Your Belgian Things Mountain Goats

The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll store them for you in an airplane hangar There's guys in biohazard suits Mud kicking on their rubber boots They've come to keep your pretty things

Your Belgian Things The Mountain Goats

The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll store them for you in an airplane hangar There's guys in biohazard suits, mud caking on their rubber boots They've come to keep your pretty things from

The Young Thousands Mountain Goats

Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo And the sunlight on the water Sets a switch off in your brain The things that you've got coming will consume you There's someone waiting out

Cotton Mountain Goats

the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold Were just about to blow This song is for the soil That's toxic clear down to the bedrock Where no thing of consequence can grow Drop your

Pale Green Things The Mountain Goats

Got up before dawn Went down to the racetrack Riding with the windows down Shortly after your first heart attack You parked behind the paddock Cracking asphalt underfoot Coming up through the cracks Pale

Home Again Garden Grove Mountain Goats

Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Lets go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Dont let anyone see that youre bleeding Fire up the scanner and keep your

The Young Thousands The Mountain Goats

Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo And the sunlight on the water sets a switch off in your brain The things that you've got coming will consume you There's someone waiting out there

Mole Mountain Goats

I came to see you up there in intensive care They had handcuffed you to your bed There were tubes going into you and out from you Bright white gauze bandages at your head I am a mole Sticking his

Pigs That Run Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of Mountain Goats

And even if I have to go to Claremont Well I guess Ill just have to go to Claremont Let me go Let me lie low Yeah but youre going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you And you send your

In the Craters on the Moon The Mountain Goats

If the strain proves too much Give up right away If the light hurts your eyes Stay in your room all day When the room fills with smoke Lie down on the floor In the declining years Of the long war When

All Up The Seething Coast Mountain Goats

sugar by the spoonful Canteloupes and grapes and watermelons I force it down like it was medicine Anybody asks you tell em what you want to tell em But the best youve got is powerless against me All your

Palmcorder Yajna Mountain Goats

for the night Carpenter ants in the dresser Flies in the screen It will be too late by the time we learn What these cryptic symbols mean And I dreamt of a house Haunted by all you tweakers with your

Horseradish Road The Mountain Goats

You're gonna get yours And I'm gonna get mine 'Cause in this car, in this car Somebody's bound to get burned I know, I know 'Cause I've been watching the road turn The Enigma Variations On the radio The things

Dilaudid The Mountain Goats

The reception's gotten fuzzy The delicate balance has shifted Put on your gloves and your black pumps Let's pretend the fog has lifted Now you see me Now you don't Now you say you love me Pretty soon you

So Desperate The Mountain Goats

We were parked in your car In our neutral meeting place, the Episcopalian churchyard I had things I'd been meaning to say But in the dazzling winter sun that late, I could feel them melt away And through

Up the Wolves The Mountain Goats

There's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet No matter where you live There'll always be a few things, maybe several things That you're gonna find really difficult to forgive There's going

Alpha Rats Nest The Mountain Goats

decompose Ah, the fitful sleep and the fire engines That I dream of when I dream Someday we'll both wake up for good I will try hard not to scream The evening wind will shake the blinds You're stirring from your

Love Love Love The Mountain Goats

King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong And Joseph's brothers sold him up the river for a song And Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove Some things you do for money and some you

Family Happiness The Mountain Goats

As we cruised across the Canadian border You reached into your handbag and puled out a micro-cassette recorder Started quoting Tolstoy into the machine, I had no idea what you meant Guess I'm supposed

Slow West Vultures Mountain Goats

Breaking the signal So it's totally unreadable Drinking the dregs Eating the utterly inedible We do what we do All for you All dressed up Black hat and white cane Slowly the circling the drain Read...

Linda Blair Was Born Innocent Mountain Goats

Gentle hum of the old machines Here we come scrubbed and scoured Patches on our jeans When the drone sounds In the cool night wind We pick up the call Kick all the traces in Hungry for love Ready t...

Letter From Belgium Mountain Goats

the beams we used to build our house are breaking at last. the building will not hold together very much longer. my arms are young, and they can do the work if called upon to do so. but the house i...

Quito Mountain Goats

When I receive the blessing Ive got coming Im going to raise an ice-cold glass of water And toast the living and the dead whove gone before me And my head will throb like an old wound reopening Whe...

