Bombed
Mark Lanegan * Track #6 On Bubblegum
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Album Bubblegum
- #1When Your Number Isn’t Up
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- #2Hit the City
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- #3Wedding Dress
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- #4Methamphetamine Blues
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- #5One Hundred Days
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- #6Bombed
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- #7Strange Religion
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- #8Sideways in Reverse
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- #9Come to Me
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- #10Like Little Willie John
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- #11Can’t Come Down
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- #12Morning Glory Wine
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- #13Head
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- #14Driving Death Valley Blues
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- #15Out of Nowhere
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Bombed by Mark Lanegan
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A brief haunting song with Lanegan’s then-wife Wendy Rae Fowler on backing vocals. Apparently, she had never heard the song played before recording her part, so she had to figure out the melody from Mark’s part as she went. He ended up liking it, so it became the first and final take.
Bombed Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Love, there are flowers hanging in the vine
So high you cannot see
Now my mind must go on holiday
Torn from it's hook, a broken valentine
[Verse 2]
I see the smoke from a revolver
Will I get hit? I hardly care
When I'm bombed
I stretch like bubblegum
And look too long straight at the morning sun
[Verse 3]
Love, there are flowers along the avenue
All things perfectly in place
I build a shrine
I set a monument
Because you're fire
Because you're a fire escape
Bombed Q&A
Who wrote Bombed's ?
Bombed was written by Mark Lanegan.
Who produced Bombed's ?
Bombed was produced by Mark Lanegan & Chris Goss.
When did Mark Lanegan release Bombed?
Mark Lanegan released Bombed on Tue Aug 10 2004.
What did Mark Lanegan say about "Bombed"?
In his book I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings, Lanegan discussed the recording of “Bombed”:
While many of the songs [on the album] came from a place of dejection and ennui at the end of a tempestuous relationship, “Bombed” in particular came about when, after I had written and recorded it in jus...