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Whaling Wails

by Wailing Whales

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1.
Open 03:53
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There's a town Along the shore It's a run down mess It's a god damn bore And it's full of people Who hate this town If you asked them all They'd love to burn it down But it's their home And while the old complain about the young They don't catch the last train outta here And there's a man living in this town he's handsome smart and strong he can't be brought down and he tells the town he's going out to sea to hunt the whale he's doing it for you and me and so we held a big parade to see him go until his boat fade out of sight out of heart out of soul god rest his soul and as our hero sails away from us we'll hold this town we'll do what we must its an open book
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Even God is Leaving This Planet 02:34
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Well man went walking down the path Decided which road he had to take On one side, there was God and Lord and the other, was man's brain Mankind, down the path Looking forward, looking left Never look right, never look back, you don't Well God said, come on guys, this way but man, he said, oh maybe not today And God said, well who am I to judge? Man looked back, he looked left And then took the right way for sure And then comes down, the choir of angels Reminding us how we used to live But now it seems we left the way for sin and we've all swayed Oh Lord Man said I'll just stay here where I'm at I'll let the eagles, show me where I can go But then came a light shining down And the man in the front said look out, we're getting out of this town
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Alcohol 03:45
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alcohol alcohol I wake up almost every morning the sun is always bright and I feel like it's scorning me or at least something I had done the night before when I was into some heavy drinking well can you blame me? it's life and I've been thinking it's too short, but yet it's too long so I look around there's some girl lying next to me she's passed out gone, and my vision must be hazy cause she's not nearly as pretty as she was the night before so I sneak out of the backroom window make my down town then uh oh well I forgot my wallet al-al-al-al-alcohol al-al-al-al-alcohol if its so good why does it keep screwing up my life? al-al-al-al-alcohol al-al-al-al-alcohol there seems to be nothing that can stop my strife well I've been seeing things lately! I think that black wolf is gonna carry me away! but I keep on drinking! well I know these bottles are gonna put me away! so sneak attack, the tiger is back he's not holding out, he's cutting no slack it's a party, and it's gonna kill him and he wakes up every single morning and the sun always feels like it must be scorning something that he has done and I think, I just might try to start a fight
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Insomnia 03:54
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I'm awake Through majority of every body else's sleep Even though your ships at port You're out swimming in the deep Take your pills And let yourself slip into the dark 
While I am the one and only lark Insomnia It's keeping me awake Insomnia I want to close my eyes for heaven's sake Insomnia Insomnia And the cries of the children Can only get quieter While the snores They keep getting louder And in the quiet of the moon You couldn't You couldn't come to soon Don't worry I'll never scorn I”ll be with you till the morn While the birds They may sing softly in the day But at night It's as quieter than they say Dark things dance And the monsters they put me in a trance And they sing God awful lullabies And my only friends Are the shadows that move and sway Insomnia It's keeping me awake Insomnia I want to close my eyes for heaven's sake Insomnia Insomnia
 And the cries of the children Can only get quieter While the snores They keep getting louder And in the quiet of the moon You couldn't You couldn't come to soon Don't worry I'll never scorn I”ll be with you till the morn
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Carry Me Away 04:39
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If you carry me away What the hell are you gonna say When you're standing face to face Left with out a single trace And if you catch the last train Make sure to have me do the same We all eat different cakes Then compare our belly aches They're going to try to put us down Turn our puppy smiles into frowns Well we all can't fight the man When we're not in the plan These facts are crazed and depleted And no one here's even needed 'Throw them in the fire' the man said And next thing we were dead -- Hey! If I were to go to the moon 
Would that be to soon? Cause it's cold out there in space But at least the moon only has one face And the ice on the south pole Doesn't seem to freeze at all Well my heart's just thawing out And my mind doesn't have a doubt And I feel I feel my beliefs Ripped and torn Scattered amongst all the atmosphere And you you carried me away threw me out to breath in the wastes you're breathing out and there's nothing and there's no one and we're not going anywhere anymore and when we reach it we'll teach it no one will make these mistakes anymore
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This Town, It Waits (Burn it to the Ground) 04:34
