Roger Patterson Van Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Sir_Pants 

Cover art for Roger Patterson Van lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

This song is incredible.

The line "When you load on something heavy, you’ve gotta watch your back" really gets me

This song must be referring to the late bassist, Roger Patterson, of the Floridian technical death metal band Atheist. Kelly Shaefer is also the name of the band's guitarist/vocalist. Roger Patterson died in a car crash.

"When you load on something heavy, you've gotta watch your back"... this line made me cry.

A good friend of my parents, like an uncle to me, was a truck driver. He was out for a while, and on his first day back, they over-loaded his truck, and he crashed, and the steel load he was carrying crashed right into the cab.

And that's all I could think of when I heard that line.