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Lyrics for Last Great American Whale by LOU REED:
| | | Artist: | LOU REED |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Last Great American Whale | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 74 | | | | Lyrics: | They say he didn't have an enemy
His was a greatness to behold
He was the last surviving
progeny
The last one on this side of the world
He measured half a mile from tip to
tail
silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in
two
That's how we got the Grand Canyon
Last Great American Whale [x4]
Some say
they saw him at the Great Lakes
Some say they saw him off the coast of Florida
My mother
said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother
Off the Carolinas
the sun shines brightly in the day
The lighthouse glow ghostly there at night
The chief of a
local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
and he'd been on death row since 1958
The
mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in
his head
life compared to death for him seemed worse
The tribal brothers gathered in
the lighthouse to sing
and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted and the
great whale sprang full up
and caused a hugh tidal wave
The wave crushed the jail and
freed the chief
The tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned
the browns and reds set
free
but sadly one thing more
Some local yokel member of the NRA
kept a bazooka in
his living room
and thinking he had the chief in his sight
blew the whale's brains out with
a lead harpoon
Last Great American Whale [x4]
Well Americans don't care for much
of anything
land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
with human
life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don't care too much for
beauty
They'll shit in a river, dump ba | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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