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Andy made a post about awesome Mountain Goats lyrics so I will copy him yet again and list my favorites. But rather than list lyrics I'll just put songs, or parts of songs, and I'll limit myself to my favorite four of the moment. After all I'm nowhere near the authority that dude is : /
(No Children)
In my life, I hope I lie,
and tell everyone you were a good wife.
And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow;
I hope it bleeds all day long. (Yes)
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises;
we're pretty sure they're all wrong.
I hope it stays dark forever,
I hope the worst isn't over.
And I hope you blink before I do,
and I hope I never get sober.
And I hope when you think of me years down the line,
you can't find one good thing to say.
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out,
you'd stay the hell out of my way. (Yes)
I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me,
hand in unlovable hand.
And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.
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(Game Shows Touch Our Lives)
dug up a fifth of hood river gin,
and that stuff tastes like medicine
but I'll take it, it'll do.
on the couch in the living room all day long,
music on the television playing our song.
I'm in the mood,
the mood for you.
turn the volume up real high,
all of that money, look at it fly.
and you smoking like a chimney.
shadows crawled across the livingroom's length,
I held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything. with everything in me.
I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing on which our survival depends .
people say friends dont destroy one another, what do they know about friends? (Yes)
thunder clouds forming, cream white moon, everything's gonna be okay soon.
maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day.
carried you up the stairs that night,
all of this could be yours, if the price is right.
I heard cars headed down to oblivion on the expressway.
your drunken kiss is as light as the air,
maybe everything that falls down, eventually rises.
our house sinking into disrepair,
I would look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes.
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(Minnesota)
and you're singing in dutch to me,
and I recognize the song.
it seems so old, so fragile,
and I haven't heard it in so long.
we may throw the windows open later,
but we are not as far west as we suppose we are.
hot wind coming off the water;
sky gone crazy with stars (fucking YES most beautifully delivered line I've ever heard)
when we stay here we imagine we are alive,
we see shadows on the wall.
there's something waiting for us here in the hot wet air;
sweat, (can't understand) and alcohol.
just the old love-
rising up between the wooden floors again
just the old blood-
asking for more again
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(Black Molly)
Black Mollys in the aquarium,
darting back and forth as though an earthquake were certain.
And I turned up the heater.
I ripped off my shirt.
And I grabbed hold of my stereo,
and I threw it out the window.
you were in town again
you'd come around again
you are dragging me down again
with you
siamese fighting fish flashing like sparklers,
it started to rain.
And the telephone rang a couple of times;
so I put a bullet through its cold dead brain. (amazing)
And I got out my photographs of you.
And I put bullets through all of them too. (yes)
you were in town again
you'd come around again
you are dragging me down again
with you
_________________________________________________
(No Children)
In my life, I hope I lie,
and tell everyone you were a good wife.
And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow;
I hope it bleeds all day long. (Yes)
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises;
we're pretty sure they're all wrong.
I hope it stays dark forever,
I hope the worst isn't over.
And I hope you blink before I do,
and I hope I never get sober.
And I hope when you think of me years down the line,
you can't find one good thing to say.
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out,
you'd stay the hell out of my way. (Yes)
I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me,
hand in unlovable hand.
And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.
_________________________________________________
(Game Shows Touch Our Lives)
dug up a fifth of hood river gin,
and that stuff tastes like medicine
but I'll take it, it'll do.
on the couch in the living room all day long,
music on the television playing our song.
I'm in the mood,
the mood for you.
turn the volume up real high,
all of that money, look at it fly.
and you smoking like a chimney.
shadows crawled across the livingroom's length,
I held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything. with everything in me.
I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing on which our survival depends .
people say friends dont destroy one another, what do they know about friends? (Yes)
thunder clouds forming, cream white moon, everything's gonna be okay soon.
maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day.
carried you up the stairs that night,
all of this could be yours, if the price is right.
I heard cars headed down to oblivion on the expressway.
your drunken kiss is as light as the air,
maybe everything that falls down, eventually rises.
our house sinking into disrepair,
I would look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes.
_________________________________________________
(Minnesota)
and you're singing in dutch to me,
and I recognize the song.
it seems so old, so fragile,
and I haven't heard it in so long.
we may throw the windows open later,
but we are not as far west as we suppose we are.
hot wind coming off the water;
sky gone crazy with stars (fucking YES most beautifully delivered line I've ever heard)
when we stay here we imagine we are alive,
we see shadows on the wall.
there's something waiting for us here in the hot wet air;
sweat, (can't understand) and alcohol.
just the old love-
rising up between the wooden floors again
just the old blood-
asking for more again
_________________________________________________
(Black Molly)
Black Mollys in the aquarium,
darting back and forth as though an earthquake were certain.
And I turned up the heater.
I ripped off my shirt.
And I grabbed hold of my stereo,
and I threw it out the window.
you were in town again
you'd come around again
you are dragging me down again
with you
siamese fighting fish flashing like sparklers,
it started to rain.
And the telephone rang a couple of times;
so I put a bullet through its cold dead brain. (amazing)
And I got out my photographs of you.
And I put bullets through all of them too. (yes)
you were in town again
you'd come around again
you are dragging me down again
with you
_________________________________________________