Lyric discussion by noonday 

Cover art for Distant Stations lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

i love this one. of his newer stuff, it's one of my favorites...

to me, it's about what it's like to have lived many different places, and to miss the lives you had,and the people in them. you feel lost, and not grounded in place or time, and you want those people in your life, but you don't, too, in many ways, for as many reasons as there are people. "i sang old songs from nowhere. los angeles, albuquerque. i said a small prayer for the poor and the naked and the hungry and i prayed real hard for you..." sigh.