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this town it waits for someone to make one small mistake, then it eats them up one giant gulp then you're really outta luck alone down the manhole and I'm tired of these crowds and these white clouds these skies no longer seem so blue but you know who does? everyone at least all of those that I've seen and I can't wait, to burn it down when this town's burnt, it won't be found and I've been dreaming of this day for so long and the moths they wait for some tender bait they beat their wings, and they beat down the air but it wasn't fair the county fair was closed, no one could pay the fare to cross the river on on a ferry boat well then why did they build this moat? and I can't wait, to burn it down when this town's burnt, it won't be found and I've been dreaming of this day for so long and I can't wait, to burn it down when this town's burnt, it will be underground and I've been dreaming of this day for so long and they take up all the air hey well that's not fair but nobody seems to care well I think I'll take the stairs and with all this talk they rise higher up into the skies while the dogs run wild on the ground it's good cause they don't belong in the pound and I can't wait, to burn it down when this town's burnt, it won't be found and I've been dreaming of this day for so long and I can't wait, to burn it down when this town's burnt, it will be underground and I've been dreaming of this day for so long
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Interlude 02:12
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Soft Cries of Her Child 05:11
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Sighing she speaks so softly To the neighbors in the morn They ask and she replies Twenty years since he was born But to his dear mother He is still but a babe And now he's out there on the sea To save this town from misery And as his poor dear mother Every night when she goes to bed She still hears that baby crying Its so clear there in her head And every single morning She looks out to the sea But she doesn't see anything Her sons gone to save you and me And every night in her dreams she hears the soft cries of her child and every day when she wakes She hears them yet again 'my babies gone to his death, of this i am sure' she says to herself more and more and as the waters calmly come in and out in tide the ocean has it's own laws of which man has to abide it will help you or break you but that you cannot decide when you're out on the ocean it is the judge and you are tried Curled up next to the fire The boys mother she sits alone while her son was once a child now he is grown And while most grown boys run off they usually come back home but for her son she knows that now there is none And every night in her dreams she hears the soft cries of her child and every day when she wakes She hears them yet again 'my babies gone to his death, of this i am sure' she says to herself more and more While the town worships and may praise him and this of course makes her proud she cannot help but look out but only see the clouds but to herself she thinks maybe just one more day and she cries again for she knows there is no other way
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Homemade World 06:15
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o!, I can't believe the looks on their faces when they finally saw relief o!, half the people were so excited while the other half were at peace o! that's only cause they finally saw the light and the half gave up the fight have you found your heart I seem to have lost mine In some other space and time Maybe we were just pulling on it a little bit to hard well God just left his calling card and said 'so long children I'm giving myself a break' I kinda always knew he was a fake so you implode, and I'll explode and together we'll make perfect harmony put together mountains and fill in seas then we'll add life, add the birds and bees lie in the grass watch time pass from young to old in the heat and cold leave this feeling out in the snow we'll never know, we'll never know the water and the dirt and the wind blows your skirt as you dance around our new world sing along, but not to this song it's a big wild world and somethings bound to go wrong just point it out, and then wait and see and when God comes back then we'll just flee so you implode and I'll explode and together we'll make perfect harmony and for the first time we'll build it for what it's worth and for the first time we'll learn what it's like not to fall even though we came up short even though we stood to tall it was beautiful cause even with the slightest brush of your nose it sends a shock to my toes it was beautiful I promise I will wipe the tears from your face I promise I will not fall from grace anymore anymore, no so you implode, and I'll explode and together we'll make perfect harmony put together mountains and fill in seas then we'll add life, add the birds and bees lie in the grass watch time pass from young to old in the heat and cold leave this feeling out in the snow we'll never know, we'll never know the water and the dirt and the wind blows your skirt as you dance around our new world sing along, but not to this song it's a big wild world and somethings bound to go wrong just point it out, and then wait and see and when God comes back then we'll just flee so you implode and I'll explode and together we'll make perfect harmony
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Pretty Face, Ugly Mind 04:13
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You have a pretty face but and ugly mind and to be quite honest I don't want to waste my time Cause time moves so fast but life's so short in the long run It's not worth a dime No it's not worth a dime drifting by in the plane Well if it's just the same to you
