The back-story: I recently found a labeled but track-list-less mix-tape in my tape box. I’ve listened to it, and I’ve been able to identify all of the songs on it except for one. I’ve dutifully Googled several of the more unusual lyrics, and found nothing relevant or useful. So now I’m bringing it here, in hopes we have a late ’90s Christian rock expert in the crowd who can help me identify this tune.<\/p>\n
Clues, or, Things I Know For Sure:<\/p>\n
1. The mix-tape was made in the Fall of 1996, probably in late September, so the song had to have been released by then.<\/p>\n
2. The song is an up-tempo rock number with a mostly-folky flavor; there are two male voices. They also deploy a harmonica at key junctures. I made the assumption it is Christian rock because of both style and lyrical content.<\/p>\n
3. That said, the lyrics also reflects that somebody was really<\/i> into Moby Dick<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The lyrics of the first verse and chorus, transcribed by me, as best I could:<\/p>\n
(spoken) Eagerly peering towards the horizon
\nyou would have thought he was a prophet or a seer,
\nbeholding, beholding, behold<\/p>\n
(singing) Look up with a silent graceful movement whispers
\nTonight on film I saw him there he was so big
\nTonight I [something] myself from the hands of Jesus
\nTonight the drank the deepest from the [something] spring
\nTonight I took your rainbow by the tail, by the tail
\nYou said my friend it’s the simple things
\nWhat a child trim the sails
\nTonight it’s gone (tonight it’s gone)
\nThe book of whales
\nTonight it’s gone (tonight it’s gone)
\nTo trim the sails
\nGod is [dead?] to the mighty ones
\nGod is [dead?] to the strong
\nthose of us who have seen the book
\nsearch the sea the whole night long<\/p>\n
So. Anyone recognize it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"