| The Mountain Goats – Baboon Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"The sun came up above the ocean out west" God damn it, John, the sun rises in the east. |
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| The Mountain Goats – You Were Cool Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Nobody could get away with this song except John Darnielle. | |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society – Canonize Philip K. Dick, OK? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Oh shit, wrong song. | |
| The World/Inferno Friendship Society – Canonize Philip K. Dick, OK? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It starts with a teaspoon of trouble, it ends in bliss and penury. There is no pension plan for heroes, so you'll want to get the hell out of my way. Get out of the way. Pack it up, lean times for heroes. Pack it up, call it a day. Our pockets and their jails are empty, call it even, heave away. Just because I had an errant ambition, just because I want a better life, just because I made poetry a mission, you might as well punish a kid for coloring outside the lines. It starts with sleep deprivation, it ends with a double life. Is there a back door in this place? I'll not be going quietly today. No, not today. Pack it up, lean times for heroes. Pack it up, call it a day. Our pockets and the jails are empty. Call it even, heave away. (Pack it up!) Lock it up! (Drink it up!) Fuck it up! (Dance it up!) Keep it up! (Smash it up!) Blow it up! (Turn it up!) Tear it up! (Swing it up!) Serve it up! (Smoke it up!) Burn it up! (Crack it up!) Laugh it up! (Eat it up!) I'll do what? (Twist it up!) Dance it up! (Kiss it up!) Oh, break it up! (Punch it up!) Kick it up! (Shoot it up!) Stir it up! (Fuck it up!) Step right, step right on up, son. Have you an errant ambition? And do you want a better life? Here's a pension plan for heroes: just leave all your valuables outside. Does your life lack a mission? Would you like a free ride? You want to kill your idols? Well, step right up and goddamn try. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Birth of Serpents Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's "sink low, rise high" at the end there, but otherwise this sounds right to me. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Satanic Messiah Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| “Man, I put out that song and I couldn’t for the life of me have thought that people would go, oh, well, it has the word 'messiah' in it, and there’s been a totally lame right-wing meme about the Democratic candidate having Messianic qualities, so John must have written a song about the fucking election. NO.” | |
| The Mountain Goats – I've Got the Sex Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I failed to look up "basal body temperature" until after I'd put this on a mix CD for a nursing student I was dating. Whoops. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Old College Try Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about the determination to see this ugly, broken, fucked-up thing through to its bitter, hateful, pointless end. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Insurance Fraud #2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think he means "sister" literally. This is a song about denial. The guy and his wife used to joke about burning down their house and retiring to Cancun with the money. One night they have a fight, she leaves, and wrecks the car. Instead of mourning her, he gets angry, insisting she faked her death. |
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