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No Mothers EP

by NO MOTHERS

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1.
Bicycle 03:51
when I first moved here I was just seventeen had good ideas but was young and naive I bought a bicycle but it treated me so mean so I went searching for a kinder machine I walked for ages down streets I'd never been until I found a shop I'd seen in a dream inside was a bearded man as big as a tree his mouth was filled with gold he smelled like the sea and he said: boy I know you've come a long way indeed but don't you trouble -- I've got just what you need and in the corner was the bike of my dreams it shone like lightening. It had twenty-three speeds! bicycle oh bicycle bicycle you're shining so keen! bicycle yeah bicycle! me and my bike we're a fiercer shade of green make me an offer boy but don't waste my time you can search around but it's the last of its kind it's old as the Buddha but it's riding so fine it'll take you anywhere it'll turn on a dime when you're feeling heavy it'll cross any line this bike's a racehorse oh my god can it fly! bicycle oh bicycle bicycle you're burning so clean! bicycle yeah bicycle! me and my bike we're a fiercer shade of green I held out a rooster's tooth and a firefly's shine a perfect seashell an original rhyme a burning matchstick and a mercury dime two matching snowflakes cured in dandelion wine he shook my hand said "son that's fair as can be" and I said "thank you sir for setting me free!" bicycle oh bicycle bicycle tell me where you gonna go? bicycle yeah bicycle! as for me and my bike we will serve the road
2.
Burn It Down 04:16
there's an itch that you've been scratchin and it doesn't broker choice there's desire you've been hatchin but you don't wanna give it voice well you've been sleeping for so long, my friend it is time you had awoke for we've dreamt that summer flame now arise to the smell of smoke burn it down, burn it down smash your idols on the ground make an offering, say a prayer watch the cinders swirl around burn it down burn it down, my love, and we will sow that blackened field where flowers grow there's a river, there's an ocean there's a poison drop of rain there's a sickness there's no potion bones are risin in the drain well that stew is growin thick my friend set the table boil the rags for that feast will soon be ready fill your lungs with the song of plague there's a chain that you've been wearin and a furnace in your eyes there's a pain that you've been bearin calm your worries give a sigh well your blood is runnin hot, my friend there is pleasure on your breath and that chain will soon be glowin free your mind of the fear of death
3.
where's the path to guide me? show me where to go cuz my feet are tired of stumbling through this cold and trackless snow I've poured through maps and atlases just to try and understand where it is I have come from and where it is I am but those maps they showed me nothing and they've fallen from my hands are mine the only footprints in this vast and wild land? I'll follow my heart my heart my beating heart if I'd been a little wiser I'd have done so from the start but I can't be blamed for learning all the lessons of my toil and all I have lost to sorrow I will someday find as joy at the end of every nighttime a new day waits to show another road to point me to my far away already home may the wind dissolve the footprints that tell of where I have roamed I will leave no lasting gestures no graven marks in stone may I be swallowed utterly by time which claims all things for I am just a melody while the wild wind still sings
4.
I've got a body in time you've got a body also let's move our bodies in time oh come on move together you've got a body like mine and yours is dancing also let's move our bodies in time oh come on move together come on move together I keep these models in mind the sun the moon the atom the rise and fall of the tide the blood that pumps inside us and if we're moving in time I know good things will happen the walls will fall to the side if we just move together oh let me tell you now to sing to laugh to dance around I got so high I ain't never come down the day the night the sound it's hard to keep my feet on the ground if things don't go like you hoped they would yeah put your best foot forward the moment can't bear but change get back the good good feeling if trouble follows you round you gotta keep in motion the moment can't bear but change oh come on move together come on move together I see you're moving so fine yeah we're so glad you joined us thank you for sharing your time and all your good emotion our dance is inside and out our song is brightly coloured we're gonna shake it and shout be heard for miles and miles come on move together
5.
I am a man of constant sorrow I've known troubles all my day I bid farewell to south alberta the place where I was born and raised the place where he was born and raised! for six long years I've been in trouble no pleasure here on earth I've found for in this world I'm bound to ramble I have no friends to help me now he has no friends to help him now! now it's farewell to thee my gentle lover I do not think we'll meet again for I am bound to ride that northern railroad perhaps I'll die upon this train you can bury me in some deep valley for many years there I may lay then you may learn to love another while I am sleeping in my grave while he is sleeping in his grave!

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This album was recorded through the summer of 2015, edited through the autumn, and released on the cusp of the winter solstice. It is the first record we've made together as a full band and we're super proud of it.
We made it for you.

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released December 19, 2015

No Mothers is:
John Kastelic: viola & vocals
Tony Kastelic: viola & vocals
Paul Patko: drums
Michael Vaughan: upright bass

Accordion on track 5 by Mike Bell

Produced by John Kastelic, Tony Kastelic, and David Spidel
Recorded at Redlight Recording, Vancouver, BC
Recorded and Mixed by David Spidel
Mastered by Jamie Sitar
Cover photo by Kale Beaudry; klphotograph.com
Design by John Kastelic

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NO MOTHERS Vancouver, British Columbia

No Mothers changed its name to Salt Thief in 2018.

There's more viola folk rock fury to be found on our website: www.saltthief.com
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