1. |
Take This and Leave
06:34
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"Take This and Leave" lyrics by Lance Higdon.
My father told me
That only the grown-ups learn
What happens before they're are born
So we must be infants even now
Encased in the instant
The here and now
There aren't any words left for you
A moment shook them still
Shook them into silence
And set your will It's why we're standing, quiet
At opposite corners of an empty room
I know that you're staring
I still can't look at you and
I can't forgive you, though my pulse is quick
So when you finally open the door
Open the door into the silence
You go outside without a word
I will punch the walls
My hands weighted by missing violence
And scream until I'm sore
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2. |
Make Water Sand
08:20
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"Make Water Sand" lyrics co-written by Lance Higdon and Jeff Price (Last stanza).
Take coiled snares and change their shape
Take corpses’ shrouds and make them drapes
Throw your staffs and pick up snakes
Make the scoundrel stand
Let water drop and rust the cage
Bend common sense and build a maze
Breathe in the Gospel and spit out the phrase
Let my decision stand
Loot the relics and market them
Betray the witness and martyr him
Strip mine the sacred and remodel then
Make water sand
Wherefore no sorrowful passion
How come no loving look
Instead you offer inconstant fashion
And squandered sentences from simple books
We're written in the margins of your spaces
Afterthoughts about those hidden places
Between indulgences and screeds
Our arms are extended
With both hands open
Still we're strangers in all the worlds we've chosen
Though we shouldn't weep, it fills and need
[Lance Higdon's Latin part]
Ipsum deum manifesto in lumine vidi
Intrantem muros vocemque his auribus hausi
Desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis;
Non sponte sequor
[Next two parts spoken-sung simultaneously]
[Lance Higdon's part]
To you we show our varied strands
Wound together in charity
However uneasily
Forgive us, but we love them better
Than your ropes of sand
[Jeff Price's part]
Take a look inside
Take a look inside
Take a look inside
And what do you see
Take a look inside
And what do you see
Take my advise
Put your shoulders down
Take my advise
Put your shoulders down
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3. |
A Pilgrimage to Pergola
04:38
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"A Pilgrimage to Pergola" lyrics co-written by Jeff Price and Lance Higdon (Last stanza).
I feel the darkness chasing me
Finding me weak and vulnerable
A perfect guest to receive what it offers
I want to get past all that
But when I look outside of myself
All I see is the same old path
I need to know that there is more than all this
I need to see it; I need to feel it
Because my faith often fails me
And no one is showing me how to succeed
Take this life of mine and crush it
Then remold it in your image
Show me what it all means
How it all ties together
Please show me a glimpse
Even though I am not worthy
I had the dream again last night
So vivid, so real
I felt like I was surrounded by absolute love
And it never left me
I entered the first room and was taken back
Design and layout I had never seen or imagined
Through another door
Another room completely different
I was beside myself
[Next two parts sung simultaneously]
[Jeff Price's part]
Find me
And never let me go
Crush me
Then hold me up
Take me
And use me
[Lance Higdon's Latin part]
Aspice me, ut diligam te
Voca me, ut videam te
Et in aeternum fruar te
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4. |
Mitties
04:31
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They watch
They're scared
This is the outrage
Of the day
Go!
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5. |
People Impart
01:18
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The great façade
Is here once again
Holding hands
Holding hands with death
Little minds
With little ideas
Their timeless traditions
Running out of time
Greater still
The lie within the lie
Holding on
Holding on with fear
Feeble friction
With feeble bounds
And they really do
They really do get
All the pats
All the pats
All the pats
On the back
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6. |
Theories Upon
02:08
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7. |
On This Thread
03:43
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Hiding behind this mask that I’ve sealed
Hoping that no one knows
Knows that I am so afraid
Knows that I cannot feel
Feel what its like to be loved
Hoping for something real
Sliding down this hill that I’ve made
Fearful that someone sees
Sees that I‘m here all alone
Sees that I did not win
Win the prize that means I
I am someone
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8. |
Blue and White Fragments
08:55
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[Random words spoken by Mike Blackshear in intro]
Can’t we feel – feel the one far away
Can’t we feel – feel the one far away
Deny the words of those that feel out of place
And regard, regard the fools in the way
Can’t we see – see the one that got away
Can’t we see – see that we’re all the same
Blue and white balloons unleashed
From hands that bleed
Never mind that these hands feed them
The grass is no longer green
Where they stand
These motives move them
But the plan had no plan
See the giants stand on the hill
Handing out things for free
Some of which makes no sense at all
Hold out your hands anyway
And let the ones with heads like stone
Cut them until they no longer bleed
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9. |
Over and Down
06:37
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Can’t pretend I don’t care
So many people hating me
Hating me for calling them out
The price you pay for seeking the narrow way
Love is not blind
Love sees what it sees
And then some
To not speak out
That is hate
I loved them all and still do
But because they love this world
More than they love you
They hate me as they hate you
Their lives now close the case
As it does for anyone caught red-handed
Over and over it chases me
Chases my thoughts and my will
Down I go into the pit
Another hour wasted on worry
Another moment that I could have spent
Spent watching my daughter smile
Another chance to throw the ball
Throw the ball with my son
But no; I spent it on the notion
That it would somehow change things
With those that do not care
If I sat and thought about them
Over and over again
Trying to live
Trying to live my life beyond the line
Taking a chance
Taking a chance that nothing good is free
Holding on to absolutes
While the many hold on to distraction
I stay on and taste this path everyday
But in the end it will be worth every second
You would think time and age
Would change the angles and degrees
But all it has done
All it has done is secure their hate
I beg and beg often
Show me your cause
Show me your way
Show me how to continue
Loving those that hate me
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Tambersauro Houston, Texas
Formed in 2003, Tambersauro is a Houston-based trio. Mike Blackshear plays guitars, Lance Higdon plays drums, cymbals, and operates laptop, and Jeff Price plays bass guitar, keyboards, and provides vocals.
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