Name: Happy As a Clam
Duration: P00H02M01S
Description: Only Bleakness. Once, years after this was recorded, Mike Montgomery from Eli Paperboy Reed's band called me up on the phone from a bar to ask me what the origin of the phrase "Happy As a Clam" was. Turns out it's shortened from "happy as a clam at high tide," since clams can't be found and dug up at high tide.

Happy As a Clam

from There Are Bones in the Trees by Boy Without God

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Only Bleakness. Once, years after this was recorded, Mike Montgomery from Eli Paperboy Reed's band called me up on the phone from a bar to ask me what the origin of the phrase "Happy As a Clam" was. Turns out it's shortened from "happy as a clam at high tide," since clams can't be found and dug up at high tide.

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many months ago
before it all began
I cried tears of snow
happy as a clam

harbor no regrets
harbor no hopes
hollow out your home
hang your walls with rope

let it not be said
that i went like a lamb
words won’t raise the dead
only time can

water up above
water down below
four white birds are the ones
departed before the snow

i have no remorse
i have no surprise
the meek become the earth
no one ever cries
I don’t even try

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from There Are Bones in the Trees, released December 1, 2006

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