Swallowed Up (In The Belly Of The Whale)

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Track 12 of the special edition Wrecking Ball, 2012.

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Credits

• Wrecking Ball (Bonus Track, 2012)
  • Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, organ, drums, percussion, loops
  • Ron Aniello: guitar, bass, keyboards, piano, drums, loops, backing vocals
  • Charles Giordano: accordion
  • Rob Lebret: backing vocals
  • Lisa Lowell: backing vocals
  • Jeremy McCoy: bass violin
  • Clif Norrell: tuba, backing vocals
  • Ross Petersen: backing vocals
  • Mark Romatz: contra bassoon
  • Patti Scialfa: backing vocals
  • Dan Shelly: bassoon
  • Soozie Tyrell: violin, backing vocals

Performances

Performed live 0 times (not including snippet performances).

Released on Album

Released on Wrecking Ball (Special Edition) (2012).

On The Tracks

SWALLOWED UP (IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE)

5:35

WRECKING

Note: features Springsteen, Aniello (some combination of guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, and/or loops), Charlie Giordano (accordion), Rob Lebret (backing vocals), Soozie Tyrell (violin, backing vocal), Patti Scialfa (backing vocal), Lisa Lowell (backing vocal), Ross Peterson (backing vocal), Clif Norrell (tuba, backing vocal), Clif Norrell (backing vocal), Jeremy McCoy (bass violin), Dan Shelly (bassoon), and Mark Romatz (contra bassoon). Included as a bonus track with some editions of Wrecking Ball.

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^{Studio Sessions: Wrecking Ball}

Lyrics

Swallowed Up (In The Belly Of The Whale)

I fell asleep on a dark and starlit sea
With nothing but the cloak of God's mercy over me
I come upon strange earth and a great black cave
I dreamt I awoke as if buried in my grave

We've been swallowed up
We've been swallowed up
Disappeared from this world
We've been swallowed up

The bones of sailors from the north and sailors from the east
Lay high in a pyre in the belly of a beast
A beast should you wander in its path upon your ship and your flesh he'll sup
You'll disappear from this world 'til you've been swallowed up

We've been swallowed up
We've been swallowed up
Disappeared from this world
We've been swallowed up

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

We trusted our skills and our good sails
Our faith that with God the righteous in this world prevail

But we've been swallowed up
We've been swallowed up
Disappeared from this world
We've been swallowed up

We've been swallowed up
We've been swallowed up
Disappeared from this world
We've been swallowed up

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

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