Whale In A River of Americana Dreams

Whale In A River of Americana Dreams


Beneath a denim sky
Got you on my mind
Only place that I can get you
The only place within this time
Beneath a denim sky
I think you kissed me there…
Asked you to tell me ‘bout the ocean
You whispered Americana in my ear
Americana in my ear

(Chorus)
Whale in a river
Whale in a river
Feel like a Whale in a river
Crawling through the mud to the ocean
Oh, honey, you’re an ocean

Beneath a denim sky
With the windows down
Driving by the vineyards
With your tail to your hometown
Driving past the teenage pines
That curtain the clay fields…
The things people don’t notice
Enough to make you wish that you couldn’t feel
Make you wish you couldn’t feel

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge)
Heard that Kerouac was a mamma’s boy
The spine is broken on your paperback
Don’t look back
Don’t look back
Don’t look back
Cause you’re not twenty-one anymore
And the spine is broken on your paperback

Beneath a denim sky
I try to find my roots
Been chasing gypsy women
But their cards tell me nothing new
These Petrarchan love poems
And songs for the sirens…
Come on and meet me on the boardwalk
I’ll tell you of all the fools that I have been
That I have ever been

(Repeat chorus)


January 8, 2009