For Lovers & the Lonely Alike

by Thom & the Tomcats

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    This album was recorded twice. The first recordings and back-ups were destroyed in a flood after 9 months of work. There was a 6 month gap before we could start recording again. Then, we did it in 4 months.

    In retrospect, this album should be called "Thom Coombes & Friends" rather than Thom & the Tomcats. This was my first proper release, and I felt it was different, and bigger than a "thom coombes" solo album, per se.

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Recorded by Matt Fudge January - May 2010
Mastered by Thom.

credits

released 06 March 2012
Thom Coombes: guitars, vocals, bass, banjo
Matt Fudge: drums
Ryan Weys: harmonica
Kate Pike, Laura Babineau, Danielle Bailey, Meghan Harnum: vocals

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tags: alternative country diy folk rock & roll uneasy listening St John's

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Track Name: Everything Is Temporary / One Year
Grew up in a small town, small enough to see you around.
We never lost touch, but I don’t see you as much now.
I’ve been above, I’ve been below, I’ve been in love, I’ve been alone. It’s beautiful and kinda scary, how everything is temporary.
Some get sad and some get stoned while others waste away watching TV shows.
When we get high, do we ever get low. When we get by, we don’t know where to go.

♥

You know the way that I am, and I know the way that you are. How can we see where we’re going if we can’t see where we are?
I can wait one year, but I can’t waste one year.
Decisions pull in different directions, and they weigh on my back. I can’t even think of the right questions that I should learn to ask.
I can be so impatient. I used to be so calm. Now every other day I feel anxious. Every other day I am down.
Don’t you take it to heart. Don’t let it get to your head. Leave your dreams at the doorstep, if they’re already dead.
Track Name: Burning Bridges, Burning Boats
We tried to find a different kind of space and sound.
We drank a lot of wine, waste a lot of time, just hanging around.
Now I sleep to the sound of downtown, come look out my window;
the cheers and the jeers from too many beers, coming from the crowd below.
You can burn your bridge, you can burn your boat, you can stay, or you can go. But if you do, then I hope that you don’t try to climb, crawl, swim back or float.
Trying to pay back what I never had, trying to get back in the game.
I’m not saying what everybody’s playing, but I lost it all the same.
It’s better behind you than inside you, I got you beside me.
It’s cold and bitter in the middle of the winter, better get a cup of tea.
Now I walk through the snow like I don’t know that it’s even there.
You can give a damn about the sun and the sand, but I don’t really care.
My face disappeared behind a beard, and I grew out my hair.
I had my grandfather’s coat, a cough and a cold, but it’s that time of year.
Track Name: Break Me
Hold me like you own me,
don’t let me get lonely.
You’ve been away for so long,
make me feel like I belong.
Tell me, tell me with all that time
to yourself have you changed your mind.
I don’t care if you hurt me in the end,
you could be my lover, you can be my best friend.
Nothing sworn when I swallowed your spit, you said “keep the bed warm, keep the lamp lit.”
"That was fair, that was fine,"
I said and I closed my eyes.
I could hear my heart divide
into a million little lies.
Heaven is a place inside my heart
that I didn’t steal and I ain’t gonna start.
All the things that we can’t undo,
we can let them evolve into something new.
If you take me into your home
then I’ll make my bed before I go.
And in the arms of a stranger,
I feel no danger,
I just want to stay there
as we close our eyes and we don’t compare.

Break me like you make me know that you’re still there.
Hold me like you own me, show me you still care.

We stayed up all night listening to records,
some I picked out and some that you favoured,
and I went to work so damn tired
that I fell asleep and almost got fired.
That night I was back at your house,
I was looking at you, trying to figure you out.
Hell is a place you can hold,
and you can’t let go, or so I’m told.
You said “Don’t be a hero or a gentleman,
the door is open, come on in,
Take off your clothes and throw them to the floor,
we don’t need those anymore.”
Well it’s don’t look back and it’s don’t look down,
when we get the fuck outta this town
cause my fingers are crossed and my shoes are tied,
but I can’t run that far if I tried.
Decisions to make and a heart to break,
all it takes is one mistake
for everything to be ruined,
when we don’t know exactly what we’re doing.
But I don’t care if you hurt me in the end,
when you take me by the hand.
I don’t care if you hurt me in the end,
you could be my lover you can be my best friend.
Track Name: Finally Behind Me
When all is finally behind me,
I’m alone with a memory.
I’m tired of talking,
of running and walking,
explaining, expressing,
adhering and addressing
lies between the truth
between the walls of me and you.

When all is finally behind me,
I’ve wine in my belly.
If it’s white or if it’s red,
then it’s gone to my head.
After some whiskey
we won’t feel so shitty,
but you drink a beer
and you start telling me how much you care

And you say: “I hear those dogs lay their heads
On my empty bed,
and wait for me to come back.”

