Lyrics The Whaler’s Dues.lrc Jethro Tull
[id: obaywpja]
[ar: Jethro Tull]
[al: Rock Island]
[ti: The Whaler’s Dues]
[length: 07:53]
[01:41.38]Money speaks. Soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
[01:48.97]It’s the whaler’s dues.
[01:51.72]I’ve been running on diesel. Been running on coal.
[01:57.53]Running on borrowed time, if truth’s to be told.
[02:04.42]Two whales in the ocean, cruising the night
[02:10.51]Search for each other before we turn out their light.
[02:17.89]Been accused of deep murder on the North Atlantic swell
[02:49.81]But I have three hungry children and a young wife as well.
[02:56.43]And behind stand generations of hard hunting men
[03:02.77]Who raised a glass to the living, and went killing again.
[03:10.05]Are you with me?
[03:38.52]Money speaks, soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
[03:46.72]Now pay the whaler’s dues.
[03:50.08]Can you forgive me?
[04:00.99]Now I’m old and I sit land-locked in a back-country jail
[06:05.90]To reflect on all of my sins and the death of the whale.
[06:12.83]Send me back down the ages. Put me to sea once again
[06:19.36]When the oceans were full — yes, and men would be men.
[06:27.96]Can you forgive me?
[07:40.19]Year of Release: 1989