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Intro

 It's a constant struggle getting up that hill

 There's a change of guard every day

 When you're clinging onto a driftwood boat

 You pray a great white whale might come your way

 No freeway traffic in the frozen North

 Just a chain link fence full of birds

 And when the harpoon's loaded in the cannon bay

 You'll be rolling through the pages lost for words

 Hey Ahab can you tell me where

 I can catch a ride out of here

 Hey Ahab hoist that sail

 You gotta stand up straight

 When you ride that whale

 In a crumbling city we were trapped for days

 With a broken sun above the clouds

 Caught like Jonah forty fathoms down

 And a sign on the wall saying, "Hope Allowed"

 All the cryptic symbols carved on bone

 A far cry from a tattooed rose

 And when the boys in the rigging catch the wind

 We'll all weigh anchor and it's westward ho

 Hey Ahab can you tell me where

 I can catch a ride out of here

 Hey Ahab hoist that sail

 You gotta stand up straight

 When you ride that whale

 Hey Ahab can you tell me where

 I can catch a ride out of here

 Hey Ahab hoist that sail

 You gotta stand up straight

 When you ride that whale

 Ends on