I saw a woman standing with a thousand acre gaze.
She was peering past the pelicans, beyond the breaking waves.
I think she felt me lookin cuz she turned and looked right back,
looked me up and down and asked me, "What you lookin at?"
I said, "That's kinda funny, I was gonna ask the same.
What is it your staring at beyond the breaking waves?"
She looked back to the ocean, wrapped her fingers round the rail,
stood up on her tippy toes and said "I'm watchin whales!"

I said, "Standing on the shore? That's not the way to watch a whale,
you need a motor boat with motors, or a sail ship with sails,
you sweep em with your sonar and then chase them through the sea,
That's the way to watch a whale, I watched it on T.V."
Suddenly she lit up and she shouted, "Look at that!"
I didn't see the whale, but I saw the massive splash.
The woman whipped around and with a whale of a smile said.
"The way to watch a whale is to wait a little while!"

Chorus:
Some say heaven's in the sky
But if the devil's in the details. so is the divine.
This world is heaven in disguise
I could see it, I could see it in that whale watchers eyes.

I wiggled in my wetsuit, wished the whale watcher well,
then wandered to the water to go swimmin with the swell
I stumbled cross a surfer and he said "Cu Cu Cachoo?"
I said "Nada mucho, are you watchin whales too?"
He said "Theres no whales here, we're way to close to shore,
I'm here to ride a gnarly wave on my brand new surfing board"
Then he turned back to the ocean, looked down and he sighed,
"I haven't seen a whale since the day that I went blind."

I asked him how it happened and he said "the fault was mine,
You can never be to careful when you're brewin your own shine."
That's when I knew this guy was crazy, bout as crazy as they get
when suddenly he lit up and he yelled "Here comes a set!"
The wave he caught was massive, even bigger than a whale,
He went swoopin down the glassy face and shootin out the barrel.
I said "How the hell'd you catch a wave you couldn't even see?"
He said "Man, I didn't catch that wave, I let the wave catch me!"

Chorus:
Some say heaven's in the sky,
But if the devil's in the details, so is the divine,
This world is heaven in disguise.
I could see it, He couldn't see it, But I could see it in that blind old surfer's eyes

Some say heaven's in the sky,
But if the devil's in the details, so is the divine,
This world is heaven in disguise.
I can see it, Can you see it?? I can see it in everybody's eyes!