Said The Whale

I've seen enough parts to know where we stand It's impossible to take it all in Those bright city lights, they're burning your eyes It's unreasonable to see them from Mars You're unrecognizable You're state of the art You're paper plans You're counsell...

Be sure to be quiet in the middle of the night when the dogs are asleep and the wind is high Grab your things and wait by the window I'll meet you by your window And we'll make no tracks in the snow We'll follow the lake to where the cold north wind will cover...

Write a song for me, my love With your heart in your pen Your poetry and a broken verse The air that I breathe And your golden words Sing a song for me, my love With your heart in your lungs To carry your voice across the prairies And over the mountains And...

You're taken by the woods even though you're aware of the slippery cliffs and the big black bears and the salal snares taller than yourself Ferns growing as thick as the trees You're looking for a flag at the top of the hill It's a race against the light And o...

Maybe I can be your pal and you can be my babe I can be your island in the sun you can be my sunshine every day we too can be grateful lovers we can be together always baby I can be your Mal and you can be mine you can be my B.A. You can be my B.A....

I cannot fulfil your heart Tonight... I love the way you sleep when you're angry The way the moon reflects such a beautiful Lie... I've got my thoughts wrapped up in you I've got my head all messed up with you So tell me what I've gotta do...

My grandfather picks wild flowers at the top of the hill Upon the mountain side And he knows the names by the color, shape, their size Above the ridge and through the valleys Picking flowers by the river side My grandfather picks shooting stars, Prairi...

I am aware of a red tide line, but I won't stop swimming here Fires blazing, sirens in the night, things just getting hotter Two days on the land, for ten months on the water Awaiting the big wave I'm waving a kiss to Vancouver All of the months of wonde...

Mermaid sits on a Siwash Rock in the harbour watching the children play Every day, sun or rain Old man kneels to the earth to pray for the rain and the stars and the cars at the heart A dark and windy Vancouver A black day in December She sees the worst is ye...

Honestly I know you like to keep a mystery But there's this girl I know who's sad, you see And I'd like to show her life ain't always real Camilo that's where you come in my friend Show me your secrets show me all of them I promise I won't say a word again And...

Same time each year Families gather in comfort Safe from the cold It's a rare thing On an open fire Chestnuts are roasting and making Air feel like holidays It's not the same 'Cause I'm so lost Here comes the rain Must be Christmas again On the West Coast H...

Just fifteen miles from shore I lost the love that I had Slipped and fell into the cold Of the deep and the dark below Big wave, small boat We tipped, I froze My hands were ice, my feet were stone I could not throw the rope I caught her eye as she dipped down...

Wednesday last I heard you met a doctor, He done told you that your state will pass As long as you would take your medicine You'll find that salty lungs await your arrival What you had: You had a family that loves you, cared for you And watched you crash. Wel...

Wasn't just any fawn It was the way the snow reflected That made the sky pink The silence of snow The sound of the rain The comedy of human error And I said "Sunshine or no sunshine This is my (?)" Cursed at the clouds Bringing me dow...

Left arms burnt, we head for the lake A bit more sun than we could take I'll push the Jimmy, if you push the Dave Then we could sink down to the bottom and say What a fine life we are living And I think you'll agree That the train tracks are compliment...

False Creek changed in '86 the year Expo exploited her shore It's been twenty two years laying down bricks and there's no room for me here any more, any more there's no room for me here anymore I made my mark in '84 Born to the month of June My home at the he...

Hey girl, what you thinking about? What you thinking about? Are you thinking about love? And what if I took you by the hand To a little place By the rocks and the waves And where do I know you from A different life? Or maybe it's just this...

I am a lovesick gentleman Who pines and pines over the smallest things Most of them are truly inconsequential They are inconsequential things So I'll write you the longest letter Describing my feelings and all these stupid things I'll cross my fingers that yo...

I said goodnight to the moon I said goodnight to the mush A red balloon And a great green room And a brush I look out on the waves I've been stuck here for days and days On a ship you made with your magical ways And your love I was born in a little white bla...

Far from suffering Or unjust circumstance Guilty hypocrite Guilty hypocrite Too little too late Won't make the difference Guilty hypocrite Guilty hypocrite. 

Thought I'd seen the last of you, falling again I'm a roof and I need sun to fit under our dime Thought it was the sky, thought the crack... was... Chips and pain reflecting light, right upon you Thought the water wave was fine Blending in with ice on hea...

Spring has come and brought me these daffodils and lily leaves I place them all upon your chest I knew that it would come to this I’ve watched your skin and bones give out Wincing at the pain you’ve felt Helpless son I am to you If only science had a c...

Holly far from home First time on the road Stops beside the lake And walks out onto the snow Just eighteen years old First time away from home Discommunicates For the first time truly alone Holly digs a hole and kneels as though to pray Reveals a shrouded ph...

I took my car down to the waterfront Put it in park, yeah I got some plans for us We'll make a boat out of the ocean wood Then we could float out into the water I'll drop a line down into the blue sea You'll close your eyes just like you always wanted I'll ca...

