whalefall is the seventh track on glass beach’s sophomore album plastic death.
According to the band’s OurCulture interview, the track is about the development of music. It suggests that “every single new development in art is, just like the worms feeding off a whale’s corpse, on the bones of what...
[Verse 1]
Toss all your change to the wellspring
I won't offer me, I want all for me
[Refrain]
As I lay awake
As I lay awake
I have just one request
[Verse 2]
Past the babbling brook, lapping languidly
Abandon ship to the northern wind
[Refrain]
As I lay awake
I have just one request
[Bridge]
In the undertow
In the undertow
Feeding on the body of a
In the undertow
In the undertow
Feeding on the body of a whale
[Instrumental Break]
[Refrain]
As I lay awake
whalefall was written by J. McClendon & Jonas Newhouse & Layne Smith & William White.
whalefall was produced by glass beach.
glass beach released whalefall on Fri Jan 19 2024.