When all is finally behind me,
I’m alone with everybody
and that’s when you know that you’re nobody.
It’s finally behind you
and you’re in solitude.
It hardly seems worth it yet
you still try to push it
a little further than it ever was before,
while a voice in your head is wondering “what for?”

When all is finally behind me
I wonder aimlessly,
try to get some rest
and hope for the best.
Then I can leave as quietly as I came,
while having known, we won’t ever feel the same way again.
Track Name: Tarnished & Tainted
I fell in love with a girl from a book,
I liked the way that she looked.
Thru the pictures I’ve painted,
I am tarnished and tainted.

But I had tried to explain.
But everything I said sounded the same.

You’ve got the moon and the sun
resting on the tip of your tongue.
Decisions get lost if they take too long.
The place is right but the timing’s all wrong.

We were down to the minute of the last visit.
I didn’t know what to say -it killed me.
I walked away so hollow and empty.

But I had tried to explain…
But everything I said sounded the same...
Track Name: Oh, I'm Sure
Oh, I’m sure,
that it’s harder now than it’s ever been before.
If you were so unhappy, you could have just said something
at all, to avoid a wall.
If you were so unhappy you should have said anything at all.

Oh, I’m sure,
that it’s quieter now than it ever was before.
A house without movement is sand paper soothing.
There’s no sound in the lost and found.
In a house without movement there’s no sound at all.

Oh, I’m sure,
that I know less than I’ve ever known before.
I did not see this coming like a slow man running,
last place in the fast lane.
Expect the unexpected,
with a cardiac arrested
I didn’t hear you move at all.
Track Name: Turning 20
I went to the liquor store.
I was like a kid in a candy store,
I passed the clerk my change and asked what I could afford.
She passed me a flask
and said “don’t drink this one too fast,
try to save some for tomorrow.”
Now it only takes a bit of tequila,
before it feels like a good idea
to get back together again.
So put on another pot of coffee,
I can only hope that it’s gonna stop me
when you wake me up and ask me
“what happened?”

Because down, deep down, I know how to drown,
and deeper down I hurt everyone that I care about.

Been to the back of the bar,
been wondering where you are,
until I could almost see the sun.
How could I feel so empty
when I am only 20 years young.
Track Name: Folk Song
It's calm before the storm
-always happens in a happy home.
There's a cost to getting lost,
it might just bring you down.
Falling into place and then falling out
is not the same as falling apart.
It's not knowing just where you're going
that leaves you in the dark.

Just when I am settled in,
I have to find a new place to begin
and start all over again.

Some things are hard to hold.
You gotta try to change before getting cold,
because it's after all the laughter
when the joke gets old.
You know that you’re living fast
when the present is the future's past
but it's fun for one so try to let it last.

I'm not here too long.
This time next month I'll be gone.
And all I can sing is a folk song
-just some shitty little folk song.
Track Name: My Folks
Once I made a foolish mistake.
When I got to the point it was too late.
It came like a train when I could relate.
If only I had learned to wait.

You jump back when you fall thru the cracks.
I’ve been falling forever trying to keep on track.
I’ve been running like I’m under attack.
There’s nothing there except for a past.

I hope my folks understand.
I don’t always hold a plan.

There are dreams that you have to haunt,
while there’s already enough to make you daunt.
You say that you’re ready, don’t go if you’re not.
You can go whenever you want.

I was walking away from you, still facing you.
I was spacing myself, still embracing you.
But we’re a long way from nothing now, so what are you so afraid of?
It’s true that I’m afraid of the pain of love. I hope my folks understand.

For the first time in a long time, I’ve got a plan.
Track Name: Under the Weather
When the rain finally came
you had an umbrella.
Our bodies and hands pressed against
one another.

We walked home together,
feeling under the weather.

A grin so thin was a place to begin
for something more,
like the smile so wide that kept the sun inside
to feel warm

even though it was cold while
walking down your road.

The rain came hard like cats and dogs.
I don't know what that means.
But it feels better to be under the weather
than in my dreams.

I did not want the rain to stop.
I did not want to come out
from under your umbrella,
from one another.
Track Name: You've Been Asleep
You use your mind,
unconscious and blind.
You flow through my head
as I lay awake in bed

while you’ve been asleep,
through fucked up dreams.
I hope you can see
what’s underneath.

You can sleep away the stars,
you can be just who you are,
But I’ve got a hole in my hat,
I’m not sure if you could sleep thru that

because I’ve been awake
when it’s tedious and fake,
and you can’t concentrate
when it’s almost too late.

I only see through the corners of my eyes.
They only speak in lies.
My body will turn on me.
At night, I’m my worst enemy.

While you've been asleep...
Track Name: Climb
Once I was told
by a woman who was cold
that all of your faults turn to gold.

Once I told someone
if you're ever feeling numb
climb a tree, you learn to be more fun.

I hear everybody say
that everything goes away
so I hold on as long as I may.