Now, it may just be that I'm extremely dense, but I don't understand the line that reads "The sun was sinking into the Atlantic". The sun sets in the west relative to one's position, so how could the narrator be in North Carolina or anywhere in America for that matter and see the sun sinking into the Atlantic?
@ALackofColorHere maybe the narrator was just too mentally ill to realize exactly where the sun was setting. There's another Mountain Goats character (in the song "Baboon" on the Coroner's Gambit album) where an enraged lunatic thinks to sun is rising in the west. So this seems to be a common thing with Mountain Goats characters. They are so mentally unstable that they can't even tell where the sun is rising and setting.
@ALackofColorHere maybe the narrator was just too mentally ill to realize exactly where the sun was setting. There's another Mountain Goats character (in the song "Baboon" on the Coroner's Gambit album) where an enraged lunatic thinks to sun is rising in the west. So this seems to be a common thing with Mountain Goats characters. They are so mentally unstable that they can't even tell where the sun is rising and setting.
Now, it may just be that I'm extremely dense, but I don't understand the line that reads "The sun was sinking into the Atlantic". The sun sets in the west relative to one's position, so how could the narrator be in North Carolina or anywhere in America for that matter and see the sun sinking into the Atlantic?
@ALackofColorHere maybe the narrator was just too mentally ill to realize exactly where the sun was setting. There's another Mountain Goats character (in the song "Baboon" on the Coroner's Gambit album) where an enraged lunatic thinks to sun is rising in the west. So this seems to be a common thing with Mountain Goats characters. They are so mentally unstable that they can't even tell where the sun is rising and setting.
@ALackofColorHere maybe the narrator was just too mentally ill to realize exactly where the sun was setting. There's another Mountain Goats character (in the song "Baboon" on the Coroner's Gambit album) where an enraged lunatic thinks to sun is rising in the west. So this seems to be a common thing with Mountain Goats characters. They are so mentally unstable that they can't even tell where the sun is rising and setting.