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Tarpits and Canyonlands

by Bombadil

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1.
I Am 01:32
I am lost in the sand building you a pyramid
2.
Sad Birthday 03:09
in the hall we're celebrating what is called sad birthday you're the host, it's up to you to make the toast on this cursed day count to 3, but there is no one else to sing (1 2 3 ) happy birthday sad birthday count your gifts, count again what did you miss nothing anyway candles burn, make a wish and then adjourn to the next day cut the cake, get in line and take a plate, the polite way postman comes, a stack of bills between his thumbs just to throw away check your phone there's just one message it's from home and they forgot to say happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to you
3.
Honeymoon 04:50
throw the body in the lake and take a chance that no one finds out your life is stories that you fake and rake like leaves behind you so row the boat into the bay and say you've lost your compass your life is pieces that you play and maybe they will trump us blow the kiss you never felt and belt your wife for smiling love is lying by yourself alone awake and crying honey even if you knew what lies, what lies behind that honeymoon sew the ribbon round your throat and coat your mouth with honey your life is books you never wrote and tote only for money dig a hole into the ground and pound the earth in outrage your life is treasures that you've found and drowned in lakes that you've made show the soul you never had a fad that will not save you your life is hiding all the bad and sad smiles that break you honey if you took back all the promises and rings and little things and when he sings would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon movies that you make and you hit stop and you hit play and the scenes are day by day would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon comb through all facts to learn his words are rather heady says he's ready to go steady would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon pies that you will bake when you are sittin in the kitchen are you listenin to what your missing would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon be the first to crack when your new love must be measured under pressure under pleasure would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon suckle on the lack of all the hugs you never got and if you rot it's what you bought would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon dew lies on the haystack you were tied and you were tethered like a feather in stormy weather would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon be the first to crack when your new love must be measured under pressure under pleasure would you still know what lies behind that honeymoon
4.
Reasons 02:24
well if i'm the reason you get mad consider if you never had a reason to get quite so angry for at all. and if you're the reason i get red i'll consider throwing you to bed as well as all the times when i got nothing much at all. don't walk away. and i won't walk away. if we're the reason you get scared consider that we've never fared better than the fights in which we gave our all. and if i'm the reason you get cross consider that we never lost the wish to make things right when it mattered most of all. well if i'm the reason you get mean consider if you'd never seen that bunch of flowers twice the height what i thought we could find. but if we're the reason you must leave promise, girl, that you'll believe yourself and not my stutterred pleas for you to change your mind. but if i ever wonder why i love you just open up one bright brown eye and i will surely find. that the way i feel inside will sure remind me who it is that makes the butterflies within my stomach twist and turn and dive.
5.
Cold Runway 03:52
if we fell in love in an aeroplane cabin pressure would you take my name and the shame as we taxi down the turbulence sounds good on the cold runway if we knew true love in the checkout aisle plastic bags and the clerk she smiles and the miles through the parking lot we are not a coupon for cheap love won't you marry me marry me, please julie won't you carry me carry me, please julie the funeral cues me to bury my heart if we called it quits over christmas dinner turkey's burnt can you smell the winter and the cinders just blacken the snow your footprints showed me that you just walked in circles if we talked briefly on the telephone my head drops as I listen for the tone take me home and my body's shakin why'are you takin my dignity a name upon a stone has gone and found a home in my heart if we never met would it be ordinary to think of you by the cemetery as I carry my pick and shovel the flowers huddle in circles round your feet if we met again by the cemetery tombstone name oh won't you marry won't you marry me marry me please julie carry me carry me please julie bury me bury me please julie
6.
Oto the Bear 03:09
oto the bear slept by the stream oto the bear couldn't come clean fish dance the disco of bear dreams get up get up get up get up woo oto the bear played by the thicket oto the bear just couldn't kick it berries crushed microphones concert ticket get up get up get up get up woo oto take a chance you gotta be gotta be taking a chance get up get up get up get up oto the bear they are coming to see strapped to the cage of the magnolia tree oto the bear they are coming to look brought by the idea that souls can be shook oto the bear, he's oto the bear
7.
Prologue 00:50
8.
so many ways to die so many ways to stay alive but if you wouldn't mind to wait a while you could give another day a try you tell me all that you cherished is through well that's not true it isn't true it isn't true i read it in the news it is but really isn't you you are exactly who you choose you're only lying to you so many ways to think how differently we interpret the brink between the side of life worth living and the point at which you're better off to sink so many ways to laugh chortle chuckle giggle cachinnate guffaw like william howard taft science has proven it's correlated with the number of days your life will pass so many ways to die so many different ways to lie should a community allow or should society continue to deny what could i say where do you go what could i do what could i know so many different lives so many different ways to hide but if you open your shutters you might find the joy that only lives outside so many ways to dance so many different meanings for glance but you only get a few if you keep staring at your shoes you will miss every single chance three thousand different ways they could've rearranged your dna but I believe just for today that you can conquer your affliction of the brain
