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Hot Moon (Jun 2024)

by Mint Biscuit

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1.
Laces Of Your Shoe 04:14
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Laces Of Your Shoe You know you're fooling with me baby You know you never will I know you'll stay true to me baby You'd never wish me ill I know that life is short baby You're gonna spend it with me Make sure your apples baby Don't fall too far from the tree Take care of me honey Keep me under your arm That way, my little bunny I can't come to no harm And I'll be true to you I'll take care of you too And tie the laces of your shoe You know that this is our home And this is where we stay I know you'll always return to me baby When you've been away When you go out at night Drinking with the girls You take my loving arms with you You are the joy of my world And I'll be true to you I'll take care of you too And tie the laces of your shoe No need to argue No fuss nor fight I know when it comes to you baby You're always right No need to worry baby We can't be wrong I know that here with you Is where I belong You make me twist and shout baby You make me scratch that itch You make me grateful to be Rach and Rich You are my loving spoonful You are my queen of hearts You were the one for me, babe Right from the start Oh yeah And I'll be true to you I'll take care of you too And tie the laces of your shoe Oh yeah We ain't going anywhere You and me, babe I know that life is short baby You're gonna spend it with me Make sure your apples baby Don't fall too far from the tree Take care of me honey Keep me under your arm That way, my little bunny I can't come to no harm And I'll be true to you I'll take care of you too And tie the laces of your shoe Of your shoe Of your shoe Your shoe
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The Gardener 04:22
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The Gardener The gardener goes to work He does it every day The gardener mixes compost And the farmer makes the hay The gardener gets his fork His spade and trowel and hoe There's never any love lost Between the gardener and the mole The gardener cuts the grass And pulls up all the weeds He has to bend his back right down To sprinkle all the seeds Go gardener Tend your plot Go gardener The gardener feeds the birds With peanuts and sunflowers He checks the sky above him For signs of April showers The gardener gets the hose And aims right for the stem Tries not to catch his shirt The thorns will tear the hem Go gardener Tend your plot Go gardener The weather's getting hot The gardener goes to work He does it every day The gardener mixes compost And the farmer makes the hay He makes the hay He makes the hay The farmer makes the hay The farmer makes the hay Makes the hay
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Nine Twenty-Four 03:58
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Nine Twenty-Four So you wanna know What lies in store So you wanna go Where you've not been before Just ask the crow Yeah they know the score Yeah see you at nine twenty-four So you wanna take What's not yours to steal And you want to make A mountain into a meal Just ask the crow They've seen it all before Yeah see you at nine twenty-four See you at nine twenty-four See you at nine twenty-four And if I was a bird I would fly from this town And if I was a mole I'd live under the ground And if I was a mouse I'd slide inside my home Alone So you wanna know What lies in store So you wanna go Where you've not been before Just ask the crow Yeah, they know the score Yeah see you at nine twenty-four See you at nine twenty-four And if I was a snake I'd have a lot to say About the price of gold And the fair world today And if I was a pike I'd swim around your toe And that's all you'd need to know And if I was a bird I would fly from this town And if I was a mole I'd live under the ground And if I was a mouse I'd slide inside my home Alone
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Hot Moon 05:23
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Hot Moon Hot Moon goes a-sailin' by Right across the midnight sky You swoon, and I wonder why See you soon, Hot Moon Hot Moon and the shiny stars Far away, Venus and Mars It's way too far to drive in our cars See you soon, Hot Moon Hot Moon into outer space Which of them will win the race? What do you see when you turn your face? See you soon, Hot Moon See you soon, Hot Moon See you soon, Hot Moon I'll sing you a tune, Hot Moon And did you ever think Of flying on high Way across the stars Way across the sky And did you ever think Of writing me a verse That could conquer The whole Universe, oh? Hot Moon goes a-sailin' by Right across the midnight sky Too soon to wonder why See you soon, Hot Moon See you soon, Hot Moon See you soon, Hot Moon And did you ever think Of flying on high Way across the stars Way across the sky And did you ever think Of writing me a verse That could conquer The whole Universe, oh? Hot Moon and the shiny stars Far away, Venus and Mars It's way too far to drive in our cars See you soon, Hot Moon Hot Moon Hot Moon Hot Moon And did you ever think Of flying on high Way across the stars Way across the sky And did you ever think Of writing me a verse That could conquer The whole Universe, oh? Hot Moon goes a-sailin' by Right across the midnight sky You swoon, and I wonder why See you soon, Hot Moon
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Grassland Blues 04:42
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Grassland Blues Take me down To the grassland fields Lay me down Show me how it feels Teach me now Tell me what is real Keep me proud My faith they cannot steal It's very beautiful You're very beautiful I'm very beautiful too The grass is wonderful The mountain thunderful The sea is bountiful too Take me down Where fortune follows funtimes Lay me down Talk gently to me sometimes Teach me now Don't torture me with lectures Keep me wondering Of all your new conjectures It's very beautiful You're very beautiful I'm very beautiful too The grass is wonderful The mountain thunderful The sea is bountiful too Now look at all the little creatures That come to gather round They've heard the best teachers Can amaze and astound Your distinguished features And your voice a golden sound You're a peace preacher They're gonna come from miles around It's very beautiful You're very beautiful I'm very beautiful They're very beautiful The grass is wonderful The mountain thunderful The sea is bountiful too The grassland wonderful Yeah, the mountain thunderful The sea is bountiful too Ay ay ay ay Ay ay ay ay Ay ay ay yeah Ay ay ay ay Ay ay ay ay Ay ay ay yeah
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Can't Remember Why 04:38
