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Towing the Line by Ben Howard

TRACK

Ben Howard

Towing the Line

Release date: 31st May 2018

From Noonday DreamTrack 23:56
Singer/SongwriterMusicVocalRock
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"Towing the Line" is a track by Ben Howard, from the album Noonday Dream, released 31st May 2018. The track is 3:56 long. It's filed under Singer/Songwriter. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Ben Howard.

About the Artist

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Lyrics

Towing the Line

Towing the line
I watched the host drink all the wine
And now she rambles through the who and who have nots
The old man is a painter of tired seascapes
Tired of adventure, so my mind wanders
Picking at the table to cure the wrong
Like a bird in a world with no trees
You were hung up there in your disbelief
I know I'm a hard rock to drag around

Love is in the early mornings
In the shadows under the trees
Not in the cuckolded ashes
Floating down from the rookery
Down here I crow for you, you crow for me
Down here I crow for you, you crow for me

Towing the line
I watched the host drink all the wine
And now I'm purring for a drop of anything
Throwing stones at your window
You turn to me as if it's simple
Why can't you be like the blackbird and sing?
I say, "I'm the westerlies in Ireland"
So decadent and violent
Can't you see I'm a forager
Crawling at the bedrock

Love is in the early mornings
In the shadows under the trees
Not in the cuckolded ashes
Floating down from the rookery
Down here I crow for you, you crow for me
Down here I crow for you, you crow for me

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From Noonday Dream

3:562018
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Album
Noonday Dream
Noonday Dream
Ben Howard
1st June 2018
Track number
2
Release year
2018
  1. 1Nica Libres At Dusk
    6:34
  2. 2Towing the Line
    3:56
  3. 3A Boat To an Island On the Wall
    7:10
  4. 4What the Moon Does
    5:21
  5. 5Someone In the Doorway
    4:56
  6. 6All Down the Mines (Interlude)
    0:47
  7. 7The Defeat
    5:53
  8. 8A Boat To an Island, Pt. 2 / Agatha's Song
    4:54
  9. 9There's Your Man
    4:39
  10. 10Murmurations
    6:16

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Is It?
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Collections From The Whiteout
2021
I Forget Where We Were
I Forget Where We Were
2014
Every Kingdom
Every Kingdom
2011
Old Pine
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2011

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