9.
Marriage 02:34
what would you say to marriage after the 200th time I told the same joke and then I broke your favorite watch with my heel what would you say of true love after the 200th time I told you I loved and then I blew your confidence with a lover that was in my past I thought you knew, I thought you knew this was marriage would you still find me pretty after the 200th time I wore the same skirt and then I hurt your dream job offer because I was scared would you still buy me dinner after the 200th time I dropped my silver fork and the nursery rhyme stork never brought a baby to you I thought you knew I thought you knew this was just two names on a court certificate 20 years and the same kiss and I thought you knew I thought you knew this was marriage
10.
Laurita 02:42
laurita yo tengo un secreto para ti si lo supieras no le querias tu me esperarias catacumbas serias tu la verdad yo tengo en mis labios cuando hablo contigo el ya tiene otra flaquita lie lie lie lie lie lie lies un lugar que siempre es sagrada para mi cuerpo y mis huesos a donde van despues de todos dias capitana sin charlatan
11.
Kuala Lumpur 03:30
monsoon winds will take you home to my malaysia kuala lumpur, kuala lumpur all day so much to say so much to say malaysia so much to say monsoon winds will take you home to my so much to say malaysia so much so much to say palm trees bend up to the sky in my malaysia my malaysia dear darling shores of malaysia so much to say
12.
Pyramid 02:12
hauling your limestone all over town won't you send me a message and keep me around building you a pyramid lost in the sand, lost in the sand nomads they will find you your locks will never hold prophets will forget you history is painted gold she's a scarab collector that's what she is i can tell by the wrapping that's hanging from her wrist made you a capstone built it from scratch but I planned no exit or safety hatch
13.
25 Daniels 03:20
25 daniels rode off that day they were wearing the same coat of blue no one was sure how many would die but most guessed it'd be at least 22 and so damn old man time and his dirty trick ways made the worst month of her life feel like 36 days and the last time she smiled was for heaven and you in the winter of 1972 25 daniels rode off that day they were wearing the same coat of blue each of them thought they would surely survive cos their courage was loyal and true and so damn the other side and their dirty trick ways how the redcoats conspired to make dirty water ways and the last time she smiled was for heaven and you in the winter of 1972 on the lam was one daniel the lone runaway who had thrown off his coat of blue he won a whole in his sock, scored a hole in his shirt where the bullets should have gone through and so damn old man time and his dirty trick ways made the worst month of her life feel like 36 days and the last time she smiled was for heaven and you in the winter of 1972
14.
Matthew 03:48
playing checkers in the great hall made math and science school a little less not fun at all studying all night for dr. kish's quiz at least you never caught Yersinia pestis LAN parties after lights out some got mad when we competed for the longest shout Suspended for a week when i propped a door so we drove to shawnee to get some tips from rushmore it was looking pretty bleak - would they let us stay? But did we really want imprisonment anyway? Still, I'm pretty glad they let us back in You were a pretty shoddy roommate but i'd do it again Don't ever take for granted what you're given mathew when they found you they had found you finding jesus as well the poison had caught you in its spell did nobody bother you to tell the catholics would banish you to ... well they should know that you're in a better part of hell Making fun of tyler and aaron for being so fat and how laura was such a brat double-cut punch right across the chin boxing during study time once and again and with a couple old foils we'd fight and then party in the dark to Aphex Twin Always kind of an ass, always making us laugh i used to like looking into the past now you're out of line, now you're out of time forever asshole did you really think you had it the worst of all? you had: everything you ever needed except another head a little less conceited forget about the ones that once you needed matthew when they found you they had found you finding jesus as well the poison had caught you in its spell did nobody bother you to tell the catholics would banish you to well they should know that you're in a better part of hell than the darkness whence you fell before matt when they found you they had found that you'd found christ where you lay he gave you the strength to live, they say. i think he gave you the strength to pass away he made you believe it was okay to produce all the pain and blame anchors away! five hundred yesterdays before you took your breath away. not a lot to say nothing much to do there is a part of you in every of the ones you knew one of whom forever blue i only wish you knew that the gun that failed to fire beforehand tried to tell you nothing new
15.
kate and kelsey we will marry you on the road to north carolina strawberries in your hand we will take your hands promise to walk hand in hand because I cannot stand to be alone southern love affair love is truth or dare does the warm air make you nervous tobacco farmland will you learn to plow by hand promise to walk hand in hand because I cannot stand to be alone kate and kelsey we will marry you hate and jealousy carry a penalty that I don't think we can ignore if we bury all our plans fill our hearts with all the sand then we'd walk hand in hand because I cannot stand to be alone let's burn what we share love is a ruthless stare that your brown hair does not hide goodbyes are never grand love is timing where we stand even if we drop our hands because I cannot stand to be alone

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released July 7, 2009

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Bombadil Durham, North Carolina

Long-running folk-pop band, founded in Durham, NC. We look for beauty in the everyday, enjoy vocal harmonies, keyboards, fruity cocktails, and love performing in venues of all sorts.

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