Whale Station

[Intro] This planet is blue This planet is blue Someone else lives here too Someone's coming out the water Horses that went back And grew fins like it was nothing Now they are swimming And all of the sky fit into the sea And now they are flying Like it's nothing And now they are singing Don't look for meaning Listen [Verse 1] Heartbeat of a blue whale is two beats per minute when feeding Whale milk, whale milk, whale milk This is a mother free from guilt This is a child who knew how to swim even before being born Boats, cargo, war vessels, mapping, supersonic boom Crashing through their skulls with decibels no one in the West can imagine Drowning out the humpback's song and reason Mapping, mapping, mapping the ocean floor, the territory The colonial powers are alive and kicking beneath the waves Alive and kicking on further shores Water birds, water wings, water dragons Pregnant planet, ocean belly Whales got bigger brains and hearts than me Whales got bigger brains and hearts than man Words, words, words, words Whales got words for love that the English language cannot control Today has a hole in it Today has veins through it Today has a hole in it Today has veins through it [Verse 2] The Earth is an ocean planet Surface gossamer, surface churning And crashing, reaching for the sky Fell as deep to the velvet black to the hot heat vents Symbiosis, the key to life Carried on a flaming rock Europa and the exoplanets And on Earth, the colossal Hot white, hot white icebergs And the whales swim The whales sing songs involving tales passed down generations Shifting, never revisiting The orcas killed the salmon and wore them like hats like they did in the eighties And the blue whales watch and remember Sing their low songs, clicks Travelling through ocean paths, through the scattered light They map a thousand more details than the mariner's glistening eye Who alone, alone, alone, alone, alone misses a million things Ocean alive Whales got bigger brains and hearts than me Whales got bigger brains and hearts than man Whales got bigger brains and hearts than me Whales got bigger brains and hearts than man Today has a hole in it Today has veins through it Today the brain in my body is feeding the moon Feeding the isopods,feeding the hagfish Feeding the snow, the flesh falling Reading from the fish salt bible Ten thousand years at the bottom of the ocean Metallic fossil Whale bone tomb Deep, dark, down and under See it screaming under water See it screaming under water Colossal like whale Colossal like landmine Ripping up the sea The sky, the sky, the sky, the sky I am water, I can fly The sky, the sky, the sky, the sky I am water, I can fly Swimming through the city like Swimming through the city like Fish and wine and bread and blood, like Jonah in my belly, like Like, like Jonah in my belly, like Ripping up my belly, like Like Jonah screaming in my belly, screaming murder Bright, white light and murder Jonah, won't you answer? Jonah, won't you answer? Clicking Breathing Clicking Feeling Feeding Loving Swimming Clicking Sleeping And then It stops [Outro] This planet is blue This planet is blue Someone else lives here too Pregnant planet Ocean belly Clicking Feeling Listen