Coppertank Island Lyrics

Lyric discussion by LastBaron 

Cover art for Coppertank Island lyrics by Fair to Midland

If the right built the anchor And the wrong have set sail I'm a whale, I'm a well, I'm a whale

from this i get that one side 'the right' makes a decision or a choice which would be the 'anchor' while the 'wrong' go the opposite way or 'set sail' meanwhile the speaker is the 'whale', looking on and watching this all take place, like a whale could see an anchor underwater as well as the boat setting sail, still attached to the anchor.

Assuming the anchor and boat are attached to one another (presumably by rope) what does that make the rope? The 'middle ground'? the situation?