Hey Ahab

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Elton John/Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

THE UNION

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Hey Ahab

Music & lyrics by Elton John, Leon Russell & Bernie Taupin 2010

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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've 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 says, "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

Done