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I Fed Thee Rabbit Water

by Birdengine

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zorba72 This album is one of a kind. Period. Favorite track: Heads Off Dogs.
Travis Aaron
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Travis Aaron Outsider music from a place that never existed, meant for no one in particular. Every song here is a curiosity, connected to each other only by a strand of vaguely realized superstition. It's deeply stirring, and at times a little disturbing. Favorite track: Buried In The Black Snow.
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  • I Fed Thee Rabbit Water - Wax Sealed, Artwork CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Mini-Album released on Drfit Records 2007
    written, performed, recorded and mixed by birdengine
    Copyright © 2007 L.J Tilbury, card sleeve containing disc and booklet, sent in wax-stamped brown envelope with original artwork by Birdengine.

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1.
I SPENT THE SUMMER CUTTING HEADS OFF DOGS / I SPENT THE WINTER TRYING TO SEW THEM BACK ON / AND I NEVER THOUGHT OF NO-ONE SON / I HAVE TO LOCK YOU IN THE STORE TONIGHT / I HAD A LOT FOR YOU IN STORE ALRIGHT AND I’M WRITING THIS ALL DOWN / AND IN MY HEART IT FEELS UNDONE / AND BEHIND THAT DOOR THE GARDEN IS EVIL FOR SURE / I KNOW YOU I KNOW YOUR NAME IT’S FOUR AND IT’S FIVE IT’S SIX AND IT’S NINE / AND THERES THE LONG WAY EH? AND THE SHORT WAY TOO / IT’S FOUR AND IT’S FIVE IT’S SIX AND IT’S NINE / AND I WONDER MORE THAN I DID BEFORE / IT’S FOUR AND IT’S FIVE IT’S SIX AND IT’S NINE / AND I WONDER SO / IT WON’T LET GO IT WONT’ LET GO
2.
MONKEY FIVE / I’LL LAY THEE DOWN / I DON’T KNOW WHICH WAY OUR GOODNESS GROWS / AN ARMY HUNG FROM TREE / HIDE THE BODIES IN THE NIGHT / THE STRING I TIED AROUND MY LUCKY SHIN / WE’LL WIN / FOUND IN THE WEIRDEST FIELD
3.
BIRDS IN THE OUT HOUSE / AND FIRE IN THE AVIARY / YES SIR IT WAS ME IT WAS ME / ROW ROW ROW / BY THE WAYSIDE / MY EVIL TWIN DID DIE / IN A CIRCUS RING OR SOME CIRCUS THING / ROW ROW ROW
4.
HACK YOUR WAY FROM THE ARMS / FROM THE ARMS I SAY / WILL YOU NEVER GO AWAY? / I FED THEE RABBIT WATER / AS IF YOU ARE A KING TRAPPED IN A JAR / AS IF YOU ARE A HORSE WITH NO FACE / ON YOUR WAY / ON YOUR WAY I SAY / I DON’T KNOW I DO NOT KNOW / ONE SHOE ON AND THE OTHER IF A GIANT IS NEAR / WILL YOU NEVER DISAPPEAR? / HER YOUNG THROAT / THROAT / ALL THIS MOVEMENT TOWARDS ME TOWARDS MUST STOP / MUST STOP
5.
Dead Mermaid 02:49
MERMAID I HAVE WALKED FOR DAYS TO THE SEA TO THE SEA / OH MAN OH MAN NO PLEASE / RIVER TO SEA / OH WHY? / WHY AREN’T YOU SINGING SWEET SAD SONGS TO THE MOON? / TO THE MOON / TO THE MOON / I LOVED YOU I HELD YOU / I LOVED YOU I HELD YOU UNDER WATER / I HELD YOU / I WOULD LIKE TO BE WASHED UP BY THE SEA / JUST ME JUST ME
6.
DRESSED UP AS THE AUTUMN FOR YOU SAID YOU’D DO IT TOO BUT YOU WERE DRESSED UP AS A GIANT NUMBER NINE / THAT’S FINE / AND IF MY LEGS COULD TALK / AND IF MY LEGS COULD TALK / THEY WOULD SAY ‘THERE IS NO-ONE’ / THEY WOULD SAY ‘THERE IS NO-ONE’ / YOU GAVE BIRTH TO A HORSE AND THEN YOU RODE IT AROUND THE TOWN YOU DID / YOU RODE IT / RODE IT AROUND THE TOWN / THE TOWN / AND IF MY LEGS COULD TALK, / AND IF MY LEGS COULD TALK / THEY WOULD SAY ‘THERE IS NO-ONE’ THEY WOULD SAY ‘THERE IS NO-ONE’ / I KNOW THE GROUND IS LONG / I KNOW THERE’S SEVEN SEAS / I KNOW THE SKY IS A SONG / I KNOW THERE'S SEVEN SEAS
7.
I COULD LIVE BY THE RIVER / I COULD STAND STILL IN BETWEEN THE TREES / AND TALK TO THE LIVESTOCK / I COULD SEW MY EYELIDS CLOSED / WITH BIRDS ALL AROUND / AND I’D NEVER WISH TO BE ALL AROUND / WITH A STICK FOR AN ARM / AND A HUNTERS NET FOR A FRIEND / HOW A BIRD CAME DOWN / HOW A GIANT BIRD CAME DOWN AND STOLE A CHILD FROM OFF THE GROUND / IT WAS NOT ME INSIDE A COSTUME / OH MY OH MY WORD / BURN IT IN THE SKY / HANG THEM ON THE HILL SIDE / DANCING IN A SIDESHOW / BURIED IN THE BLACK SNOW / SEE YOU IN THE MORNING / SAY OH MY OH MY WORD / UNA NOCHE PERFECTA PARA MORIR / WHO WERE YOU UNDER?

