down with the Trumpets)

Yes

HP crew

Bow tappit

Yo, you might see me wear a Uni by JL

And when you race me it’s proven I do well (YES!)

The winter will come

We just have practice inside, it’s not fun (we’re Erging)

Pull it (we’re dying)

Change your stroke rate (let’s drop it)

Not rushing, gold make our coaches happy

And when the sun comes out, we’re not drowsy

We don’t want to be lousy, want success

And our unis so bright they fluoresce

Now I’ve got slide grease on my brand new white Uni

On my brand new white Uni

Um, I know a few crews hate us Got our lightweighters,

so laters don’t cater, We greater,

we got our own boathouse You know now,

so row now, fast legs down, no no

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)

whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat

When I row, wow

We get the gold now

And when our rate drops It’s a party in the bow-ow

Yeah, we row with the flow oh HO HO

And when we enter a race it shows I move sick (when I row)

Pass chicks (when I row)

Push it and drive quick (when I row)

At risk (when I row)

Just be careful you don’t lose your seat (when I row)

That might just happen So listen please Stick with your race plan or your cox might leave

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)

whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat

Um How much sound from the crowd over there

will it take to get unisuits in the air (pardon me there)

Just don’t pretend that If I wasnt faster you wouldn’t wanna row with me yeah

You were the last of my fears

Had the best time of the girls in my year

Well not really but I was half way there

And I coulda been the top rower so yeah

Got slides and a Rigga (drives gettin quicka)

10 so we pass ya (wish you were fasta)

I want my gold to (SHI-I INE)

So baby please don’t (WHI-INE)

Yeah we drop puddles like anvils

Bring your whole crew to a stand still, stil

l Enter us in a race and

I Guarantee there’s nobody we can’t kill

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat (x4)

whoah! Fast legs down with the down with the (x3)

Yeah yeah fast legs down with the stroke seat

On the water… There is another world. I can sit in my boat and look out across the lake and know, deep in my heart, that the world I live in during these water practices, ends at the shore, but that’s okay. Because right now, during this practice, I am in another world.

To my left, I watch another boat row in time with us. Every body moves in unison. They say the human body is one of the most brilliantly designed machines in the world. It is designed to live. But in the dream world… It is a machine finely tuned to move a boat. Every muscles twitches, every breath escapes, every calories is burned for the sole purpose of moving that boat. Living is just what happens while you’re rowing. Not the other way around. Not in the dream world.

I feel as if I am one remove from reality. The coxswain calls for us at attention. Lined up against two other boats, we’re doing a 400 meter sprint. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1. All hands are down. Ready. Attention. Row.” and the start begins. We’re off.
High twenty. I grip my oar tight. My muscles hurt but I tell them to shut up an obey me. I’ve always had a problem with finding the water. Not today. My blade becomes a water seeking missile. Attack it. Attack it. Attack it.
Again. Again. Again. Until your body obeys or breaks. Again. Attack it. Again.

And then… In the dream world that is the lake… We are no longer just rowing. We are somewhere few mortals reach. It’s goes by many names. Heaven. Nirvana. We are in pain but we are there. We are apart. We do not belong to the earthly realm any longer. We have moved past it.

Because… We are no longer just rowing.
We are flying.
We are infinite.