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Can’t Remember Why I looked up towards the parapet so high I reached out my hand to catch the falling sky The falling sky Oh but I, I can’t remember why I can't remember why I can't remember why I climbed up the tree that stood upon the hill I raised up my heart to wish nobody ill Oh but I, I can’t remember still No, I can't remember still I can't remember still I swam up the stream that trickled down the glen I made lasting peace with all my fellow men My fellow men But I can’t remember when I can't remember when I can't remember when
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Had A Gutful 04:09
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Had A Gutful I've had a gutful of you And all the things you try and make me do I can hear you mutter and moan Right through the walls of my home I've had enough of your woe and spite Something about you yeah it doesn't ring right You're always trying to pick a fight Why don't you leave me alone? This is what your intolerance betrays A little man who's seen better days There's no encouragement, there'll be no praise I've had a gutful of you You can take a long walk off a very short pier Cause your kind is not wanted here Oh so you think I am insincere? Well I've had a gutful of you And now you try to be holier than thou Jesus forgave, you just pick the scabs You're gonna end up under the slabs I've had a gutful of you I've had a gutful of you And all the things you try and make me do I can hear you mutter and moan Right through the walls of my home I've had enough of your woe and spite Something about you yeah it doesn't ring right You're always trying to pick a fight Why don't you leave me alone? Now you start another slanging session A lack of intelligence, latent aggression Insecurity, born of derision Well I've had a gutful of you And now you try to be holier than thou Jesus forgave, you just pick the scabs You're gonna end up right under the slabs I've had a gutful of you I've had a gutful of you (I've had a gutful of you) And all the things you try and make me do (I've had a gutful of you) I can hear you mutter and moan (I've had a gutful of you) Right through the walls of my home (I said I've had a gutful of you!) Yeah! Gutful! I've had enough of your woe and spite Something about you yeah it doesn't ring right You're always trying to pick a fight Why don't you leave me alone? (Why don't you leave me alone?) Why don't you leave me alone? (Why don't you leave me alone?) Aahh... Gutful
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Mealworms 03:51
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Mealworms My mealworms bring all the birds to the yard And their life is better than yours Their life is better than yours I could teach you, but I'd have to charge There's a blackbird and there's a crow Picking the peanuts from down below There's a robin and there's a finch They're stabbing the seed with their little beaks There's a sparrow and there's a wren Fluttering in and then out again There's a pigeon and starling too They're taking the feed from me and you Watch out, here comes a cat He looks pretty lean, he's not so fat He's so slinky, he's long and black What you gonna do about that Mr Robin? My mealworms bring all the birds to the yard And their life is better than yours Their life is better than yours I could teach you, but I'd have to charge It brings me joy in a funny kind of way To feed the birdies every day To see their coloured feather display Yeah, it keeps me from sobbin' But watch out, here comes a cat He looks pretty lean, he's not so fat He's so slinky, he's long and black What you gonna do about that Mr Robin? It brings me joy in a funny kind of way To feed the birdies every day To see their coloured feather display Yeah, it keeps me from sobbin' Life's just a bag of mealworms If you can see past the problems Yeah, just a bag of mealworms Can you see it on my terms?
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Half-Baked 03:58
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Half-Baked I know you've been counting down the days To your special day I know I've been thinking of the ways To please you honey babe I bought all the ingredients I found my old nan's recipe I had a surefire plan To win your love for me And despite my efforts to carefully make Without too much mess and without too much mistake A moist, warm and scrumptious tasty birthday cake Well it's turned out half-baked again I remembered to sprinkle flour I remembered to butter the pan I stocked up on cream and jam I know you hate marzipan But what I couldn't resist my love Was the sight of the raising dough I opened the oven too soon babe The mix it did wallow So despite my efforts to carefully make Without too much mess and without too much mistake A warm and scrumptious tasty birthday cake It's turned out half-baked again
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You Just Want To Give Me Your Germs 04:00
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You Just Want To Give Me Your Germs You just want to give me your germs You wanna see me eaten by worms Buried six feet in the garden Yeah you just want to give me your germs You just want to give me your germs Your little nose is full of snot You're beginning to get a nasty cough Your skin is peeling and falling off Yeah you just want to knock me off! You just want to give me your germs You wanna see me eaten by worms Buried six feet in the garden Yeah you just want to give me your germs You blew your nose in a snot rag Didn't even hide it in your handbag You sneezed into your bowl of spag I've told you once now I'm going to nag Your eyes are red, your teeth are yellow The doctor seems such a pleasant fellow You're living off ice cream and jello There's nothing else that you can swallow You just want to give me your germs You wanna see me eaten by worms Buried six feet in the garden Yeah you just want to give me your germs No I won't share your bed In the morning we'll both be dead Put a cold compress on your head Find the hospital in the A to Z You just want to give me your germs You wanna see me eaten by worms Buried six feet in the garden Yeah you just want to give me your germs Yeah you just want to give me your germs Yeah you just want to give me your germs Yeah you just want to give me your germs!
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Stompington Meadows 02:58
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Stompington Meadows Yeah, let's head on down to Cambridgeshire! Gonna visit my nephew and niece Down in the English South East Where Pink Floyd wrote about Time and Pigs Way down south past Nottingham Where the students toil and slave Wittgenstein went to his grave We can take a punt if we are brave Right down the River Cam Come with me for a Stompington Rock Yeah let's go for a Stompington Stomp We can take part in a Stompington Romp Right over the meadow man Come with me for a Stompington time Yeah we can write a Stompington rhyme We can take part in a Stompington line Right over the meadow man Right over the meadow man Right over the meadow man Gonna visit my nephew and niece Down in the English South East Where Pink Floyd wrote about Time and Pigs Way down south past Nottingham Gonna visit my nephew and niece Down in the English South East Pink Floyd wrote about Time and Pigs Way down south past Nottingham Way down south past Nottingham Come with me for a Stompington Rock Let's go for a Stompington Stomp We can take part in a Stompington Romp Right over the meadow man Come with me for a Stompington time Yeah we can write a Stompington rhyme We can take part in a Stompington line Right over the meadow man Yeah, right over the meadow man Right over the meadow man
