Wrapped Around The Screw
Mike Watt * Track #14 On Contemplating the Engine Room
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Album Contemplating the Engine Room
- #1In The Engine Room
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- #2Red Bluff
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- #3The Bluejackets’ Manual
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- #4Pedro Bound!
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- #5The Boilerman
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- #6Black Gang Coffee
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- #7Topsiders
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- #8No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man)
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- #9Fireman Hurley
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- #10Liberty Calls!
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- #11In The Bunk Room/Navy Wife
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- #12Crossing the Equator
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- #13Breaking The Choke Hold
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- #14Wrapped Around The Screw
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- #15Shore Duty
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Wrapped Around The Screw by Mike Watt
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“Wrapped Around The Screw” is Contemplating The Engine Room’s penultimate track. In the album’s storyline, the narrator’s friend (the Boilerman) has fallen overboard and gotten mangled to death by one of the ship’s propellers.
Paralleling with the real-life story of the Minutemen, D. Boon’s van acc...
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Wrapped Around The Screw Lyrics
It's over boy
You're overboard
Missing at sea
Missing from me
They found you
Wrapped around the screw
Your last foul-up
All fouled up
And wrapped around the screw