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Thomasson Bomb

by 13 Howell

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    Compact disc of the album Thomasson Bomb by 13 Howell. Includes 13 songs from 13 Howell released January 2023. Album artwork and design by Neil Johnston. Recorded at Sparta Sound. Produced by 13 Howell and Rich Mattson. Paper sleeve.

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1.
Under The Gun 03:58
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Can't leave it alone Can't leave it alone Can't leave it alone Well I'm just saying Can't leave it alone Can't leave it alone Can't leave it alone Hell I ain't playing You know I'd be the one To live under the gun Just leave me alone Just leave me alone Just leave me alone Why don't you hear me? Don't leave me alone Just leave me alone Don't leave me alone Can't you forget me? You know I'd be the one To live under the gun Remember me to the little ones Remember me to the little ones Remember me to the little ones You know I'd be the one To live under the gun Remember me to the little ones Remember me to the little ones Remember me to the little ones
2.
Honey 04:24
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It's all about the honey. You know it tastes so sweet Caramel candy stuck to my teeth Stuck to my fingers, stuck to my tongue Babe, I want to get some, I'm such a hungry one Holes, they call for filling Down and down they go Their hunger's never ending Where they stop no one, no one knows It's all about the money, you know there ain't enough Not at the bottom 'cause it's all at the top So I'm going to build it, watch them come Gonna fill up my pockets, gonna make me a ton, a ton Holes, they call for filling Down and down they go Their hunger's never ending Where they stop no one, no one knows Tell me, do they love me? Well I'm not so sure Put my name on the marquee, why that might be a cure Put my name on the Top Ten, show that I'm best Cause my ego, my ego, my ego tells me I'm less Holes, they call for filling Down and down they go Their hunger's never ending Where they stop no one, no one knows
3.
Day Of Pentecost 04:51
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Listen children from the land of cold hard reason You may not know that this is the time and this is the season Up ahead there's a storm cloud growing It's the wind of God that's blowing, yah But thousands, they stand in a line They dance and sing until it's their time Now me I'm from the land of cold and ice and snow I've got my heart, it's built into this wall of stone I'm not the kind of man who will shake or holler I'm not going to get down on my knees Not going to follow. Follow. No. No But thousands, they stand in a line They dance and sing until it's their time They come up and feel the wind blow They'll feel their maker and they'll know And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah And they sing Glory, Hallelujah Glory Glory Glory Glory Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo Glory Glory Glory Glory
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Rocket 04:23
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Gusts of un-mended wind Force the needle forward Cutting through the atmosphere The rocket raced onward The friction was keen To disintegrate The skin of the exterior walls But the engineers fought With numbers and facts Forcing the vacuum to yield it all Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Launching forward Through the sky My mind soared like that rocket high But your voice returned Grounding my thoughts Crash landing in a pile of pain Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh I'm here at the top of the world And I don't think that I'll be coming home Oh oh oh oh When you're at the top of the world And all you've got is the end of a microphone Oh oh oh oh Gusts of un-mended wind Force the needle forward Cutting through the atmosphere The rocket raced onward Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh I'm here at the top of the world And I don't think that I'll be coming home Oh oh oh oh When you're at the top of the world And all you've got is the end of a microphone Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
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Sisyphus 03:38
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The grass is green at the bottom of the hill The earth is quiet and it's still where I lay my head And all I want to do is rest Catch my breath in my heaving chest Well my legs are heavy and my hands are numb My skin is blistered from the sun Why can't I just stop a bit Don't you know I'm sick of it Ah stop On my knees and on my feet There's a great big rock awaiting me Man, it's heavy, it weighs a lot But this big old rock is all I've got Way up high, miles to go I push so hard it moves so slow On my knees and on my feet This rock is now my destiny When I get there this I know The rock wont stay its going to roll When I get there this I know The rock won't stay its going to roll You know the thing about this gig The gig's a game and the game is rigged Maybe it's that I'm just too smart I figured things out that I should not But when you are as smart as me You see behind Eternity Eternity is just a game A game that's rigged, a game of blame Ah stop On my knees and on my feet There's a great big rock awaiting me Man, it's heavy, it weighs a lot But this big old rock is all I've got Way up high, miles to go I push so hard it moves so slow On my knees and on my feet This rock is now my destiny When I get there this I know The rock wont stay its going to roll When I get there this I know The rock won't stay its going to roll When I get there this I know The rock wont stay its going to roll When I get there this I know The rock won't stay its going to roll
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Turner's Falls 05:58
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He scattered words like these From yellow eyes he did From yellow eyes he opened to the night And the smoke it fell By the pages that he wrote By the pages that he pealed from his skin Take your fingers if you must Spread them wide across my face Spread them wide and take a measure If you want But my shadows been replaced By books and cigarettes Cigarettes and falling ash upon the floor Yae yay Yae yay Yae yay Yae yay On A Road he'd read By the Plymouth that he'd slept in By the Plymouth turned to paper Turned to seed By the green glass sea And the city made of trees In the city where he learned a secret fire And he showed me these On the trail on his arm On his arm where the tracks Led to the night But my shadows been replaced By books and cigarettes Cigarettes and dirty spoons upon the floor Yae yay Yae yay Yae yay Yae yay Turner's Falls Wrapped tightly round your arm Snow and poppies Fall there nightly Turner's Falls Where the people Sleep in shrouds In their boxes Sleep there nightly Turner's Falls Wrapped tightly round your arm Snow and poppies Fall there nightly Turner's Falls Where the people Sleep in shrouds In their boxes Sleep there nightly, yah
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Spider in the Bathtub 07:10
