How do lures for fishing relate to love, one might ask? Clem likes to tie everything to love as a basic starting point. In Lures On The Wall there’s a definite love for the environment which is pointed out with lines like
“trawlers draggin’ ocean floors is something I ain’t for”,
“And toxic waste and sewage dumps we flush into Great Lakes,
is it gonna be last call for the lures on the wall?”
There’s also a nostalgic longing for simpler times and the loving relationship of the grandfather and grandson connected by fishing in clean water that makes this song relevant with today’s pandemic isolation.
lyrics
Verse 1
In my granddad’s boat house
There’s a history of the lake
A time before we took, all that we could take.
There’s paddles and preservers, rods and old duck calls
But the things that I remember were the lures on the wall
Chorus
We can’t fish this lake no more, they all rolled up on shore.
It looks like it’s last call, for the Lures on the wall
Verse 2
He’d tell stories of the days
When fish were caught by hand
As big as could be brought in, by just one man.
The kind that used to roam the lakes and jump up waterfalls
But Granddad said he caught them with the lures on the wall
Chorus
We can’t fish this lake no more, they all rolled up on shore.
It looks like it’s last call, for the Lures on the wall.
Verse 3
Days Before he passed away
I had the chance to ask
where the fish had gone, why they left no tracks
Pollution and the greed of man and minds that are so small
That’s why it’s last call for the lures on the wall
Last chorus
We can’t fish this lake no more,
They all rolled up on shore
Trawlers dragging ocean floors
Is something I ain’t for
Toxic waste and sewage dumps
We flush into Great Lakes
Is it gonna be last call,
For the Lures on the wall.
Or Is The writing on the wall, ya’ll ya’ll ya’ll
It looks like it’s last call
For the lures on the wall
credits
from Of Lures & Love...,
track released June 4, 2021
PRODUCED BY HUGH CHRISTOPHER BROWN.
Recorded at The General Wolfe Inn and at The Post Office, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada.
MIXING BY HCB at The General Wolfe Lounge and at The Post Office, Wolfe Island.
Assistant engineering and editing by Jake Bury.
MASTERED BY MICHAEL FOSSENKEMPER at Turtletone NYC
DISTRIBUTED BY CRS (Continental Record Services) Holland
All songs written by
R. TIMOTHY SHEFFIELD
(SOCAN) 2020
Personnel;
Vocals: Clem Chesterfield, Damien Van Johnson, Pat Thompson
Acoustic Guitar: Clem Chesterfield
Electric Guitar: Damien Van Johnson
Mandolin: Pat Thompson
Double Bass: Willy Plaxton
Drums: Gary Lavallee
Fiddle: Al Duquette
Steel Guitar: Burke Carroll
Piano: Chris Brown
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