Heartwarming / Abney Park

• The song that Captain Robert sings most? "Sleep Isabella" — he sings it to his two young daughters every night. Over the phone, if need be. Awww.
  • Anything involving the Captain's daughters tends to be this, especially when it comes to songs they've been inspiration for.
• Rosie and Max: The song is about an Ship captain who lost his entire crew and a young girl who lost her parents in war. The heartwarming bit is that the second they see each other they know they will either be Platonic Life-Partners or Happily Married for life. And when another captain lands his ship on the island after losing his crew he finds that the shack has been turned into a small little bar.
• "The Wrath of Fate" from The End of Days. It tells the tale of an airship battered by storms, traitors, fires, and more, culminating in the ship crashing into the water:
  But the crew stayed at its post, and the Captain at his wheel.
  We all endured the wrath of fate, but thought our fate was sealed.
  A chain's as weak as its weakest link, and rust did cut us through,
  But strength in arms and hearts and heads held 'cause our course was true!
  • ...And they sail off into the sunset, battered, bruised, but together.
    • Aww.
  • Later on on the same album we have "Letters Between a Little Boy and Himself as an Adult," where Captain Robert's adult and child selves communicate via letters (It Makes Sense in Context) and they basically tell each other to never stop dreaming and enjoying life. And it ends with Captain Robert realizing how droll humdrum his existence has gotten and setting off to find the childlike sense of adventure and wonder he used to have.
• In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Abney Park released a album of happy, upbeat songs; some new, some old, aptly entitled Songs of Joy. And it's free to download from their Patreon page.

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