Jonah falls asleep inside the cabin of the boatnThe ocean swells and the sailors yell it’s Jonah whose at faultnWatch for sharks and whales and tread the water while you cannDrown the boy and then revive the mannnDo do do do do do do donnJonah lays awake inside the gullet of the fishnHe’s got no magazines to read, he’s got no cigarettes nThe stomach acid turns and he’s spit up onto the sandnThe bleach strips off the boy and leaves a mannnDo do do do do do do donnWhen everything is washed away and nothings left to losenThe curses turn to dust and all the blessings turn to shoesnWell tonight I lay awake inside the belly of my roomnI feel the need to put behind the life that I’ve been throughnBut Nineveh’s confusing so how will I understandnI fall asleep a boy and wake a mannnDo do do do do do do do