Come Worry with Us! Page #3

Half the band just stays in bed,

which I totally understand.

(EZRA CRYING)

(INAUDIBLE)

MENUCK:
The hours you keep

when you're on the road

are exactly the worst

hours to raise a kid.

When we have to drive is the time when

he should not be cooped up in a van.

When we have

to go to work

is when we

should be with him

getting him ready

to go to bed.

I mean, it's all

topsy-turvy.

(EZRA SPEAKING)

So many buses,

so many buses.

So many buses,

so many buses.

AMBER:
You wanna ride

for a bit, sweetheart?

You getting tired?

Okay, baby.

Everyone's okay?

They're treating you well here?

They're treating you okay?

They're not ripping you off

on drinks or I don't know,

searching you unnecessarily

or anything?

Does anyone else

have a question?

MAN:
Play music!

-You f***in' play music.

What the f***?

(CROWD LAUGHS)

Anyone else have

a question?

TRUDEAU:
Last year

I was gone nine months, you know?

Like just so much.

Having Tim on

the road makes it...

It's like,

"Oh, let's go on tour."

One, two.

Hey, one, two.

TRUDEAU:
And who knows,

maybe I'll want to have kids someday.

But Tim is not so excited

about touring with kids.

So we'd have

to figure it out.

MAN:
Ezra!

MOSS:
If you want to run, sweetie,

you can run to me, okay? Run!

Oh!

Ha!

(EZRA SPEAKING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

MENUCK:
No toys

for Christmas this year.

MOSS:
Some beautiful art.

MENUCK:
What shampoo

do I use?

I use your mother's shampoo.

She gave it to me personally.

If you come closer

I smell like your mother.

Anyone else have

a question?

MENUCK:
When

you earn most of your living

playing music for drunk people,

where the bar's in the room, it's not

really about you on any given night,

it's about a whole lot of

other things in the room, you know?

As opposed to in a theater

where everyone's seated

and it's very hushed

and very quiet.

MENUCK:
We're all stuck

with each other.

We all of us stink.

We all of us smell bad.

We all of us

make bad smells.

We all of us make

bad decisions.

We all of us say shitty things to people

we love just because we feel hurt.

But we're stuck

with each other, yes?

MENUCK:
There's nights where we just

lose them within five minutes, you know?

An audience that totally came there

to be, you know,

to watch the show

and be quiet

and some nights

we just lose them like that

and they just start

talking amongst themselves.

I think it's the healthiest

way for music to be presented.

It's good to feel some

sort of resistance

when you're putting things

into this world, you know?

If there's no resistance

then it's a little too easy.

(SINGING)

MENUCK:
Stop! Stop!

Come on back.

Come on back.

Just be gentle with the seats

and the stands, don't break anything.

Everybody's gentle,

everything will be fine.

Can't live on

their remainders

They are burning

half the world

(EZRA CRYING)

There's a hole here.

(CRIES)

-You just got scared?

-Yeah.

So I guess we don't play

right around here, huh?

(CRYING)

I guess we don't play

right around here.

That's okay, we don't have

to play right here.

Fell down right

in there.

What happened?

I fell down

right in there.

You fell down

right in there.

Yeah.

Here, let's move

away from it

so we don't fall down right in there

anymore, okay?

-I wanna go away.

-Come sweetie.

MOSS:
Say it one more time.

EZRA:
Gap is mean.

I don't know

what that means.

MAN:
He's saying the gap.

-Oh, the gap.

You got stuck in the gap.

Yeah, you did.

Oh.

-Oh.

MOSS:
It's easy to

withdraw back into,

"It's never going to work.

It can't work. It can't work."

Can you go

find me a snack?

Can you go with Amber

and find Mommy a snack?

I want a snack too!

You want a snack too?

Okay, here sweetie.

Here's Amber's hand.

She's going to find you

a snack okay?

(EZRA CRYING)

-I want two snacks.

-Yeah. Two snacks.

MOSS:
How can it be possible to be

the kind of parent that I want to be

and to be the kind of person

who can continue to

make some kind of living

doing what I love.

Is it selfish?

Or is it the best thing

you can do for your kid

is showing them

that you're doing what you love.

And the day has come

When we no longer feel

How's fatherhood?

It's difficult, but it's great.

Thank you

for asking.

He's on tour with us.

He plays spittle mouth,

gurgle face.

He's pretty good

at all those things.

MOSS:
So far, it's worth it.

As long as it's okay

with Ezra.

If it starts seeming not okay with Ezra

then I'll have to rethink it.

MENUCK:
I guess having a child is

the first thing in my life that...

Other than having

a checking account,

that's easily relatable

to most people in the world.

I had a weird upbringing.

Strange childhood,

strange adolescence,

difficult young adult,

you know,

incredibly poor

for a few years.

Being unemployed

and being homeless

and stealing food

to eat, you know?

Begging for change

on the street.

Like all that stuff,

you know?

So having a kid

makes it feel less like a weirdo.

(PLAYING HARMONICA)

MENUCK:
This song is

about throwing bricks through windows.

And love.

Simultaneously.

It's called

Microphones in the Trees.

(CROWD CHEERS)

You ready for snack time?

I got us some strawberries.

Strawberries.

Strawberries.

(MENUCK SINGING)

(SINGING)

AMAR:
It's

easy sometimes

to lose perspective when you're

on tour, you know?

Just doesn't really feel like real life

after a few weeks.

Ezra feels like real life.

He's super happy to be awake

at five in the morning

talking to me and I was like,

"Do you want to talk

to your parents?

"Are you worried?

Are you..."

He was totally less worried than me

about anything, you know?

He was so...

"I in my bunk! Is bumpy!"

You know it's just like,

f*** this is great!

I can't believe

we're on the road

with this little

jiggly guy, you know?

What is that?

Like bench press? Okay let's finish.

What do you think?

MOSS:
Okay, I'm gonna go,

sweet pea.

I'm just going to go

do the loading out

and then I can

see you right after.

Okay?

Wanna go outside too.

You wanna go

outside too?

Sweetie, I know.

It's gonna be short, I promise.

It won't be hard today.

-Want you.

I know baby.

(MURMURS)

-Portland!

-Sneakers!

MOSS:
If I didn't take

some morning times

then Amber would

never get time off,

like on big driving days.

That job is incredibly hard

because you are working all the time.

There are no days off.

There's your pinecone.

It's another gloomy

post-rock number.

MAN:
Whoo! We like that.

MOSS:
The roles that we play

in the band, they're very different.

MENUCK:
It's still totally

unequal on the road

and I think

it always will be.

MOSS:
Like even... Not even just

morning times, but just in general,

being on tour, like the bulk

of the parenting role will fall on me.

...no secular rock.

(CROWD LAUGHS)

MOSS:
Efrim has, you know,

a huge amount of mental strain

to make the thing happen,

to make the show happen.

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