Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Whaling Stories, artist - Procol Harum. Album song Procol Harum Live in Concert (with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra), in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.03.1972
Record label: Cherry Red
Song language: English
Whaling Stories |
Pailing well after sixteen days, a mammoth task was set |
Sack the town, and rob the tower, and steal the alphabet |
Close the door and bar the gate, but keep the windows clean |
God’s alive inside a movie! |
Watch the silver screen! |
Rum was served to all the traitors; |
pygmies held themselves in check |
Bloodhounds nosed around the houses, down dark alleys sailors crept |
Six bells struck, the pot was boiling — soup spilled out on passers-by |
Angels mumbled incantations, closely watched by God on high |
Lightning struck out — fire and brimstone! |
Boiling oil and shrieking steam! |
Darkness struck with molten fury, flashbulbs glorified the scene |
Not a man who had a finger, not a man who could be seen |
Nothing called (not name nor number) — Echo stormed its final scream |
Daybreak washed with sands of gladness, rotting all it rotted clean |
Windows peeped out on their neighbors, inside fireside bedsides gleam |
SHALIMAR, the trumpets chorused, angels wholly all shall take |
Those alive will meet the prophets, those at peace shall see their wake |