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Bring Hello Oh yeah I totally got something to tell you about what happened today Oh yeah U-huh yeah Its jusasas just been just such a weird day I can't even explain it Uh huh Yeah I'll hold Oh yeah I like your music Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh By the old spot left on the ceiling Near top of the corner of the wall In light of the start of the evening When the sun begins to fall He sits there quietly scheming Thinking up all of his plans With his hundred eyes all gleaming He stares into the ceiling fan Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh A-R-A-C-H-N-I-D Arachnid, arachnid, arachnid, arachnid A-R-A-C-H-N-I-D He spends all the day just working For the family that lives in the house And you'd think he might get some credit Like a cat who chases a mouse He keeps them from getting bit by the gnats The skeeters and the flys and the bugs and the bats And you'd think that they'd praise him Love him and thank him Try and accept him instead of reject him But what does he hear And what does he say At the end of the night and the start of the day There's a spider in my bathtub Get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in the bathtub Spider in the bathtub Spider in the bathtub There's a spider in the bathtub A Spider in the bathtub A Spider in the bathtub Arachnid, arachnid yeah did you see the eyes on that thing My god and those hairy legs ohh ahhhh In the clay of ancient tablets And the cover of the daily news Are a list of kings and heroes And the book by old Sun Tzu And nowhere in the musings Of Homer Walt and Lee Do they ever talk of the spider In words most tenderly They call him a monster a pest and a villain Instead of kindness they keep trying to kill him And what does he hear And what does he say At the end of the night and the start of the day There's a spider in my bathtub Get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in my bathtub get him out There's a spider in the bathtub Spider in the bathtub Spider in the bathtub There's a spider in the bathtub A spider in the bathtub A spider in the bathtub He's so hairy A-R-A-C-H-N-I-D It's an arachnid A-R-A-C-H-N-I-D There's an arachnid It's an arachnid in my bathtub Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Get him out 2 3 4 I don't know the notes Get him out Get him out of my bathtub I know but I can't take anymore
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Protection 03:34
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Paper 04:24
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That's all paper falling to the ground Don't you remember? Didn't you hear that sound? Don't be down Don't be so beaten down, my love In case it all goes Remember that you were beautiful And how I wanted you Kiss my life away but take some time for it While all my pieces lie Soaking in this kind of light Its a broken measure That makes us feel so sad and shattered Throw the curtains down Come into my maybe My could be Like a candle for me, babe Bring it down I'll be rising lightly Toss my should of could away Gone all these stations Smile and waive And say goodbye Say goodbye Say goodbye Say goodbye Cold, black water is rising from the ground Tape on the window Don't make a sound I think I'm going down I think we're going down Like paper on the ground Not lost and yet not found, found Like a candle for me, babe Bring it down I'll be rising lightly Toss my should of could away Gone all these stations Smile and waive And say goodbye Say goodbye Say goodbye Say goodbye Yah Oh
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Curragh of Kildare 03:19
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Chuck, Charles You have been eighty-sixed Take your stuff and go Hey Chuck, Hey Chuck, Chuck Put that away The winter it has passed And the summer's come at last And the birds they are singing in the trees Their little hearts are blessed But mine is not at rest For my true love is far away from me The rose upon the briar By the water running free Gives joy to the linnet and the bee Their little hearts are blessed But mine is not at rest For my true love is far away from me A Livery I'll wear and I'll comb back my hair In velvet so green I will appear And straight I will repair To the Curragh of Kildare For it's there I'll find tidings of my dear One, two, three, six Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear You who are in love And cannot it remove I pity the pain that you endure For experience lets me know That your hearts are full of woe And a woe that no mortal can endure And it's straight I will repair To the Curragh of Kildare For it's there I'll find tidings of my dear One, two, three, six Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Say goodbye to everyone Say goodbye to everyone It's there I'll find tidings of my dear Yeah, woo hoo hoo The winter it has passed And the summer's come at last
11.
Truth 03:17
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I think I'm going to find Something hidden in her laughter It could be love Because it's so right, right, right, right, right, right, yeh What we try to speak out loud Becomes weight upon our shoulder But I'll be bold And say what I say, yeh The oldest secret locked away Is the one I see when she walks my way The oldest secret locked away Is the one I see when she walks my way It becomes my truth Now I told you I imagine That I'll try to be that man I'll fall again tonight When I see the coming lifetime Take now all the parts of me And I'll spin them round and round I'm in love Tell the stars to fall down The oldest secret locked away Is the one I see when she walks my way The oldest secret locked away Is the one I see when she walks my way It becomes my truth It's not a phase, its not a phase It's not a phase, phase, phase, phase It's not a phase, phase, phase, phase Its not a phase, its not a phase It's not a phase Phase Its not Its not
12.
March of The Hares 05:53
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The captain of the angry ones Said you'd better blow your horn And gather up the faithful And those about to fall He said there is a noble sun For each and every boy Prepared to pay the highest price Until the deed is done And oh can you feel it in the wind Coming like a hurricane To wash away our sin And oh now we've come to the end To where we finally drew the line Between us and them Out beyond the dandelions Well they're sharpening their claws They work themselves into a rage With teeth in open maws And now they call for bravery For what must be done They cast their worries to the side As they start to run And oh can you feel it in the wind Coming like a hurricane To wash away our sin And oh now we've come to the end To where we finally drew the line Between us and them Someday they'll sing a song for us Of how we brought it down Of how we brooked no compromise As we spread across the town Of how we came unto the end No longer could we wait To quiet our poor broken hearts We cast ourselves to fate And oh can you feel it in the wind Coming like a hurricane To wash away our sin And oh now we've come to the end To where we finally drew the line Between us and them Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh Between us and them Oh oh oh
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Mundo 03:12
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Es un mundo de causa y efecto Cuando hay viento va a caer Lo puedo negar Pero lo debo reconocer Hay un arbol con fruta pesada Cuando hay viento va a caer Lo puedo negar Pero lo debo reconocer Es un hecho seguro Cuando siento tu beso Voy a caer Voy a caer O o o Siempre era soltero Y vivia sin una mujer Lo puedo negar Pero lo debo reconocer La flecha sale del arco Y llega a mi corazon Lo puedo negar Pero lo debo reconocer Es un hecho seguro Cuando siento tu beso Voy a caer Voy a caer O o o oooooo

