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Gordon Lightfoot lyrics
Gordon Lightfoot lyrics
"Ode To Big Blue Lyrics"
After the Sepulture Lyrics
Nothing ever stops Everything starts again The end and the beginning Are eternal lovers Prisoners of our bodies From the cot to the grave
Nothing ever stops Everything starts again The end and the beginning Are eternal lovers Prisoners of our bodies From the cot to the grave
The oceans of the world were the home of big blue
He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
And the place that he loved best
Was the waters to the west
Around the blue Pacific he did roam
Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he
And the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see
And he took them one by one and he drove them all a
Reign of Terror Lyrics
Marching our way through the crypts of the dead Taking his land by command Killing our victims and taking no slaves Hitler's final third reich Engines are roaring the warheads
wayMarching our way through the crypts of the dead Taking his land by command Killing our victims and taking no slaves Hitler's final third reich Engines are roaring the warheads
In the mating of the day he was the king
Big blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons
Though most of them feel victim to the cruel harpoon guns
Ah but he was too much wise to get caught by the gunners' eyes
And so he lived at sea a hundred years
His mouth was as large as a tunnel so they say
His hide was thick as leather and his eyes quick and sm
What Do You Mean When You Say Lyrics
Well I've cried all my tears I've had enough time playing fool It's the way that you walk through my life Makes me wonder if I'm wasting my time Got a picture of y
allWell I've cried all my tears I've had enough time playing fool It's the way that you walk through my life Makes me wonder if I'm wasting my time Got a picture of y
And his back was all scarred by the times he got away
And he knew the smell of whalers did Big Blue
Big Blue passed away to his natural decay
Beside the Arctic Circle as he travelled up that way
And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand
Who ever took a pan to Big Blue
Now the gray whale has run and the sperm is almost done
The finbacks and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone
They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend
And the killing never ends, it just goes on
The oceans of the earth were the home of big blue
He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west
Around the blue Pacific he did roam