The other night, I had a revelation as to this song:
Does anyone else see it as the chronologically last song on the album?
With all the talk of "bloated bodies", "open throat(s)", and the implication of renovating the house after the Alphas are gone ("rip the varnish", "pull up the floorboards"), it sounds like detectives are looking at the house after the Alphas are gone, once the male Alpha has killed his wife in a murder-suicide. Thoughts?
if you look at alot of The Mountain Goats songs you'll see that houses are an extended metaphor for relationship in Darnielle's lyrics, (see: The Mess Inside, and Baboon, also somewhat Alpha Rat's nest)
if you look at alot of The Mountain Goats songs you'll see that houses are an extended metaphor for relationship in Darnielle's lyrics, (see: The Mess Inside, and Baboon, also somewhat Alpha Rat's nest)
this song is about a dying relationship, he's ripping through the house for photographs of a time when they were happy "the laughing photographs"
this song is about a dying relationship, he's ripping through the house for photographs of a time when they were happy "the laughing photographs"
The other night, I had a revelation as to this song: Does anyone else see it as the chronologically last song on the album? With all the talk of "bloated bodies", "open throat(s)", and the implication of renovating the house after the Alphas are gone ("rip the varnish", "pull up the floorboards"), it sounds like detectives are looking at the house after the Alphas are gone, once the male Alpha has killed his wife in a murder-suicide. Thoughts?
chronologically the last song is Alpha Omega
chronologically the last song is Alpha Omega
if you look at alot of The Mountain Goats songs you'll see that houses are an extended metaphor for relationship in Darnielle's lyrics, (see: The Mess Inside, and Baboon, also somewhat Alpha Rat's nest)
if you look at alot of The Mountain Goats songs you'll see that houses are an extended metaphor for relationship in Darnielle's lyrics, (see: The Mess Inside, and Baboon, also somewhat Alpha Rat's nest)
this song is about a dying relationship, he's ripping through the house for photographs of a time when they were happy "the laughing photographs"
this song is about a dying relationship, he's ripping through the house for photographs of a time when they were happy "the laughing photographs"