Whaleback

Whaleback

Lyrics for "Whaleback"
"It's here that we were born and it's here that we will die.
Our bones will become brick for future local lives."

And when I said, "I'm gone" and waved them all goodbye,
all the locals sang, so drunk and so polite,

"Do you think you can escape from such a shipwrecked life?"

And that's how you were born, a lump of mud and salt with the city on a whale beating through your heart.

"It's here that we were born and it's here that we will die."

And then I laughed so hard I swear I fell right down. Because I couldn't help but think how horrible that sounds.