Hurricane Adele Little wind growing up east coast Bare skin sleeping through a hurricane You'll be a hurricane Ada I know You'll be Hurricane Ada Sweet in your Mother's arms Fast asleep Little breeze Twinkle in the eye of the storm For my kin For Qu...

Thirty comes fast Kicking at a pile of stones Waiting for a man to look back I could smoke Wouldn’t be a bad idea at all When it hit me Thicker than a pile of bricks My father he was younger than I And he smoked Wouldn’t be a bad idea at all Mayb...

When I learned that I had a brother I made up a dance for you We’d be crime fighters together and do things that brothers do But when you told me about his mother and all that she’d been through What could I do? You got it wrong but I love you You’re kinda ro...

Here on the raincoast The wind blows, waves cold High tide Rise and disappear Islands disappear Here on the tree line High-rise Mountainside A love Forevergreen Apple of my eye Here upon the sea Here on the creekside High-rise mountains hide And starlight d...

Jesse came from Arkansas Had a house and sold it off Been a husband for too long Never been a lover, though So he headed up to Edmonton He changed his name and found some friends Got a couple shekels from a brother who supported him Didn't take a coup...

Come lady hourglass Take me by the hand I'll shower you with gifts If you'll just make the hard time pass You're tall and blue and crystalline I'll be yours if you'll be mine In this ancient battle against time We're bound to make a mark We gotta get...

My horizon: Jet-black mountain, crumbling into the sea Little city, you're still so young But you got so dirty Hey old ocean, are you still holding on? You look so sad and empty Fires burning, forest falling Forevergreen, forevergone I'll say a prayer...

Well we go off And every street that we crossed We spoke aloud to each other I spit against the wind Down the cemetery lane We got some dirt in our nails And we clicked our heels to the west I've got the most important line No, I've got the most impo...

Little bird came into my life When I’d forgotten how to sing She had a broken wing, and on the night she came to me, She sang for me cinders from a spark Little bird had a broken heart She sang all night In the morning I awoke to find I’d grown a sm...

Another wasted night, and I'm out of my head We watch the cars go by from the sidewalk It's like a hundred below, and I'm dressed for the bar But we sing each other warm, we're dancing sideways The whole way home We laughed about the things we tried The...

She knows the secret Of the way into a lover's heart A simple kiss And the breathlessness of the dark A sweet caress Two lips pressed together hard It's simply bliss But it's not the hard part It's in the whispered words That come out from the start...

We tossed the notion around Hints in the subtle sounds Never spoken aloud I loved the idea of it But without significance It could be delicate And I always mean what I say How could I love you less Now that I know you more? It’s just a question that I still...

I would never have guessed That you would find me here On the other side of the land And that you would consider me For to be your lover and friend Your lover And friend I will be happy forever And I will never be unhappy again. 

With the dawn we rose aloud Stretched and yawned What's left, surveyed around The humble sound Searched all of our minds alike For the faintest cloud South bound, satisfied With what we'd found After all the causes we get behind We can still find us...

This little pill That you placed on the tip of my tongue Could never replace the feeling I’ve found Standing alone in this river I know It’s a feeling I can never take with me I want more than this I want it all of the time I want more than this This...

I try to always be a gentleman I try to always be a better friend Lately I’ve been feeling half a man like maybe I should be more who I am Maybe I should fuck something up good Or maybe I should act like someone bad I try to live my life like David does...

I am a secret government agent armed with lies About secret government things I have secret government documents that could knock you dead From your regular citizen lives And I'll break into your regular citizen homes with my government knives I do regul...

Tide slack, a summer low Sunlight catch the golden narrows They’re rising on the flood For the chartreuse and the blood red this time This time I know And with all my heart left to faith I cast my luck into the water and I pray for all my scars and my...

It's where we swam to, when I was younger I remember how, you held me under I was brand new, being underwater But I'm stronger now, that I am a father All the work is now, weight on my shoulders 'Bout the future, and how we're getting older And it's funn...

I left in the middle of the night While you were soundly sleeping And a note on the table by the bed I left my ring on the pillow 

Oh Alexandra So completely undeniable So completely beautiful You teach me to sing again So sweetly I will sing for you If you let me in. Alexandra When you wake up Wear your morning crown No make up Beautiful You teach me to love again So deeply...

I laid a kiss upon your forehead that night We laid awake and you wondered why I’d said “I’d never felt a kiss quite like this before” You said “a kiss is a kiss” But it was never like this before Oh K, oh K, oh K I laid my head upon your chest in the d...

I was on the ropes when you needed my hands I was on the dope when you needed me down I was on the hip when you needed my heart I was on the hopes that you needed me now And I was on the roof and you were the stars I was on your lips, you were in my hear...

We never meant to stay here We were here for the gold We got stuck here for the winter Blinded by golden dollar signs We built some simple structures Temporary, not permanent But each year we dug much deeper And each year things got more serious Each...

Daylight is fading like an awkward smile Sun hides behind the west coast I thought I thought I knew I had everything figured out Till night came and I lost my shadow Blend in with moonlight and broken glass Ten hours of panic will follow I'm lost, the t...

