Belly of the Whale

from Skeleton Coast by The Lawrence Arms

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If I wasn't just' one kid standing on another kid's
shoulders in a trench coat you'd be in trouble buddy.
If I was an innertube rolling down the quad city river
in the Summer I'd be hauling something tubby.
To the coast where the bones peek up like the ship ribs,
I played hide and seek with the bleach-boned kids.
They asked who I was and so I ran and hid.

In the belly of the whale with a candle and a pen
And it's my lucky day when the tide rolls in
New ribcages of the dead young men

Mandibles and bows and sterns
Captains that it seems ain't never gonna learn
I gotta go back I don't care if it was killing me
I gotta go back you're unbearable like this

I gotta go back cuz goddamnit, you're right
I didn't wanna wake up in this place tonight
Now all I hear is bitching and moaning
Fools barely keeping up with where they're come-and-going

This tired argument is the only one you've ever known
I'm gonna get going my path is a-showin
It's a long way home

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from Skeleton Coast, released July 17, 2020

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