The Song of 52

This is a song based on "The Loneliest Whale in the World," an unusual whale that produces a 52hz call- the only one of its kind. Because of this abnormality, it isn't able to communicate with other whales (hence the "lonely" nickname). Surprisingly, I wrote this song before the pandemic!

On another note, if you are on the Island, there are still tickets available for my July 13th album launch show at the Trailside. Here is the link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/shane-pendergast-july-13th-25-tickets-109306117540

LYRICS:

Come and harken to my story ‘tis a tale of lonely sounds

From the depths of the Pacific and a singer never found

As ears were tuned to spying subs and microphones were placed

To keep secure “red, white and blue” the Reds in blue were traced

The Cold War then concluded and the ocean front was calm

The ears upon the ocean floor were turned from subs to songs

The Whidbey Island Station soon would be a witness to

A whale call like no other- The Song of 52

The mighty whales are said to speak in rumbles loud and low

Their humming reaching distances far ‘cross the great below

They purr to plan their passages, they moan to meet their mates

The Station tracked each murmur as they crept through seas and straits

A piercing call arose one day above the euphony

A pitch too high for other whales- it proved a mystery

Most strange of all this strange whale’s call met silence in the blue

There never was an answer to the Song of 52

CHORUS

He sings for every lonely soul

The voices never heard

The outcasts and the wanderers

For every drowned out word

He cries with those who’ve lost their way

A foothold for the few

The lonesome legend of the sea

They call him 52

The vastness of the ocean makes impossible to find

A friend for him to bandy with, another of his kind

So in the deep-sea darkness, in his own confounded tongue

The lonely whale glides onward as his stubborn song is sung

The singer in a crowded bar, the frantic futile flare

The message in a bottle and the unrequited prayer

The fight against a rising tide to share a point of view

The universal loneliness- the Song of 52