Chase The White Whale

Driver F Chase The White Whale Lyrics
1.Two Words Mr. President_Plausible Deniability

Hey angel!
Won't you shed your wings and stay a while?

I was a reckless total mess
completely unimpressed
at the life I used to lead
and the others around me, surrounding me
Selfish and unaware
Far from being prepared
You took me down to the ocean till I could see
That you are in my bones
like the salt that's in my skin
Hey angel!
Won't you shed your wings and stay a while?

I know you said don't worry
Don't you worry at all
I'll be there with broken arms
To catch you before you could ever fall
But if the water swallowed you in
but if the waves dragged your body out to sea
I'd be the lighthouse on the coastline
with my eyes shining your way home
Hey angel!
Won't you shed your wings and stay a while?

And if the darkness came on too strong
I'd get all of heaven to sing you a song
Reminding you, you are never alone
If you hold on
If you hold on
If you hold on

Open your eyes
Nothing is as bad as you feared
Raise your ears to the skies
I'm in the stars wishing you were here

Seraphim will sing you home tonight
Angel wings will be your guiding light
If you hold on
If you hold on

Seraphim will sing you home tonight
Angel wings will be your guiding light
If you hold on
If you hold on

Hey angel!
Won't you shed your wings and stay a while?
Hey angel!
Won't you shed your wings and stay a while?


2.Temple Of Doom

Please, please, please
don't tell me
Dreams they don't come true
because I've been casting fortunes
into wishing wells
and my return is long overdue
Possibilities are possibly
the only thing
The only thing to keep this empty heart beating
The only thing to keep this broken corpse breathing

Do you believe in luck?
Do you believe in luck?
In my experience there's no such thing

But it's a long walk home
and this road is only a shadow
We're burning on and on and on?

Please, please, please
just tell me
This is just a dream
because I will never wake
I'll sew my eyes shut
Stitch my lips
just in case
Use my tendons for thread
Hold my breath till I am dead
I will sleep till this heart stops beating
I will sleep till this corpse stops breathing

You know, I'm starting to believe
You know, I'm starting to believe
You've got me down on my hands and knees


3.Suncrusher

There seems to be inside of me
A sense of urgency
That my walls are closing in
That my time is running out
My hands are shaking
My hands, my hands are shaking
At the sudden realization
that I am more than flesh and bone
I'm getting more nervous
I'm getting more anxious
All I am is simple hands dying trying to make amends
They are scarred and they are blistered
Regardless I am relentless
The bleeding never ends
I am pressing on, but these are not my hands
If there is strength
left in these legs to run
I'm going to carry my glory to the rising sun
Have faith
providence will provide

All I am is a simple, subtle song
Singing into the wind
always believing
I am much too strong to ever stop repeating
Yet I stumble and I fall
I am only a collapsing wall
My voice fails me
I'm afraid to lift it up
I hear the silver sparrows singing
Tomorrow morning is coming
With its own set of troubles
But there is light at the end of the tunnel
And it will be enough
Don't you dare ever give up

I don't know what tomorrow will bring
From the next to the next day
It's starting to get to me
It's creeping up my spine

If it's true heaven is on our side
There is nothing left for us to hide
'We will mount up with wings like eagles into the morning sky'


4.I Have Better Things To Do Tonight Than Die

This is my blood
These are my veins
Do you see what runs through it
Don't you ever think I could lose it
This is my blood
These are my veins

I want to trace my life
In wet cement
At least my footprints
So everyone can see
this wholehearted misstep legacy
but we all know it's too fast to dry
my legs are getting tired and old
and I, I'm ready to die

This is my blood
These are my veins
Do you see what runs through them
Don't you ever think I could lose it
This is my blood
These are my veins

Anthems of hope
and misguided fears
Is how I'll remember
These past few years
With bittersweet melodies
and desperate dreams
Our stories are amazing
But we fall apart at our seams
(it seems) despite all of my failures
I am not afraid of these present times
I will rise just like the phoenix,
Burn my name across city skies

Take your lives,
Make your legends,
Pass them on, pass them on
Open my eyes,
Tear my throat,
We carry on, we sing our song
We carry on, we sing our song


5.At Least We Are Civilized

Alone in a crowded room
wondering what everyone is thinking about me
And I've second guessed myself
to the point where even my own heart started to doubt me
So I started running
till I couldn't feel my legs

Yeah, I kept on running
till I couldn't recognize
My own eyes in the mirror
As they stared right back
at the ghost I had become
I couldn't remember why I had started to run

I gave up?
No more running
Now everything is different
No, let me explain
You see, nothing is different
It's just I am not the same
Oh, if I could make a difference
If I could make one change

I pray to God just one soul could hear these words
So they won't have to feel the pain
of waking up every morning
fever sick and scared to get out of bed
Not knowing if I took in oxygen
would it just be one breath closer to death
And I've been there before
Barely living for a year or more
And I've asked myself a million times and I said?

'Can I live like this?'
'Yes I can live like this?'
'No, I must insist I can't live like this'
'Can I live like this?'
'Yes I can live like this?'