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Summer Song 04:13
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Summer Song In a momentary lapse of reason You changed the weather, changed the season You sang out clear, it won’t be long Until we hear our summer song Past winter’s ruin we sailed our boats on Until we reached tall reeds on the seashore We knew our fear here did not belong We sang out clear our summer song And now we swim soft shades of shadow The victim’s quote we shall not remember The ships we sail will carry us on We sing out clear our summer song We sing out clear our summer song We sing out clear our summer song
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Spanish Brown Cow Blues 02:23
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Spanish Brown Cow Blues You know you said you'd had enough for today Trying to keep the dismal voices at bay Then deep within yourself, yeah, you find another way To make it right for the record You know you thought that inspiration was dry You'd had enough, yeah, and you didn't know why You picked up your pen and the words began to fly To make it right for the record The Spanish brown cow has no place in this song Its singing is flat and its rhyming is wrong But you couldn't bear not to invite him along You know when you were about to give in And collapse in a flood of tears again You remembered just how it feels to win And make it right for the record And make it right for the record The Spanish Brown Cow flicks at a fly In the pasture on the valley side it does lie The bell round its neck echoes a low chime It feels alright, for the record
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Toadstool Blues 04:24
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Toadstool Blues Find the time To trace the outline of a memory It's time to make amends From the wreckage of your mind Find the time To indulge the extra sensory You've been burning at both ends For such a long long time Find the time To get lost in search of wisdom You may not leave your kingdom But the battles are behind Now what do you perceive? Is it time to stick around Or is it time to up and leave? Find the time To get lost in search of wisdom You may not leave your kingdom But the battles are behind Find the time To sit upon a toadstool If you eat them you'll go blind Now what do you perceive? Is it time to stick around Is it time to up and leave? You'll float upon the breeze And lie down upon the ground Like an over-ripened leaf Now what do you perceive? Is it time to stick around Or is it time to up and leave? You'll float upon the breeze And lie down upon the ground Like an over-ripened leaf Find the time To trace the outline of a memory It's time to make amends From the wreckage of your mind To indulge the extra sensory You've been burning at both ends For such a long long time
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Wavy Evening 04:19
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Wavy Evening Sail away on the tide To pleasant side Takes you far away from the town On your raft you will ride A wondrous life And now you're floating up and down Where fish and whales abide You know they'll try To drag you deeper down Your mum will tan your hide When you're espied And the lifeboat brings you home Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Where fish and whales abide You know they'll try To drag you deeper down Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Sail away on the tide To pleasant side Takes you far away from the town Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round Yeah, salt stings your eyes And ripples spin you round
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Blue Light Smiles 05:08
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Blue Light Smiles I can see the blue light burning Brightly through the sky I can see my parents holding Tight for you and I I can see the misty morning All the ducks in line I can see the flowers glowing Their little faces shine I can smell the petrol engines Ticking through the town Some of us are growing up And others growing down I can see the blue light and it Makes me want to smile Puts an end to darkest night And beckons life in style I can hear the population Waking from their sleep I can hear the cattle lowing And the bleating of the sheep I can see the blue light burning Brightly through the sky I can see my parents holding Tight for you and I I can see the blue light and it Makes me want to smile Puts an end to darkest night And beckons life in style I can see the blue light burning Brightly through the sky I can see my parents holding Tight for you and I I can see the blue light and it Makes me want to smile Puts an end to darkest night And beckons life in style Puts an end to darkest night And beckons life in style
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Somebody Lyrics Confusion 05:04
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Somebody Lyrics Confusion You chuck another log Onto the old wood fire You sprinkle on the fuel And light my desire And when it goes boom The flames couldn't get any higher Don't you know that your wood pile Has become a funeral pyre? Somebody lyrics confusion As the smoke stings and enters our eyes Somebody lyrics confusion As the firestarter lies The sparks return to the earth And the embers glow soft and warm The charred sticks, like burning spears That you might hold in a war Somebody lyrics confusion As the smoke stings and enters our eyes Somebody lyrics confusion As the firestarter sighs As the firestarter sighs And now, tingling and thrilled We return to the farm Our clothes, they are pungent and holed There's a scorch mark on my arm Somebody lyrics confusion As the smoke stings and enters our eyes Somebody lyrics confusion As the firewidow cries Somebody lyrics confusion As the smoke stings and enters our eyes Somebody lyrics confusion As the firestarter dies As the firestarter dies And soon there will be nothing left But a pile of ash and a smell Well I sure hope that you made it to Heaven God knows you've been through more than enough Hell Somebody lyrics confusion As the smoke stings and enters our eyes Somebody lyrics confusion As the firestarter dies As the firestarter dies As the firestarter dies

