Nothing Painted Blue - Another Child Bride

From one of the 1990s most overlooked indie bands, originally released in July 1993 as part of the Simple Machines Working Holiday series, it is also compiled on the band's Emotional Discipline album (1997).

franklin bruno (known for sometimes being a mountain goat and otherwise assisting John Darnielle with small dollops of his transcendence) has written some great lyrics, and here they are for this tune, with a few question marks:

its easy to agree with the man and the mitre (mitre=name for bishop's hat)
when you haven't got a daughter with another one inside her
its easy to insist that the method be Rhythm
when your only son is carrying a metronome within him

he'll do the honorable thing
quivering by your side
and the last thing this family needs
is another child
and another child bride

he shows up at her window
and she shimmies down the ladder
when she get back to her room, she's no wiser
but she's sadder

when saint and the serpent
prepare themselves to grapple
its starts out in a Chevy
and it ends up in a chapel

she'll do the honorable thing
its shivering cold outside
and the last thing this family needs
is another child
and another child bride

hard labor for those in prison
contractions like don't and isn't
just look how the baby glistened
traveling down that slide

on april twenty-second
all her cousins threw a shower
and she opened up appliances
for upwards of an hour

blood test, license, civil ceremony
then they went back to her mother's house
for wine and cannelloni

he'll do the honorable thing
deliver you(?) from your bride
and the last thing this family needs
is another child
and another child bride

(lifted from Madonna's Papa Don't Preach)
i'll keep the baby
i'm keeping the baby

Category:

Music

Tags:

• nothing
• painted
• blue
• franklin
• bruno
• mountain
• goats
• scat
• records
• simple
• machines
• working
• holiday
• John
• Darnielle

[bigman1225]

Can you upload the original "House guest", I can't find it ANYWHERE on the internet.

[milowent]

@bigman1225 sure, i have the CD around here somewhere, gimme a few days!

[FungusMossGnosis]

@bigman1225

The original ''Houseguest'' is up now, thanks to yours truly (but no thanks necessary.)

Hope everything's going groovy with Milo. Believe me - I understand being unexpectedly busy with the endless and quotidian tasks that life plops in front of us from time to time. Or maybe he's just enjoying life. Let us wish for that.

[milowent]

@FungusMossGnosis lol. I believe I emailed an mp3 directly to bigman1225 at the time, but I'm glad someone took the extra incredible effort to plop the mp3 onto a video :-)

[Alexc0999]

Uh, what release is this on? I thought I heard everything by NPB....

[milowent]

@Alexc0999 it shows up on the 1997 compilation "Emotional Discipline".

[TheQuinnNash]

Franklin and NPB produce the greatest sounding music I've heard in my entire life. Without going into details and at the risk of hyperbole, it's all there....the beauty, the memories, the assistance in reclaiming genius status as a 16 year old after a traumatic brain injury. I owe Franklin Bruno so much and thank God I had the foresight to begin listening to NPB back in '95.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@milowent

Ah, the personal touch!

And here I was making presumption about your capabilities or availability! I feel shame to underestimate the estimable Milowent.

[Mythomaniacal]

AMAZING SONG. F. Bruno's ability to combine great melodies with mind-blowingly clever lyrics is unparalleled.

[milowent]

@PakaloloSwami nice, i'll leave that comment here.