6.Remember When That Train Wrecked Our Lifestyle

Can you hear me?
I'm choking on rain clouds
coughing up lightning
Trembling like thunder
The water is coming in
It's pulling me under
For forty days and four hundred nights
With no end in sight
I know these clouds will never part ways
But sunlight started creeping

You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
To me you are the desert sand
To me you're comfort like dry land
You're shelter from the storm
You are hands that keep me warm

So southern wind pick me up
and dry me out
Take away all my fear
erase my doubts
I'm a castaway and I'm afraid
of dying alone
I want to know what it's like
to breathe again
I want to hear my own heart beat again
I'm tired of drowning

You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
To me you are the desert sand
To me you're comfort like dry land
You're shelter from the storm
You are hands that keep me warm

Now I am not afraid to take on the rain
And I won't shy away from these white waves
crashing down around my face
Set an open course for the eye of the storm
I'm ready to chase my white whale
So let loose these tattered sails
And it doesn't matter if I make it back or if I fail
Because you saved me and that will be enough somehow
not even an ocean could stop me now
No, not even an ocean could stop me now

You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
To me you are the desert sand
To me you're comfort like dry land
You're shelter from the storm
You are hands that keep me warm


7.The Inevitability Of A Closing Hat

Standing on the edge of the rest of my life
She says, 'What are you so afraid of,
what are you so afraid of?'
I'll drag my heels across this entire town
Let the blood run free
Let it flood the streets
Tonight this city drowns
It's going to drown
I'm gonna see this path through
I'll walk the straight and narrow
Till my legs are broken
Because there are some things in this world
I need to see with my own two eyes
to believe
Believing is not seeing
No to me, believing is breathing
And knowing that each breath won't be your last
Tomorrow, you wake up
and you decide with every glorious mistake
you can erase your past

I am a ticking time bomb
counting down with the swelling of my lungs
with the bursting of my lungs
I am the roar of a thousand lions strong
and tonight I sing my song
Tonight it carries on, it carries on
This all means nothing
If I never make it back
I'll retrace every footstep
Even if it takes a lifetime
to make it back to you
I just need to see you with my own two eyes
To believe, to believe this is true
Believing is not seeing
No to me, believing is breathing
And knowing that each breath won't be your last
Tomorrow, you wake up
and you decide with every glorious mistake
you can erase your past

I'm an open book
dying to be read
with a broken spine
and I'm showing thread
My cover is worn
and my pages are torn
Page after page I'm somehow trying
trying to persuade
That somehow this ending will be okay
But it's hard to believe everything you read


8.Bury Me With My Money

Stand down! Stand down!
Why do you build your towers?
Stand down! Stand down!
Why do you build your towers?
My best defenses
fall apart at my weakest hours
I try and I try to build these walls up to the sky
But all I have become is a walking, breathing empire of lies

Bury my body, my corpse-shaped seed
Start all over, just like a tree
My bones like roots
my tongue like leaves
Will grow back deeper
Trees they grow back stronger
Hearts they grow back stronger
They will grow back meeker
and I will grow back stronger

Wake up! Wake up
We are all on fire
We're walking torches fueled by our own desires
And I'm am no exception
I'm the perfect formulaic, failure combination
Too much confidence
Three parts desperation
I'm going to sever my head to get a different point of view

Bury my body, my corpse-shaped seed
Start all over, just like a tree
My bones like roots
my tongue like leaves
Will grow back deeper
Trees they grow back stronger
Hearts they grow back stronger
They will grow back meeker
and I will grow back stronger

This is the pride before the fall
I'm waving my skin
like a white flag
Tear down your castle walls
Speak now the story of us all

Bury my body, my corpse-shaped seed
Start all over, just like a tree
My bones like roots
my tongue like leaves
Will grow back deeper
Trees they grow back stronger
Hearts they grow back stronger
They will grow back meeker
and I will grow back stronger


9.Water Fun Express

Torn up and tattered
we fly at mid-staff
So hang us halfway up the highest mast
Wrecked and abandoned
We have lost all hope
All faith was gone as the waves swallowed our boat
All assurance is gone
Our inspiration has run dry
Miles and miles of water
and not a drop could satisfy
I am sorry, for making you think
That I would let you drown
while our boat sinks
I am telling you
No, I am promising
That I won't let you down
Believe in me

We are so much more
than our past
Too afraid to let go
Too brave to loosen our grasp
The wind in our sails
Has been stolen from us
And we're not moving anytime soon
The ocean is haunting, unforgiving at night
So dark and deep
it tries to make it seem
That we will never see tomorrow
We will never see the light of the day

I am sorry, for making you think
That I would let you drown
while our boat sinks
I am telling you
No, I am promising
That I won't let you down

Defeated
But not yet broken
Understated
Yet not outspoken
Defeated
But not yet broken
Understated
Yet not outspoken


10.Lie 248

If you're gonna talk
You better spit it out
Let truth flow, let it flow like water
You better bite your tongue
and let the blood run
So we know
Just where to find you (No more hiding)

No one moves till I say move
No one breathes till I say that it's safe to
We need honest air
We need open wounds

As I cast my gaze across these white waves
I see ships that were built to sink
Their hulls are weary, their hulls are weak
They sail silently to their own graves
and there are sharks waiting in those waters
They can taste the blood in their teeth
They're always moving, they're never sleeping
They won't rest till they drag us down into the deep
They will never touch me
I swear to God they'll never touch me!

I won't move till you say move
I won't breathe till you say that it's safe to
We need broken bones
We need open wounds

You better pray that it's going to rain
Because we'll tear you apart two by two
You better pray that it's going to rain
Because we'll tear you apart two by two
You better pray that it's going to rain
Because we'll tear you apart two by two
'Cause a house built on sand will surely wash away

I won't move till you say move
I won't breathe till you say that it's safe to
We need broken bones
We need open wounds

I won't move till you say move
I won't breathe till you say that it's safe to
We need broken bones
We need open wounds