And if Venice Is Sinking

"And if Venice Is Sinking" is a song written by John Mann and Geoffrey Kelly for the Canadian folk-rock band Spirit of the West.

Spirit of the West recorded the song on their studio album Faithlift.

The song is about Mann's honeymoon in Venice with his wife, Jill Daum.

The song also references Marino Marini's sculpture “L’Angelo della Città”: We made love upon a bed That sagged down to the floor In a room that had a postcard on the door Of Marini's Little Man With an erection on a horse It always leaves me laughingSeveral of the band's friends and family members, as well as producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda, also appear on the track as backing vocalists on the song's final chorus, and are credited in the album's liner notes as "Venetian Choir".

However, some radio stations played an edited version with the words "with an erection" blanked out.