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Whales Weep Not! (overture) Lyrics by Paul Winter

Whales Alive

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[Spoken: Leonard Nimoy]
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
The hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent
All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
On and on, and dive beneath the icebergs
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers
There they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of
The sea!
[humpback whale voices]
[Spoken: Leonard Nimoy]
And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages
On the depths of the seven seas
And through the salt they reel with drunk delight
And in the tropics tremble they with love
And roll with massive, strong desire, like gods
[humpback whale voices]
[Spoken: Leonard Nimoy]
And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-
Tender young
And dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of
The beginning and the end
And all this happens in the sea, in the salt
Where God is also love, but without words:
And Aphrodite is the wife of whales
Most happy, happy she!
And Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
She is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
She is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
And dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea
[humpback whale voices]
Credits
Paul Winter

Paul Winter

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