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Hung on a Thin Thread
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Hung on a Thin Thread was released on March 4, 2008 by Dead Oceans as a part of the album Phylactery Factory
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Release DateMarch 4, 2008
LabelDead Oceans
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM65

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Casey Dienel
Casey Dienel
Vocals
White Hinterland
White Hinterland
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Casey Dienel
Casey Dienel
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Adam Selzer
Adam Selzer
Producer
Carl Saff
Carl Saff
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

Come along in my mackinaw
 I’ll point you where you need to go
 Though our path may bend and yaw
 You won’t get lost
 With my pointed prow and square stern,
 We’ll use our arms for oars
 To spoor little schools of fish,
 Make festoon-shaped grooves in the fickle waves
 ‘til the howling wind ushers us to leave.
 
 Out at sea for days, I sleep most afternoons away
 And you anxiously compass us ‘til we see land
 But the land we knew was now a new landscape
 And the howling wind ushered us to leave,
 But you wanted a closer look.
 
 Then gripped to the rail, how our cheeks turned pale
 To see the flying machines near clip the houses
 And throw kisses to the sandbar.
 Little tendrils of smoke trailing out of the exhaust
 In parabolic wakes, swooping low like gulls
 Causing the town to tremor and to shake
 It was clear that city was nothing but an aluminum piece of junk.
 Oh, and the howling wind ushered us to leave
 But we couldn’t move we stood forever changed
 When something ends, something has to begin.
 
 When the filaments of fiber
 from their flares caught afire
 your hair looked like spark on a wire
 I would have paid my last dollar
 To see you lambent like that
 Lit by the light of ten thousand shackled suns
 Being hung on a thin thread.
 
 Sift amongst the debris for half-hearted dreams
 Remnants of pocket change,
 Pretty, frilly, thrown-away things:
 Gauze and dust and shards of glass,
 Bricks and bended straws and greyhounds’ teeth
 And the howling wind ushered us to leave.
Written by: Casey Dienel
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