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 fathams 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