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two bicycles

by Nesey Gallons

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1.
cold weather bring your arms to my bed i fell off a building writing letters to photographs seen in the evenings oh! tug at my shoelace tonight silhouettes will follow you and mount photo will be haunting you and ill be alone in the house cold weather bring your arms to my bed
2.
pack your suitcase lets go to new england and die a lonesome death but we'll go to coney island and we'll go swimming in the ocean before walking to our graves
3.
if i were you id change my name live in a pumpkin field in maine and hang a rotting rollercoaster from a treelimb near my house and every other early morning id feed apples to the birds thatd visit me from time to time when their beaks wished to speak with mine and maybe if you were me youd come and sleep next to me and we could gargle on the roof while plucking bowties from our hair and if were you i wonder if youd know just how much i loved you when i left your body and returned to mine
4.
ive been written in a blue room sleeping there toward no one and in the years that youve crowded ill be lonesome enough for billy a rose on the doorway and your sister loved a raincloud who sang with a teapot so clarinet slept with her tigers while the fireman got his gun and shot it out a window now new york city snows are GONE
5.
you were in love with: the morning snowfall outer space phonograph flowers baseball diamonds tonight you must bicycle laughing street until it is morning in the city you were in love with: the birds singing lake nicatous clara rockmore luna park but tonight you must bicycle laughing street until it is morning in the city how could you tell i'd been longing for you death? you were in love with: the arctic ocean photograph mountain the lives of pianos sarah on rooftops but tonight you must bicycle laughing street until it is morning in the city how could you tell i've been longing for you death? and in the darkness every night ive known of a spark that swallows shadow ive wished i was with you aboard an ocean liner set sail for europe but i know you could never need someone for travelling so tonight you will bicycle laughing street and only the stars will see you leave
6.
you were younger than your years and i couldnt leave your window ive been so blue you could never sing on the telephone and i missed the cold weather ive been so blue you missed november more than your brother and i never answered with laughter ive been so blue
7.
i waited for this to be over two years now at least for this to be over oh its quiet for now is it cold where you are? it is cold where i am ive tried rationalising your disappearance until it became insignificant but i recognise that language having spoken it with your brothers for many years now and i recognise that image of you having dreamt of it in my bedroom for many years long gone oh its quiet for now is it cold where you? IT IS COLD WHERE I AM BUT I CAN HEAR THE TRAINS ALMOST EVERY HALF AN HOUR
8.
what next what now little ghost how'd you find your way from black into my eyes? fold your jacket over a chair might we babble our longings together shrug the cold from our shoulders a quiet photograph just black and white of you and i sharing an umbrella in the rain
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10.
now its one foot then the other until several years later you set foot in my town how dare you stroll? now two bicycles are rusting in the rain take beautiful for example you sucked the milk from her body and then fed her bones to the ground i know there is blood dried to those fingers you push inside of me now its one foot then the other until several years later you set foot in my town
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oh moon 07:19
13.
there will be no songs sung by the chimneys or the trees tonight while we're sleeping beside our windows and come morning clouds descend into city streets avenues disappear forever you felt a little bit alone when you were in my arms but in your eyes silhouettes of flowers fall, flowers fall but ill be there in my astronomers jacket at your snare drums birthday party conducting the musicians who will play pump organ and violin arrangements ive written for the occasion and you felt a little bit alone when you were in new york but in your eyes silhouettes of flowers, flowers fall so snowflakes will find us laughing at our helmets in october upon sleepy islands
14.
black clouds 04:07
we wont breathe until the black clouds pass by i went walking in the darkness without a jacket or umbrella there was laughter in the cold for days eyed the white silhouettes we wont breathe until the black clouds pass by cry stream tears sorry dreamer soon youll thank the candle and remember when you were wandering an abandoned airfield in the falling snow we wont breathe until the black clouds pass by carousel stars are coming out now over the ocean where the otters swim

about

Songs written by Nesey Gallons from August 2002 to January 2003

Recorded in Athens, Georgia by Julian Koster and Nesey Gallons, Autumn 2002 (Sunset Shed) and Summer 2005 (731 Pulaski). Additional overdubs and mixing in Deathville, New York in Winter 2005

Thank you to the Gerbils for lending us their tascam 388. Hannah Jones and Bo Tompkins for letting us borrow some drums. Derek Almstead for the use of a Stella parlor guitar. Brent Jones for a cymbal. Will Westbrook for coming by the house and taking a nap during a recording session. Sunny Taylor for tolerating all the racket going on in the other room, and letting us use her studio and piano while she was away. Matthew Johnson and Patrick Byrne for the Sunset Shed session. The influence of The Clouds/Natural Bridges and my time with the Joseph Boys is tangible. Patrick again for passing through precisely when I was re-recording some of these songs. Jill Carnes for being the best drummer in town. Spaceship will always equal friendship. Will Cottrell for the traintrack clatters and roasted pecans. Sarah Moran for July 44th and the green Schwinn. Jeff Mangum for an evenings electricity, during which I wrote "oh moon" in his bedroom and ate a can of baked beans. And a sympathetic bear hug. Stephen James for letting me borrow his sisters guitar. Marcus Estes for coming to the rescue when I was homeless. Giving me a typewriter, a pair of shoes, and a place to sleep in that enormous house on Dubose. Heather for letting me stay in her basement apartment until I found somewhere else to live. Tim Schreiber for a friendly ear and a couple beers on his front porch on the night I learned my friend was moving away to NYC. Carla Williams for being impossibly kind. Everyone at the five points jittery joes who let me have free coffee and all the muffins and bagels that didn't sell. Who else? Probably everyone. And that tree limb on Hill Street that almost killed me.

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released February 14, 2006

played by:

nesey gallons: vocals, guitars, ukulele, pump organ, piano, bass guitar, noise, banjo, turntable

julian koster: drums, bass guitar, vocals (singing saw on bonus track)

jill carnes: drums, vocals

patrick byrne: banjo, percussion, flute

matthew johnson: drums, ukulele, vocals

sarah moran: said not to go to the ocean without her, made the album cover, and played accordion.

will cottrell: clattering

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