The Unwinding Cable Car

Single infobox
Name = The Unwinding Cable Car
Artist = Anberlin


from Album = Cities
B-Side(s) =
Released = 2007
Writer =
Recorded =
Genre =

Alternative rock

Length = 4:17
Label = Tooth and Nail
Producer =
Reviews =
Last single = "Godspeed"
(2006)
This single = "The Unwinding Cable Car"
(2007)
Next single = "The Feel Good Drag" (2008)

"The Unwinding Cable Car" is the second single from alternative rock band Anberlin's third album "Cities". It is the band's first "slower" song released as a single. The video has been released and has already gotten over 100,000 views.

Lead vocalist Stephen Christian stated before playing "The Unwinding Cable Car" on AOL Sessions Under Cover that the song was originally meant to be "a segue between two songs on the record, but me and Joey (guitarist Joseph Milligan) liked it so much that we just turned it into an entire song".

The song has spent 16 weeks as a TOP 10 HIT on Air 1 stations.Fact|date=June 2008

The song appeared in the opening of the 2008 movie House, a film based on the book by Christian Fiction Authors Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker.