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The blue whale, the largest animal this planet has ever known, is now almost certainly doomed to extinction. Their numbers were so badly depleted through hunting that although they are now protected, they are too sparsely scattered to meet and breed often enough to maintain their population. Furthermore, modern shipping sonar, both merchant and naval, interferes with the sonar communication of the whales making it even more difficult for them to locate one another in the vast loneliness of the ocean.
This is the song of the last blue whale.

But you can put away your tissues. Since I wrote this, the situation of the blue whales has improved. their population has slowly recovered, and I was blessed to see five of them off Los Angeles a couple of years ago.

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I am calling, can you hear me?
I am crying, can you see me?
I am searching, can you find me?
As I've searched now for ten years with no reply.

I remember one gray Antarctic day,
I lost my mother whilst fleeing from a killer ship
An explosion then hearing her last agony
As she disappeared in a spreading sea of red.

I am calling, can you hear me?
I am crying, can you see me?
I am searching, can you find me?
As I've searched now for ten years with no reply.

I have swum beneath the ice and roamed across the sea,
I have sung far reaching songs you could not hear,
But in case I'm not the only one who's left alive,
I have to go on searching till I die.

Perhaps I'm not the last, I may never know,
If another whale sings a song like mine.
Who are these that come destroying us without a cause?
I did not believe in demons till today.

Oh take me far away, to where my friends are now,
In the ice-blue sea, where the sea lions play
I recall those days, there were others then,
We were few but I was not alone.

Will I ever see one of my own kind again?
If I never see one of my own kind again,
When I'm gone from this world we will all be gone,
And you can dance on the ocean of our tears.

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from Warriors of the Rainbow, released January 1, 1990
Produced by Harry Williamson

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Dada Nabhaniilananda, originally from New Zealand, is a yoga monk of Ananda Marga, The Path of Bliss. Through his music and songs he seeks to connect us with the source of love within and remind us of our connection to to all life. He had his 15 minutes of fame in 1992 when he appeared on stage with the Dalai Lama before 10,000 at the 1992 Earth Summit, in Brazil. ... more

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