I'll just step out for a bit let the cool breeze clear my brain you were so into yourself that you forgot yourself and now you're getting jealous of you and with clear blue skies God fills us with little white lies but I guess it's about time But time made a fool of you and now you don't know what to do with yourself just lay down too were you were done, done, done? Well so am I, so am I And when it blew, blew, blew Did you think the Lord thought highly of you? well same for me too Well you have a pretty face but and ugly mind and now it's time to wipe yourself clean wipe yourself clean And for a second, we thought that we could blame them We thought that we could blame them but the blame's all on us
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Sleeping in Angels' Beds 04:50
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I keep calling But you don't ever answer I call, but you make all the calls Well my soul's getting tired Better head off to bed We're sleeping in angel's beds now And I find that the deepest desires Usually go unfulfilled Is that why they're so deep? if so may we weep For the millions that have gone silently before Sleeping in the angels' beds Well the world shouted my name But I wasn't there no I'm without a care may this world forget about me Well when I looked in your eyes All I saw were porcelain skies and this girl that I once called my lover I think she's moving away well that's ok I can't really blame her there's nothing going on here anyway but all these bastards and beggars who try to bring me down and take all I have well I'm just sleeping in an angel's bed and they can just get out of my head Well the doctor lost his pride now Think he left it inside me Along with a pair of scissors and a new heart But it's not quite cutting it These scissors do more damage than good and I can't even feel it beat Sleeping in the angels' beds Well the world shouted my name But I wasn't there no I'm without a care may this world forget about me Well when I looked in your eyes All I saw were porcelain skies Cause when you sleep in Angels' beds It doesn't mean you wear the halo And when you rest your weary head It doesn't mean you're an angel and now I could cry but I might unexpectedly die and then who would be at the blame? so I carry on with this torn up heart and I know that I can't be a part of anything Sleeping in the angels' beds Well the world shouted my name But I wasn't there no I'm without a care may this world forget about me Well when I looked in your eyes All I saw were porcelain skies
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Cornerstone of History 04:52
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I cannot cry And I will go Where the water will flow Your shaken ships, those broken hips These tender lips I flee to the sea it beckons me I set my sails and thus starts my tale and eventually, hopefully I find that beast, that renegade whale And the wind it howls over me Filling my soul and these sails and the millions who are marching down the street to see me go Where to they ask?
Well I don't even really know I'm just a corner stone of history Weeks have passed let me tell you son sailing is hard, when your crew is but one but you keep pressing on even when things get thin this ocean's a home and she's taking me in And while this is that And to each their own I'm sure hunting down whales never seemed So alone And the wind it howls over me Filling my soul and these sails and the millions who are marching down the street to see me go Where to they ask?
Well I don't even really know I'm just a corner stone of history then one night that beast took my boat rocked and tossed it, but it kept a float through most the night but when it was day I saw that my boat had been taken away I was left out in the water no one was around I cried and I shouted but I couldn't heart a sound and as I watched that whale go, I felt so old I realized it was so stupid to be so bold and I let go and sank deep deep into the sea let go of my life, and let the water fill me and the fish they swam around and the water fill my soul and lungs and the millions who ran as this town burned down won't ever even hear this song no they won't ever hear this song I'm just a sinking part of history
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Shipwreck 05:34
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you were just going you were going too fast and the wind it was blowing like time, was blowing past but you never stopped running and for that you are blessed and while in the morning your mother you did kiss we should have shouted those rocks were coming near but while the ship it shuddered in our dreams there was no fear but when we awoke I could have swore I was still asleep And when your ship it broke We truly in the deep but you kept on running you kept on way ahead of us we should have known that you were gone
14.
Close 01:33

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Recorded in a garage over the course of one weekend; this album tells the abstract tale of a small fishing town who's waters become hunting grounds for a mythical whale, and the young man who sets out to destroy the beast.

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released January 12, 2010

Songs written by Philip Hirzel.

All instrumentation by Philip Hirzel and Zach Schroeder

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Philip Hirzel is a composer and musician, camped around Ohio. He is working on it.

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