Songtext Belly of the whale Lawrence Arms

Belly of the whale

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 pick 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 I hid
They asked who I was and so I ran and I hid

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

Alright, the new ribcages of the dead young men
Yeah, the new ribcages of the dead young men
Come on, the new ribcages of the dead young men
The new ribcages of the dead young men