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Fourth album proper from Mint Biscuit.

This album was born of a period of grieving. Several tracks reference Mint Biscuit's late father Neil Thomas, if obliquely. But Mint Biscuit does not want to dwell on the past. Instead he returns to his familiar themes of nature, family, celebration and life in a small town. Flowers, grasses, reeds, trees, toadstools, birds, fish, whales, cats, rabbits, moles, mice, snakes, worms, cows, pigs and sheep - all get a mention in this thoroughly pastoral offering. A strong psychedelic vibe is present throughout this album - Mint Biscuit would like to stress that this is down to a hermitic, clean living lifestyle - coffee, kombucha and curry are his drugs of choice!

The beautiful artwork is by Shropshire artist Thomas Barker, "Hot Moon Over Clee Hill". Mint Biscuit has family links to the county, his grandparents used to live there. This print is on the way to the Mint Biscuit household as I type, a similar landscape by a different artist hangs in his Mum's kitchen!

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releases June 15, 2024

The release date of this album will roughly coincide with the full moon of June 2024 "Strawberry Moon" on June 22nd.

All music copyright © Richard Thomas, 2024.
All words copyright © Richard Thomas, 2024 with exceptions noted in the track metadata.

Published by Mint Biscuit Sounds.

Artwork, "Hot Moon Over Clee Hill", copyright © Thomas Barker, 2023.

Total running time: 71:51

All tracks converted to 48000Hz, 24bit and normalised at -2.0 dBFS peak, by MediaHuman Audio Converter.

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