The Angler

Album: Lead Me to the Water (1982)
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  • (Brooker)
    The search is over, the battle done
    The fish is beaten, the angler's won
    But simple stories make longer tales
    No consolation if he had failed
    Through wind and desert, Blackberry Hole
    Coyote and rattler had made him old
    No it ain't easy, it's on the borderline
    Between health and madness, the way he bides his time
    Fin to fin in every log-jam
    This is where they lie
    The Deschutes is hot, the bottom's black
    They're eye-to-eye
    My oh my what fun to be on your own
    Down foaming rapids into the deep black hole
    Through thorns and rockslides for to reach his goal
    And golden chances, he let them slip away
    Or was he waiting for the Judgement Day?
    They really nailed 'em on the deadline
    This is where they lie
    Where the water's fast, the current's strong, their eye-to-eye
    My oh my what fun to be on your own
    But on the thirteenth morning when the sun was high
    He tricked that steelhead and saw the line go tight
    Two spirits fighting, two creatures bold
    Bad luck and trouble had finally lost their hold
    Fin to fin in every log-jam
    This is where they lie
    The Deschutes is hot, the bottom's black
    They're eye-to-eye
    I see why he spend his time on his own
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