Whale Watching For Beginners (single version)

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You're not the river but I think you're flowing deeper
As the storm clouds glide overhead
You're not the ocean but I think you've set in motion
All the abstract things you once said

And I'm wishing you would lie for a change

You're not the Planet Earth, nor do you have its wealth
You're getting ahead of the game
You're not the sun and sky, there's no point in asking why
You're barely a dark cobbled lane

And I'm wishing you would lie for a change

I'm wishing you would lie for a change

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from Whale Watching For Beginners, track released January 31, 2011
Written, sung and played by Gord Matheson, with Michael Lennie, Avril Smart and Callum Sutherland.

Recorded by Dan Johnston
Mixed by Ross Middlemiss

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Folky acoustic singer-songwriter stuff from Dundee, Scotland.

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