Whaleback Lyrics for "Whaleback" "It's here that we were born and it's here that we will die. Our bones will become brick for future local lives." And when I said, "I'm gone" and waved them all goodbye, all the locals sang, so drunk and so polite, "Do you think you can escape from such a shipwrecked life?" And that's how you were born, a lump of mud and salt with the city on a whale beating through your heart. "It's here that we were born and it's here that we will die." And then I laughed so hard I swear I fell right down. Because I couldn't help but think how horrible that sounds.