A Bee In Her Mouth
by Steve Gates
-
Digital Album
Immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Buy Now $8 CAD or more
-
Physical Cd
Comes in a high quality Digi-pack from Precision Disk with original artwork by Seth Smith of YoRodeo. Graphic Design by Mat Dunlap. Lyric book included.
Includes immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
1. |
Proud Convey It
02:25
|
|||
|
| ||||
2. |
Godforsaken
03:57
|
|||
|
| ||||
3. |
Bright Blue Candy Suns
03:09
|
|||
|
| ||||
4. |
Lost Balloons
04:05
|
|||
|
| ||||
5. |
Five White Tigers
03:25
|
|||
|
| ||||
6. |
Keepin People Out
02:33
|
|||
|
| ||||
7. |
Hello Jesus
02:26
|
|||
|
| ||||
8. |
A Bee In Her Mouth
03:54
|
|||
|
| ||||
9. |
Something New
02:55
|
|||
|
| ||||
10. |
Darlin
02:50
|
|||
|
| ||||
11. |
Tonight
03:16
|
|||
|
| ||||
12. |
Down to the River
02:26
|
|||
|
| ||||
credits
released 28 February 2012
tags
license
all rights reserved
feeds
feeds for about
Recorded in a makeshift studio in a Halifax apartment and produced by John Critchley (Dan Mangan, Elliott Brood), “A Bee In Her Mouth” is Steve Gates’ debut full-length record. Recording started the day after a public talk given by Daniel Lanois during which he inspired his listeners to be reckless and trust themselves in the studio. The result is a record that is ragged and beautiful. ... more
shows
-
Aug 09Liverpool, NS
contact / help
For help with downloads, click here.
For all other inquiries, including help with merch, click here.
Redeem download codes here.
- Track Name: Proud Convey It
-
Proud Convey It
I’ve got a story and I’m proud to tell you it
I’ve got a bong and I proud display it
I’ve got a pride and I proud convey it
I’ve got a knife in a pocket and I’m gonna take it out
Cause you put me in the corner with the magazines
Put me in the corner like a bag of beans
Put me in the corner and I know what it means
You put me in the corner with a hat
An’ I’m gonna take it off; I’m gonna take it off
But the truth is you’re a tourist and you’ll never know
Collect things on your visit to tell your friends about
An’ you shiver while you live here but you’ll never really know
The feeling of having healing in your hands and then it lets you go… - Track Name: Godforsaken
-
Godforsaken
Whiskey runs around this town
Like a fire burning underground
But there is no amount of water
An’ there is no amount from man
Godforsake the man
Godforsake the man
Pine trees twisted but proud
Parting for the highway and the summer crowds
But there is no amount of money
And there is no amount of land
Godforsake the man
Godforsake the man
Who built these bridges here
Oh godforsake the man
Godforsake the man
Godforsake the man
Who built these bridges an’ tears them down
Who gives them money and tears them down
A museum of wilderness confines
Memories trapped in smaller tongues to resign
But there is no amount of money
And there is no amount from man - Track Name: Bright Blue Candy Suns
-
Bright Blue Candy Suns
It’s a long
Long walk you say
To the store today
Coffee and newspapers
So far away
It makes me run
Run off at the mouth
You’ve got me singing you south
I’ve given up
My excuses runnin’ out
With your
Bright blue candy suns
Got my heart on the run
And I’m feelin’ like I’m under
Your bright blue candy stars
Got me drivin’ so far
And I’m wearin’
My heart and my feelings
Like a mirror on the ceiling
You reflect all my feelings
With your
Bright blue candy suns - Track Name: Lost Balloons
-
Lost Balloons
I found her note of interest
Underneath this old balloon
Lost here in a hurricane
On this island here marooned
Note said I’m the one you’re searching for
I am the diamond for which men die
I’m the queen of Quinpool Rd.
Where the ocean meets the sky
So I rowed all evening
Rowed on into the night
I held the balloon close
As the land crept out of sight
I found her home by starlight
A tiny dory lost at sea
She was lying on her back
An’ she smiled up at me
Well I found a home beside her
There in the comforts of her eyes
Now I feel like drinking less and I feel like dancing more
An’ I feel like drinking less and dancing more
I was like a sleeping nation
Peaceful with not a watchful eye
She took out her swinging sabers
An’ covered me in powder rings
So I went back to the island
An’ destroyed all the lost balloons
But I cannot keep them off
An’ they’ll be here again soon
So one day she came to see me
Said she was in need of something new
Said kiss me and I’ll go
I said maybe you don’t have to go
I found an inch of truth
Running loose in our old room
But there was always mile of mystery in the halls
Miles of mystery in the halls
Well I found a home beside her
There in the comforts of her eyes
Now I feel like drinking less and I feel like dancing more - Track Name: Five White Tigers
-
Five White Tigers
She was 8 years old
But her eyes were so much older
Her unwashed face
Red hair down to her shoulders
She never held her tongue in public places
She had no need to hide her thoughts
At Christmas all that she wanted was
Five white tigers
The year she fell ill
They put her in a room with one tv
With lots of cards
With lots of flowers and lots of cards
An’ when I found out
I was in a working camp
Up in northern ontario
An’ as the flies bit in
I dreamt of five white tigers
She was 8 years old
But her eyes were so much older
Her unwashed face
Red hair down to her shoulders
As years went by
There were parts of her that never recovered
But at Christmas all that she asked for was
Five white tigers - Track Name: Keepin People Out
-
Keepin’ People Out
When I was young I hated the union
(Keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
See ‘em on the street say what are you doin’?
(Keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
The NDP says they got my back but they all live in the city and drive a Cadillac
Now I’m old and safe and I’m part of the problem
Keepin’ people out by keeping people in
Now I went down to the united nations
(keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
They was tryin’ to decide what to do with the Hatians
(keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
Drop cherry blossoms from planes in the sky
An’ we’ll starve ‘em all to death with apple pie
Then we’ll privatize the mail, hospital and jail
‘Cause we’re keepin’ people out by keeping people in
Back when I was young on the schoolyard playin’
(Keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
I was in peter’s little gang when a bully came chasin’
(Keepin’ people out by keeping people in)
The bully went down when peter stepped in
He looked me in the eyes and said, “you’re lucky you’re in.”
Not a truer sentence ever been heard by my big ears
Keepin’ people out by keeping people in
When I went to heaven I met saint peter
Said if I had your job you wouldn’t get in neither
I could run this place more better than you
I’d send’em all south in a big canoe
But when I got to heaven they wouldn’t take me neither
‘Cause they was keepin’ people out by keeping people in
When I got to heaven they wouldn’t take me neither
‘Cause I was keepin’ people out by keeping people in - Track Name: Hello Jesus
-
Hello Jesus
Hello jesus what’s the lesson?
I’m in the bathroom
I’m confessin’
To a toilet half my age
Down the drain with all my secrets
Set them free into the ocean
Found by some
Sailboat driving business man
They were shaggin’ in the public gardens
The rented cops were watchin’ tv
They were swimming with ducks and geese
They were naked underneath
They were touchin’ cause they like to
Swimming in the night to
They are friends of mine
Come on in and come on back now
Stories end they seem to go by
Stories end before you know b’y
I am going back again
To the chorus the refrain
To the well loved and the lonely
The pretty and the homely
To the city by the sea - Track Name: A Bee In Her Mouth
-
A Bee in her Mouth
I got a 55 oldsmobile
Jes’ like the song sings
Got a miracle baby on the way
Spent the nights getting colder
Mall parking lot
Twenty weeks away and twenty to go
We’ll smoke it wet
Just one more time
I’ve got her problem and she has mine
With a bee in her mouth and bird in her womb
Know it really changed her
Just growing up this way
Always making shift a manger from cars and clay
Got a miracle baby
Or so this song sings
Jes’ caught a bird in a teapot with golden wings
Can it make you whole?
Can a baby make you whole? - Track Name: Something New
-
Something New
Leave it on your mind
Leave it on the sunshine right behind you and wait for a while
Just leave it for a day
leave it on the sea
Just leave it here with me, the birds take off their gowns and Forget about it
Just stumble here with me
Stumble here with me
Do you feel it something new
Starts to remind you of all the things you used to do
The things you used to do
The things you used to do
I was feeling young
As nervous as a tongue on candied skin on the way to LA
You’d fallen on my lap and everything
You were looking bold
Still on fire but a little older
Than you were when you last looked my way
I’d fallen on your lap and everything - Track Name: Darlin
-
Darlin’
Darlin’, you showed up again
With a tear in your eye and
All those years on your skin
You were always innocent of this but guilty of that
It was all that I could do to help you now
Darlin’ I was at fault
But there are things we done
That mean we can never be friends
We were always innocent of this, but guilty of that - Track Name: Tonight
-
Tonight
Tonight just let it go
Burden in my head
Let me sleep now
Burden in my dream
Let me be
Remember won’t you say what you mean
An’ tonight just let it go
Worry in my help
Scare my company
Worry in my gall
And my seed
Remember won’t you say what you mean
An’ tonight just let it go
We’re growing up too late
We’re growing up
We’re growing up enough
enough
Tonight just let it go - Track Name: Down to the River
-
Down to the River
Down to the river of his arms she went
Carrying the weight away
There’s a feeling in my heart
And it feels nice and cold
Reminds me of a joke
That a little boy has told
And we all know it well
We’ve all been there before
An’ you can bring it to my house
But you can leave it at the door
Down to the river of his arms she went
Carrying the weight away
There’s somethin’ in my heart
And it feels nice and warm
It is heavy like a book, but it reads like a poem
You can sing it like a seed
Sew it in your mind
Plant it in your morning
And grow it in your mind
Down to the river of his arms she went
Carrying the weight away
Carrying the weight away