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2007 Mini-Album DFT003
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Drift Records

'Tilbury displays the same quiet understatement and backwards weirdness as Bonnie 'prince' Billy, but transposed to Dorset. Listening to I fed Three Rabbit Water is like visiting a museum of curiosities packed with shelves of malformed foetuses and two-headed dogs pickled in jars; the songs are full of rustic-mythic weirdness...'

The Independent


'Tilbury's music has the nervy pastoral loneliness of immediately post-Barrett Floyd (think *Cirrus Minor* and *Julia Dream* from *Relics*), relishing every scrape of fingers on acoustic strings, every rough edge of cracking voice. The intimate detail of sound - recorded entirely on 4-track cassette - is a reminder of how much of an intrusion digital meddling with music can be; the birdsong on *The Evil Twin* sounds as far from affectation as it could be. There's a witchy weirdness to this all - titles like *You Gave Birth To A Horse* give that away - but it's a very beautiful record.'

Word Magazine


'magic and mysticism in the music's eerie simplicity. Tilbury spins tales of mermaids, dead rulers in glass prisons and the lunar cycle, never once leaving his fingers on a single note for too long crafting what sounds like an effortless aura of shrouded calm destined for desolate pastures and walkmans alike……..'

music-zine.com


'...dark and sinister nu-folk from the backwoods of deepest Dorest...has a strange and compelling beauty .'

Maverick Magazine



'Leonard Cohen in a Thomas Hardy novel.'

subba-cultcha.com


'...magically creepy and sparsely epic, capturing the imagination with tales of dead mermaids, kings trapped in jars, feral children and the moon...achingly melancholic...Both unnerving and intriguing in equal measures.'

Americana UK

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released February 3, 2007

Written, Performed and Produced by Lawry Joseph Tilbury
Mastered by Steve Grainger
Copyright © 2007 LJ Tilbury

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Birdengine England, UK

Pastoral Horror Folk, Electronic, Found Sound & Experimental Field Recordings. Birdengine is the project of Lawry Joseph Tilbury, whose unique music has been described by The Independent as 'rustic-mythic weirdness' and by Uncut as 'wonderfully atmospheric'. ... more

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