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In Thomasson Bomb, 13 Howell has crafted a lost-wax collection of songs about loss, detachment, recovery, and hope. Each of the album’s 13 tracks is a freestanding oddity made of scar tissue, each telling its own story. These songs are funny and dark, gentle and sweet, intensely serious and faintly ridiculous. They are peopled by ironic narrators who wrestle with desire, fall in love, live in fear, yearn for home, and say goodbye.

There is a Japanese conceptual art called Thomasson that examines carefully preserved artifacts of the constructed environment where original function has faded to the point of becoming found art. Thomassons are haunting memories of a former world, vestiges that stubbornly refuse to budge, scar tissue left behind as a testament to trauma, resilience, and reinvention. Its original function forgotten, it nevertheless persists, becoming something new through the passage of time and habits of care.

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released January 20, 2023

Deidre Caron-Guitar, Vocals
Chris Gerrard-Guitar, Vocals
Neil Johnston-Bass, Vocals, Bodhran
Scott Schwister-Drums

All songs Gerrard/ arr. 13 Howell
Except - Rocket: Johnston/Gerrard/arr. 13 Howell
and Curragh of Kildare Trad. R Burns/arr. 13 Howell

Recorded at Sparta Sound
Produced by 13 Howell and Rich Mattson
Mastered by Tom Garneau at Audioactive
Album Art & Design Neil Johnston

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In thomassonbomb, 13 Howell has crafted a lost-wax collection of songs about loss, detachment, recovery, and hope. Each of the album’s 13 tracks is a thomasson, a freestanding oddity made of scar tissue, each telling its own story. These songs are funny and dark, gentle and sweet, intensely serious and faintly ridiculous. Thomassons are haunting memories of a former world. ... more

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