Make it pretty, the way the world sees this city the way the world sees us from afar The way we are, the way we're meant to be It's a different city now. 

If I’m serious and I’m all about it I could see it through, try to live without it I seriously doubt it If I’m fucking up everyone will notice If I laugh it off like it hardly matters Then I’ll definitely do it But if it doesn’t entertain us If it doe...

We travel at night By the light of the moon We follow in the wake Into a Long Bay We anchors away Safe for the night Four brothers and I Wake with a gloom We bathe in the brine Ever too soon For a captain's call Hauling in the line We make our way...

On the side of safe It’s safe to say I’m more or less inclined to walk away And if I am defined You are the dope And I am the climb at the end of my rope Oh, it’s safe to say That I would be the last to bring a vex upon your face Standing in this l...

Oh so many years ago when I was just a boy I believed in the sea and all her treasures to behold And the stories that my father told of lingcod five feet long And so I would kiss my mother's cheek in the dark and out the door Well I'd make me way for ???...

I always thought that Winter was for lovers 'Cause when else is a body's warmth so warm Underneath my clothes your hands are freezing but I Don't say a word But maybe it's the Spring that is for lovers 'Cause that is when the world comes out in bloom In...

Clear the path through the unusual snowfall Hands are cold; our hearts warm in the wet snow Ask me if I still believe in Santa Claus, well, Santa Claus is a very fine fellow When we reached that frozen lake Thought it looked like it was strong enough to...

Sad songs and lullabies Are singing the world goodnight Sleep tight little world Sirens on Christmas day Bad luck is here to stay I'm watching the world go by I'm counting out the seconds Between thunder and lightning The rain is nature's copper wire...

I've been around But I've only been around for a short while I've seen it all I've seen all that I can on TV That's where the war begins That's where the art comes to an end Now here we are standing on the shoreline looking out at the city And jumping...

Shivering cold Cobblestone road Slipping on diamonds and silver A funeral for the leaves A eulogy in the breeze A hymn for the bones of winter The geese have already Buried their heads And a full moon over mine Tells me it's time To start thinking...

It was late when we made our way Across the rocks and the waves Of that cliff in the shape of an Indian face We looked at the sky into the ocean below us You said something smart about the fish and the stars So I took your hand Showed you your timeline...

You are the girl with a black heart You are the stars You are the girl with a bright light I see it shine You find yourself wrapped up in a black art You bear the scars You are the girl with a black heart I see it shine I watch your sun set And then...

When it's so dark I can't see the light I close my eyes and I think of you Teddybear, honey bee Don't forget that you love me More than the stars over your head It's just that your love shines like the moon Full and bright and blinding through Into my...

Honestly, I know you like to keep a mystery But there’s this girl I know who’s sad you see And I’d like to show her life ain’t always real Camilo that’s where you come in my friend Show me your secrets show me all of them I promise I won’t say a word aga...

I think about you all the time I know you'll be alright But I can't help thinking what you're thinking now Are we still two of a kind? Was everything we ever said to each other a lie And every moment we spent To discover the truth was in front of our eye...

The reason my love My priorities got so fucked up And I'm sorry that I lead you to believe You don't mean that much to me 'Cause you do, and I care, and I'd do anything But I'm out on a limb here And you're just sitting there Smoking your thin-lipped, l...

It's the light that I miss when it's gone It's the weight of the season Darkness downpressing on me It's the weight of the season Winter on come lethargy It's a light that I miss when it's gone It's the warmth of a memory Gone away is the light Oh b...

Wake up when it's dark outside, making small talk with the sky again Catch a snowflake on my tongue, make a wish that daylight comes again Poke my nose out through the blinds, hope to god it sticks this time Daylight breaks and sun comes up, watch as our w...

The day begins just like any other I wake up in the comfort of all this bedroom clutter I look outside, another grey sky Looks like winter is coming early this year And I know it's gonna be a real cold one this time A real break down, take down cold one...

(I better close my door) (One, two, three, four) I am slowly going crazy One two three four five six switch Crazy going slowly am I Six five four three two one switch I am slowly going crazy One two three four five six switch Crazy going slowly am I S...

Having a bad day Sitting on the floor Singing a sad song tonight How could it be That something so easy Never seems to turn out right Sitting on the side of your bed Sorry I broke your heart Even with the gifts I gave you Sorry I broke your heart But I did I...

It's been a long night And I've tired out my knees down to the bone and my heart of stone I should feel lucky but I don't Sometimes I'm lonely When I'm stuck here on this throne As the children groan They should feel lucky but they don't Everybody wa...

Lean back into the wind It's an empty cold outside I sent you back just the smoothest rock I could find Accompanied by just a couple of words came to mind It's an old concept Sending letters again Well thought out, rehearsed and written in pen Pa...

Once upon a week ago I thought this And I promised that I never would repeat it But I know, so you’ll know I’ve never been one to reveal a secret But if you hear it somewhere else you won’t believe it So it goes Here we go Alright You And I We found...