HYMNS 101–110 · RISEN DOUGH RECORDS

Six A.M.

1995 · Risen Dough Records · 10 tracks

Debut cassette. Ten songs recorded live to a borrowed 4-track in the empty fellowship hall over two Saturday mornings in March 1995, because Sunday mornings were spoken for. The handclaps on side B are the youth group. Sold from the tailgate of a brown station wagon after church for five dollars. Tracy reset the tape counter before every take and wrote the numbers on the J-card by hand.

1. 01Never After Noon3:13

   Opened every sale-Sunday set from 1995 on. The gang vocals are the youth group.

   Words

   Other bands load in at nine at night
   Smoke in the air and a neon light
   We load in at six with the dew on the van
   Coffee in a jug and a donut in each hand
   
   Don't sleep in, don't be late
   The donuts and the band won't wait
   
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We play when the day is new
   Wes has been up since yesterday
   We're done before the eleven o'clock is through
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   Come on early, come on in
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We'll be home before the others begin
   
   Parking lot, fellowship hall
   Church ladies clapping by the wall
   Kids on the curb with the sugar on their face
   Old men tapping their feet in the very same place
   
   Don't sleep in, don't be late
   The donuts and the band won't wait
   
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We play when the day is new
   Wes has been up since yesterday
   We're done before the eleven o'clock is through
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   Come on early, come on in
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We'll be home before the others begin
   
   What time is it? Six A.M.!
   What time is it? Six A.M.!
   
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We play when the day is new
   Wes has been up since yesterday
   We're done before the eleven o'clock is through
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   Come on early, come on in
   Never after noon (never after noon)
   We'll be home before the others begin

2. 02Five O'Clock Run
3. 03Somebody Saved You One3:23

   Recorded in the fellowship hall. Tracy really did write names on the box lids.

   Words

   Somebody saved you one
   
   You came in late on a Sunday with your hood up and your head down
   They were folding up the tables and the coffee had gone cold
   You figured you had missed it, you were used to that by then
   You were halfway to the door when somebody said hold on
   
   Somebody saved you one
   Wrote your name on the lid
   Somebody looked around this room
   And saw the kid nobody else did
   Somebody saved you one
   It's not much, I know
   But somebody counted on you
   Long before you ever showed
   
   It wasn't any sermon, it wasn't any song
   It was Tracy with a marker and a box she wouldn't let us close
   You stood there for a minute like you didn't know the rules
   Then you sat down by the drummer and you stayed until noon
   
   Somebody saved you one
   Wrote your name on the lid
   Somebody looked around this room
   And saw the kid nobody else did
   Somebody saved you one
   It's not much, I know
   But somebody counted on you
   Long before you ever showed
   
   By the summer you came early
   By the fall you held the door
   Now you're counting hoods up in the back
   And saving one more
   
   Somebody saved you one
   Wrote your name on the lid
   Somebody looked around this room
   And saw the kid nobody else did
   Somebody saved you one
   It's not much, I know
   But somebody counted on you
   Long before you ever showed

4. 04Fellowship Hall
5. 05Don't Open the Box
6. 06Glazed and Forgiven
7. 07Second Service
8. 08Sign the Sheet
9. 09The Hole in the Middle
10. 10Six A.M.