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Horses in Drag​/​Horses in Heat

by The Hover Mothers

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1.
Harvesting bones on the dust bowl's floor My body hums like a thousand trains I'm grinding with snakes while the vultures toil I'd set myself on fire for some rain I flee to the east and I flee to the west Nothing moves but the shadows and the sun I'm dying to leave but I've got no beef with the west because you know I am the beast of the east Well I've got no sense of urgency I've got no friends So I'll just lock myself away inside this opium den When they unhinge their jaws and swallow smoke I'll wait for the storm Then I'll arise and pack my bags and head for lines of the horse The things I see in silence and the things I hear when blind Can't compare to all the fingers that I'm feeling in my mind It's stroking my brain I can't remember my name I've got to get out of this opium den...
2.
Let us speak to you in private Out on the sidewalk We're about to steal the horses from underneath your hood Then we really must be going But if you need a ride We'll gladly drop your body off in the woods Thanks for understanding This carjacking It's time you really now just who we are But that the next time that you see me Please believe me I'm coming straight for you and your car.
3.
Instrumental
4.
Transmission 03:48
5.
Hey, boy! Welcome to Moscow You're going to help your comrades to prolong this war 'Cause I've been having dreams 8 bits at a time And there's no way I'm going to let them take the Berlin Wall Get out of line, we're going to roll you like a cigarette Counting to five then your work will begin You've got the brains and they've got the TVs Going to hypnotize the kids so the Cold War won't end Oh, Alexey! How will it end? You were my hostage and now we are friends Oh, Alexey! How will it end? Oh... 'Cause everybody knows you end up in gulag If you spit on the sidewalk. But that's not our concern anymore Our concern anymore

about

This batch of songs was recorded over the past 2+ years. Notice the far-from-perfect recording, the uncorrected mistakes, the doing-it-on-the-fly sub-par mixing. The Hover Mothers do not believe in recording and re-recording until something sounds perfect. We are not Fleetwood Mac. We like noise. And fuzz. We rarely worry about tuning. Traditional song structure is for the upper class elite. Our collective attention span is dreadful. Greg and Sam are talented drummers. Mike is not but he makes up for it by being a really good speller.

SUBJECT MATTER:

1. This song is about a stranger getting lost in the middle of a barren swath of America only to end up in an opium den.

2. This next one is about a band of carjackers who are infinitely more interested in crashing cars than driving them.

5. Finally, we have a song about the co-creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, being kidnapped and forced to create a product that will 'hypnotize and brainwash' the west into allowing The Cold War to continue. This never happened.

3 and 4 are instrumentals about whatever you want them to be...but 4 is clearly about space exploration.

IMPORTANT: The Hover Mothers don't care about money. We care about community. This means that the release is available as a free download. If, however, you wish to contribute, please be advised that your donation will be passed on to various social programs in Carlisle.

Hope Station; www.hopestationcarlisle.org
YWCA; ywcacarlisle.org
Carlisle Victory Circle; www.carlislevictorycircle.org

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released January 24, 2017

Michael Landis: Bass, Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Tapes, Percussion
Greg Rand: Drums, Percussion
Sam Daub: Percussion, Drums, Keys

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