https://signal-and-syntax.com/tags/biology/Recent content in Biology on Signal & SyntaxHugoen-usSun, 30 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0700https://signal-and-syntax.com/posts/edmund-fitzgerald/Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:00:00 -0700https://signal-and-syntax.com/posts/edmund-fitzgerald/Originally appearing on his 1976 album, Summertime Dream, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a powerful ballad written and performed by folk singer Gordon Lightfoot . In 1976, the song hit No. 1 in Canada on the RPM chart, and No. 2 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. The lyrics are a masterpiece, but there was one specific line that always stood out to me: “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.