JG Thirlwell + Ensemble - Mortgage

Recorded live at Roulette NYC 12.07.21
JG Thirlwell + Ensemble perform the Foetus classic.
Original version is on the Foetus album GASH
Originally presented and live streamed by Roulette Intermedium on December 7th 2021
Additional footage shot by Gabe Garcia
JG Thirlwell -vocals
Simon Hanes - bass
Evan Allen - piano
Leah Asher - violin
Rebecca El Saleh - Harp
Pete Moffett - drums
Mortgage
It's so easy to topple from this life on a thread
And you say why bother
When it goes either way, the hair trigger is set
But it needs an extension…or a transplant
Why do I bother
To trouble myself?
My dreams overflow
With heights and malt liquor
Elastic forms of escape
From twenty-year-old threads
And parasitic dread
Why do I bother?
Why do I bother?
Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier
I've been payin' rent too long
And the mortgage is gone
Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier
I've been payin' rent too long
And the mortgage is gone
It's so easy to topple from this life on a thread
And you say why bother
When it goes either way, the hair trigger is set
I need an explanation
Or a transplant
Or a transplant
Drive me to the grave of the unknown
I've been payin' rent too long
And the mortgage is gone
Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier
Drive me to the grave of the unknown soldier
The mortgage is gone
The mortgage is gone

[@evarlast]

never… NEVER NEVER would I have guessed… or if someoen suggested it… would I ever have believed that this would have come to exist, when I first heard Gash mid 90s.

[@modifiedcontent]

Clint Ruin's voice is as awesome as ever.

[@ceef8688]

this song rode with me every day in high school. JGT + Ensemble is how these compositions should be heard! Hell yeah! Malt liquor! Male lacquer! Luke van Ichor!

[@colin1127]

Was pretty lucky to see this live. Where’s the studio version of this!?!

[@obelix703]

This song always reminds me of the Ring Cycle (thematically, not musically).

[@silentrob668]

wow thats great !

[@raulpineda1821]

JG is quite incredible in every incarnation. I do hope he isn't done with noise, though.

[@rominapaolamercado]

♪♫♪♫♫♪♫♪♫♪

[@steverose1977]

Nice that JG came in too early on his own song.

[@howtomeetwomen-]

he's been payin' rent too long, that's all.

[@SogoTX]

@@howtomeetwomen- But at least the mortgage is gone... ;)

[@nijittwerdle9166]

He looks like Action Johnny. That must be a coincidence. Seriously, I've seen this before- crazy talented musicians backing up a mediocre composer (Zappa). It's all good.

[@johncarver9997]

Lololololol perish angrily about it