[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
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