Come Worry with Us! Page #2

Everything changed,

you know?

I started playing

when I was five

with the idea that it could be

something serious in my life.

It was forced upon me and now,

of course, I'm so grateful that it was.

(SINGING)

Growing up it feels

like anything is possible.

And the moment that you become

a mother it stops feeling that way.

All of a sudden

we become less

even though in our own tiny

little world we become huge

because we become

somebody's mother.

I want so much to go back to what

I was doing.

MENUCK:
In this one,

she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES)

In this one, he's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

In this one, she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

In this one,

she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

-I wanna do it again.

-All right.

MENUCK:
I would give my right arm to

have like, you know, six months at home.

In this one,

she's going like this...

MENUCK:
The mother's job is

so much harder than the father's job.

And the gender balance

gets totally knocked on its ass.

You think you're doing

a good job with that stuff

and then you have a kid and

all of a sudden you realize

that you're totally lame

with that stuff.

Look at that.

Look at the camera.

MENUCK:
In Ezra's first year,

Godspeed started rehearsing full time,

like a day job,

and it was reaching this point

where I felt like the cliche.

I was coming home from

practices like, you know,

"I need a drink," and like practically

loosening my necktie

and then Jessica had been with Ezra

the whole day and...

(BABY TALK)

We have to figure out something else

other than me being on the road

and you being

at home, right?

I don't want that.

Hearts! Are! True!

Some! Hearts! Are! True!

Some! Hearts!

DAVE PAYANT:
I can think

of a couple of friends of mine,

musicians who in the last

few years have had kids

and they don't do the

music so much anymore.

I think Efrim and Jessica are showing

that it's possible, but I don't know

if their example is enough to inspire

the courage for me to...

I don't know how...

Personally how I would fare

in the same situation.

True!

Some! Hearts! Are! True!

PAYANT:
So as Ezra's godfather,

you are to be his spiritual advisor?

Is that one of the, uh...

-I don't really know.

What's the job description

of a godfather?

(WHISTLING)

THIERRY AMAR:
I see it

as just someone who's a protector

and someone

who's there for him.

And I think we're lucky

to be in a band

where most of us are really close

and we're really good friends.

(SINGING)

MENUCK:
Most bands don't

share anything equally.

You know,

once money comes in,

generally most of the money goes

to one or two people in the band.

And that's a sure-fire way

to earn a living in this business.

You know, if you take

more than your bandmates do

then you'll probably

be okay.

To me that's dishonest.

We're committed to the idea of

wealth redistribution, you know?

The rich shouldn't be so rich

and the poor shouldn't be so poor.

So why would we replicate

any of that class system

in our own band

dynamic, right?

EZRA:
Six! One, two,

three, four, six!

EZRA:
One, two, three,

four, six!

SOPHIE TRUDEAU:
We

have to make a little money

but we live pretty simple lives.

We're not extravagant

and success is being able

to do what you love doing

and not having

to compromise.

That I haven't had a job

for the past ten years

is pretty much

my success.

(BABY TALK)

MENUCK:
The sides of the...

Have to keep the

workflow going.

They're labeled for...

PAYANT:
You guys want to stack

these in order?

MENUCK:
Why not just number

them after they're folded?

AMAR:
We're like a

neighborhood grocery store.

We earn, you know, basically

a lower middle-class living

and I feel content

with that if it could last.

If we don't finish,

worst-case scenario

is we bring the box on the bus

and at some point I'll finish it.

MENUCK:
And this idea

that you could earn a wealthy living

playing music

is a recent innovation.

For centuries, musicians

were the lowest rung of the ladder.

We're like

the degenerates,

the people who like

played for pennies in the town square.

We identify

with that tradition.

Citizens in their homes

Missiles in their holes

Citizens in their homes

They built themselves

a beauty by the ton

MENUCK:
I feel like

before that happened,

when I would look

at Mt. Zion I felt like

Mt. Zion was just

sort of an orphaned band.

We didn't feel much

in common with anything

contemporary,

but at the same time

we weren't playing

old-timey music either.

And playing with Vic sort of opened up

this idea that "F***, no," you know,

like we're working

within a tradition.

MOSS:
We write music that's like

harder than what we can actually play.

We just end up making

these impossible songs

and then we sing them

even though we can't sing very well.

I constantly feel like my position

as a musician in the world is tenuous.

Like I constantly feel like I'm going to

turn the corner and it will be gone.

Why is it that there

are so few women

in their mid-30s

and beyond in bands?

-We're the veterans now.

-I know.

-It's like, who's...

-We made it!

It's the golden years now!

(LAUGHS)

Or did we? I don't know,

you know? It's...

MOSS:
Right now

I'm just thinking,

"Okay, what's going to go

in Ezra's suitcase?

"What's going to keep him occupied

when he's bugging everybody else?"

Just thinking

about him constantly

and his well-being and then how can I

keep him feeling great

so that everyone else

can feel great.

So I don't feel this guilt

and responsibility of...

The fact of him,

you know what I mean?

Fix it, Mommy.

No one would

ever say this to me,

but I do

sometimes question,

like wouldn't it be easier for everybody

if I just quit, you know?

I feel that within me.

I don't feel that from anybody else,

I feel that within me.

You can't even

think about it.

You can't tour

without your child.

And our husbands

would never be thinking

about what to put in the arts

and crafts package for the bus.

And I think that's like

the heart of the matter.

It's like as a mother

you can't escape that.

NATALIA YANCHAK:
Now the band isn't

my first priority, I have this child.

My family is

my first priority.

MOSS:
What if we break him?

I don't think we're

going to break him.

-We might break him.

-We might break him a little bit.

We'll see what happens.

You know?

We'll see how it goes.

I think we both have

the feeling and Efrim

keeps reminding me of this

is that

it would be so much easier

not to do it, and...

But if we don't do

it then, you know...

We have to do it.

Like we just have to do it.

We have to try.

(CROWD CHEERING)

MENUCK:
We are

the Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra

from Montreal, Quebec.

(EZRA SPEAKING)

Yeah, it's morning time.

MOSS:
To get to the most places

in the least amount of time,

we're basically driving

for a week straight.

Not only drive at night

but we drive in the day too.

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