Catch and Release

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[Verse 1: cocky grinning male MC, swaggering on the swing]
Got a lawn chair on the pier and a ruler and a pail
Every new sound in the lake, you put it on your scale
"Too clean, too quick, and there ain't no mud on the fin
Ain't fought hard enough to earn the right to swim"
Had your daddy's tape measure with the numbers rubbed off
If it wasn't twenty inches like the old ones, it was soft
So you yanked out the hook, and you tossed me off the side
Told the boys around the bucket, "That's a minnow, let it ride"
I sank down past the stump where the old tires sit
Ate every word you threw at me, and I got fat on it
Ten summers in the dark, learnin' every single bend
Now the dock starts shakin' when I'm swimmin' in again

[Verse 2: cocky grinning male MC, the flow slides onto the off-beats like a fish slipping the hook]
Now you out there every dawn with a heavier line
Bought a brand-new net and a boat with a sign
Says "REAL FISH ONLY" on the side in red
Cast it in the lake, and I'm a wake instead
I bump the hull at sunrise just to say hello
Pull your bobber under, then I let it go
Game warden laughed when you called it in
Said, "Sir, you had that one, and you let it swim"
Kids on the dock with a stick and a string
Pull me up for a minute, and they let me sing
They don't measure nothin', hold me up to the sun
Throw me back laughin' and jump in for fun
Your granddaddy's ruler slid right off the end of the dock
And the inches that you swore by got the mud in every notch
Bait shop hung a picture of me danglin' on the wall
Biggest one the lake has ever made, you threw it back for small

[Hook: cocky grinning male MC, snapping back onto the beat]
Catch and release, you said I wasn't big enough to keep
Threw me back into the water, now I'm runnin' every creek
Catch and release, now the record on the wall is me
And you still out on the pier, measurin' minnows on your knee

[Outro: cocky grinning male MC, laughing over the stomp]
Throw it back, throw it back, go ahead and throw it back
Hope you brought a bigger boat, 'cause I'm bigger than all that
[End]

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[Hook: cocky grinning male MC, bouncing over the stomp] Catch and release, you said I wasn't big enough to keep Threw me back into the water, now I'm runnin' every creek Catch and release, now the record on the wall is me And you still out on the pier, measurin' minnows on your knee [Verse 1: cocky grinning male MC, swaggering on the swing] Got a lawn chair on the pier and a ruler and a pail Every new sound in the lake, you put it on your scale "Too clean, too quick, and there ain't no mud on the fin Ain't fought hard enough to earn the right to swim" Had your daddy's tape measure with the numbers rubbed off If it wasn't twenty inches like the old ones, it was soft So you yanked out the hook, and you tossed me off the side Told the boys around the bucket, "That's a minnow, let it ride" I sank down past the stump where the old tires sit Ate every word you threw at me, and I got fat on it Ten summers in the dark, learnin' every single bend Now the dock starts shakin' when I'm swimmin' in again [Hook: cocky grinning male MC, bouncing over the stomp] Catch and release, you said I wasn't big enough to keep Threw me back into the water, now I'm runnin' every creek Catch and release, now the record on the wall is me And you still out on the pier, measurin' minnows on your knee [Verse 2: cocky grinning male MC, the flow slides onto the off-beats like a fish slipping the hook] Now you out there every dawn with a heavier line Bought a brand-new net and a boat with a sign Says "REAL FISH ONLY" on the side in red Cast it in the lake, and I'm a wake instead I bump the hull at sunrise just to say hello Pull your bobber under, then I let it go Game warden laughed when you called it in Said, "Sir, you had that one, and you let it swim" Kids on the dock with a stick and a string Pull me up for a minute, and they let me sing They don't measure nothin', hold me up to the sun Throw me back laughin' and jump in for fun Your granddaddy's ruler slid right off the end of the dock And the inches that you swore by got the mud in every notch Bait shop hung a picture of me danglin' on the wall Biggest one the lake has ever made, you threw it back for small [Hook: cocky grinning male MC, snapping back onto the beat] Catch and release, you said I wasn't big enough to keep Threw me back into the water, now I'm runnin' every creek Catch and release, now the record on the wall is me And you still out on the pier, measurin' minnows on your knee [Outro: cocky grinning male MC, laughing over the stomp] Throw it back, throw it back, go ahead and throw it back Hope you brought a bigger boat, 'cause I'm bigger than all that [End]

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