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near mint

by mint mind

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1.
everyone’s doing things in tandem they’re always discussing a certain pattern well i’ve found a way to just add them i’m talking about doing random, random, random always someone saying you can’t have that if everyone did it, there’d be havoc the things I wish to have, I just grab them i’m talking about being random, random, random if you suddenly get the urge for multitasking a smidgeon of your time is all i’m asking if there’s ships left to sail, then we’ll man them the temporary course is set to random, random, random…
2.
we’d like to ride on motorcycles oh yeah we’d like to ride on motorcycles oh yeah but mommy won’t show me the way mommy won’t show me the way we’d like to ride on motorcycles oh yeah we’d like to ride on white ponies oh yeah we’d like to ride on black ponies oh yeah but daddy won’t show me the way daddy won’t show me the way we’d like to ride on white ponies oh yeah we’d like to sit on park benches oh yeah we’d like to sit on park benches oh yeah and mommy likes to do that too daddy likes to do that too and we like to do that too we like to sit on park benches oh yeah
3.
i grew a beard, to protect me from the cold but it made me look too old, it made me look too old i grew my hair, to show that i don’t care but i guess i really care, i guess i really care *you can change your postal zip code you can buy a different car but it’ll never change the person that you are moved to berlin, cause i heard that’s really in but i guess i’m not that in, i guess i’m not that in that motorhead t-shirt, surely looks quite cool but i guess i’m not that cool, i guess i’m not that cool * skinny jeans and loose ones, never looked quite right guess i’ll take the middle road and drive it all damn night don’t know what i’m really striving for sometimes being hip is such a chore i am me, i’ve declared it by decree but who is really me, is it really she? i could be him, but my prospects look quite dim so i could be one of them, him, her, those or them *
4.
those seldom days when i get so bored i just have to get away so i head down to the grocery store and watch the folks in disarray other times when life is a lull i just have to get away on vacation is so stressful some folks just don’t know how to play
5.
they’ve written words about hoping, and of the little man’s plight i’m in the dark and just groping, so just lead me to the... i’m sitting round and just moping, no positive person in sight i’m in the dark so just lead me to, just lead me to the light the light so bright it sets things right, yeah right the light, it shines so feel like a deer when she’s frozen, you’re giving me such a fright feel like i’m naked and hoping, you’ll take me from the... it’s as if we got snowed in, when everything is so white you can’t get me to go in, so take me from the light the light so bright, it sets things right yeah right the light, it shines so bright the light so bright, it sets things right yeah right the light, it shines so la la... the light, it sets things right, it shines so i don’t want gray, i want ochre or maybe orange, but not white so many colors to hope for, so just get me from this light the light so bright, it sets things right yeah right the light, it shines so bright...
6.
if crossing the street is moving atoms then i think i’ll move some atoms just for you if socrates said the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing then i guess i’m pretty wise too to you, wise too, oh you planet earth, betelgeuse, neptune and saturn planet earth, betelgeuse, neptune and saturn break through plato, pluto, plateau in a circular pattern plato, pluto, plateau in a circular pattern that’s new knew you, that’s new, for you honey, you and me, e pluribus unum honey, you and me, e pluribus unum partout cause crossing the street is moving atoms and i guess i’ll move some atoms just for you to you, move too, for you
7.
dirty hands 02:55
every policeman has dirty hands i wonder what they’re doing now are they standing in the kitchen washing pots and pans or taking bribes from corrupt ceo’s every politician has dirty hands i wonder what they’re doing now are they holding the wheel of a mini van or writing laws that will kill us somehow *nanana so dirty everybody’s mother has dirty hands i wonder what they’ve done today have they been on the wheel of a mini van or touched themselves in an intimate way everybody’s father has dirty hands i wonder where they’ve been today have they been in the kitchen washing pots and pans or punched the boss on hawaiian shirt day * everybody’s doctor has dirty hands i wonder what they’ve done at all have they saved the very life of a dying man or done coke in a bathroom stall everybody’s daughter has dirty hands i wonder what they’ve done at all have they filled in all the answers on a tough exam or written fuck you on the bathroom wall *
8.
i was a marxist, i was a buddhist i studied hindu with some important guru as existential as a pencil philosophical rants and some bellbottom pants now penny loafers and an oxford i studied politic at dartmouth and harvard under my oxford, a punk t-shirt to cover up the scars from my rowing accident *ask not what your country will do for you or they’ll do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya i led the dea, i led the nsa i was the manager of c + a and billy ray you say i’ve changed now, what can i say when shit rolls down hills you just have to move away pot smoking days now, mistake of my youth i get my kicks now on tylenol and prostitutes and revolution, that was a dream and a dream’s not a dream if you don’t know what it means * i’m doing 20 years for something toxic they’ll tar and feather you for the smallest bullshit like selling bunk stocks to the aged they just don’t understand what this country’s always meant i’ve been to hollywood, i’ve been to brentwood i’d sell my mother for a pot of gold but i can’t do that, she’s just too old so i’ll sell a bunch of other things that’ve already been sold *
9.
lost and lonely, in exile i’m stranded out here, just for a while and i cry, tears from my eyes and i fade, between love and hate i’ve been away, far too long a million years, since i heard a decent song i’ll go home, at the speed of light and see my world, again by night
10.
she sells sea shells by the shore oh little one, your task is done itsy bitsy tiny spider you’ve won, your net is spun *turn wax to stone go home just ohm alone peter piper picked a pepper and phoned up mexico bright light star lights shine at day it’s known, someone told me so * when infinite numbers are known where food for our thoughts can be grown if anyone and everyone can get stoned we can ohm alone and we ohm...
11.
you can change your position but she’s still gonna go you can tattoo her number but you’re never gonna call you can say that you’re climbing mt. everest but she’ll walk through the valley of death you may think that you’re welcome but you’ll always be a guest *she says this guy, this guy he’s too shy that guy, that guy will soon cry i’ll keep waiting for prime time you can make a suggestion but she’ll only protest you can tell her you love her, she’ll say surely you jest if you tell her you’ll be waiting for her then you know that she’ll probably just stall because there’s too many pictures and not enough walls *
12.
standing on a platform waiting for you since when does 10:30 mean quarter to 2? here on the platform waiting again since when does 8:30 mean 20 past 10? guess i’ll hop on the train and try to make our date it sure isn’t early, but it’s never too late delay in oklahoma, missed connection in des moines 14 hours in pittsburgh at a 5 and dime dime.... time.....

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written, produced, recorded and mixed at the upper room, hamburg germany by richard arthur mcphail
mastered by jörg milling at minyon mastering
vox/guitar/keys - richard arthur mcphail
drums/vox - sven janetzko
guitar/vox - frank stöckling

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released March 16, 2014

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mint mind Hamburg, Germany

mostly fuzzy, sometimes trippy, sometimes synthy.
always with a foot in the annals of indie.

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