Tug on the Line | |
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Album |
Undercard |
Released |
2010 |
Artist |
The Extra Lens |
Length |
3:59 |
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Tug on the Line is the tenth song on the album Undercard.
Lyrics[]
Sun shone down on a cloudless sea And we were out on the water, my father and me With several friends of the family along for the ride And out on the calm water we killed the motor And spread our nets wide Keep your face to the wind and you'll be fine And wait for the faint tug on the line Everyone getting restless when we pulled up the net We dropped it down on the deck and everyone's feet got wet And the fish that looked like monsters from way down where the water gets cold Slid down the deck like shuffleboard coasters and made for the hold Everyone's eyes like saucers, nobody saying a word Keep your face to the wind and you'll be fine And wait for the tug on the line Sailed home in silence across the cold sea Several friends of the family, my father and me And something down below deck that we would try to forget Shapeless and probably nameless as of yet Keep your face to the wind and you'll be fine And wait for the faint tug on the line
Comments by John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno About this Song[]
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Undercard |
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Track list: "Adultery" • "Cruiserweights" • "Only Existing Footage" • "Communicating Doors" • "Programmed Cell Death" • "How I Left the Ministry" • "Some Other Way" • "Ambivalent Landscape Z" • "In Germany Before the War" • "Tug on the Line" • "Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods" • "Dogs of Clinic 17" |