[Intro: timpani roll, twangy guitar riff, brass stab, sonar ping] [Spoken, low Russian male whisper] (Tikho, tovarishchi) [Verse 1: restrained, suspenseful] A trawler with no nets at all Is drifting off the Wicklow coast The radar blinks, the shadows fall The harbour lights are pale as ghosts From Holyhead to Howth tonight A million voices cross the deep (Rezh'te kabel) While someone in the cold moonlight Is waiting as the island sleeps [Pre-Chorus: brass building, strings rising] Tick, tock, the tide runs slow Down, down, where the divers go [Chorus: soaring, full orchestra] Undertow! Undertow! Something's moving far below Cut the line and the lights go out Dublin's lost in the dark and doubt Undertow! Undertow! The Irish Sea will never know [Instrumental: guitar riff, brass stabs] [Verse 2: restrained] A man in black with steel-grey eyes Has charts of every wire and seam The banks, the phones, the hospital lines All threaded through his silent scheme The little sub slips out of sight Beneath the swell off Anglesey (Tikho, tovarishchi) One snip of steel in the black of night And a nation's voice is lost at sea [Pre-Chorus: building] Tick, tock, the tide runs slow Down, down, where the divers go [Chorus: soaring] Undertow! Undertow! Something's moving far below Cut the line and the lights go out Dublin's lost in the dark and doubt Undertow! Undertow! The Irish Sea will never know [Bridge: spy chase break, bongos, surf guitar, stabbing strings] [Spoken, female, cool and dramatic] Somewhere between Dublin and Wales The line goes quiet [Spoken, Russian male whisper] (Tri... dva... odin...) [Final Chorus: key change up, full power, huge brass] Undertow! Undertow! Something's moving far below Cut the line and the lights go out Dublin's lost in the dark and doubt Undertow! Undertow! The Irish Sea will never know [Outro: sonar pings slowing, final brass chord] [Spoken, female] The line is dead.