Against Pollution Mountain Goats

When I worked down at the liquor store Guy with a shotgun came raging through the place Muscled his way behind the counter I shot him in the face This morning I went down to the Catholic Church 'Ca...

Cotton The Mountain Goats

into the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold Were just about to blow This song is for the soil That's toxic clear down to the bedrock Where no thing of consequence can grow Drop your

New Zion The Mountain Goats

the altar call High priest of Salem in his robes Ranting of the coming of the day Ravens at the gates Frightening all the visitors away I lay down by the water Dreamed a dream of where I come from Old things

This Year The Mountain Goats

I broke free on a Saturday morning I put the pedal to the floor Headed north on Mills Avenue And listened to the engine roar My broken house behind me and good things ahead A girl named Cathy wants a little

Butter Teeth The Mountain Goats

at the point of exhaustion You were gorgeous Who's here Just us Nobody else around Stray electrical currents Trying to find the ground We haunted the halls of the pharmacy Artlessly shoplifting random things

Tianchi Lake The Mountain Goats

Out around the temple now Narcissus in bloom Sensors packed with sandalwood Send smoke into the room Children in the sand outside On their hands and knees Sketching pictures all day long Of stranger things

Old College Try The Mountain Goats

walk Down to the end with you If you will come All the way down with me From the entrance to the exit Is longer than it looks from where we stand I want to say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet Things

Lovecraft in Brooklyn The Mountain Goats

pavement, too many blood stains on the ground Rhode Island drops into the ocean No place to call home anymore Lovecraft in Brooklyn Head outside most every day To try to keep the wolves away Imagine nice things

Oceanographer's Choice The Mountain Goats

up to the guy in the Superman suit Runs through him with a broadsword I flip the television off, bring all the bright lights up Turn the radio up loud I don't know why I'm so persuaded That if I think things

You Or Your Memory The Mountain Goats

Joseph's baby aspirin Bartles & Jaymes And you Or your memory I ducked behind the drapes when I saw the moon begin to rise Gathered in my loose ends, switched off the light And down there in the dark I

Home Again Garden Grove The Mountain Goats

Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Let's go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Don't let anyone see that you're bleeding Fire up the scanner and keep your

Broom People The Mountain Goats

'36 Hudson in the garage All sorts of junk in the unattached spare room Dishes in the kitchen sink New straw for the old broom Friends who don't have a clue Well-meaning teachers But down in your arms,

Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod The Mountain Goats

You are sleeping off your demons When I come home Spittle bubbling on your lips Fine, white foam I am young and I am good It's a hot southern California day If I wake you up There will be hell to pay And

Mole The Mountain Goats

I came to see you up there in intensive care They had handcuffed you to your bed There were tubes threading into you, coming out from you Bright white gauze bandages at your head I am a mole Sticking his

Magpie The Mountain Goats

Feed the kittens in the kitchen Set food out for the strays Try hard to do your best The magpie will have his way Fill your mouth with berries By the full light of the moon Work all night if you have to

Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident The Mountain Goats

let myself imagine she was you Only weightless Formless Blameless Nameless And when I washed my hands I ran the water hotter than I could stand Half rising to a crouch Sinking back down to the floor In your

Design Your Own Container Garden The Mountain Goats

I took to the highwayWent out to Pico-CrenshawOld friends, old friendsI took to the highwayThe highway took to meLike a second skinRolled around in the eveningCircling like a buzzardTrouble in mind...

The House That Dripped Blood The Mountain Goats

wine dark honeyed center Not everyone can live like millionaires Look through the air thin walls Tear up the floorboards, strip the paint Go over every inch of space With the patience of a saint Grab your

Idylls of the King The Mountain Goats

up How long will we ride this way about How long 'till someone caves under the pressure My dreams are haunted by armies, armies of ghosts Faces too blurry to make out, numbers far too high to measure Your

Elijah The Mountain Goats

know I'm starving half to death I know you're waiting I know you've been waiting for a long, long time And I'm coming home I'm coming home Set the table, those three extra places: One for me, one for your

Autoclave The Mountain Goats

Hand me your hand, let me look in your eyes As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better

Bluejays and Cardinals The Mountain Goats

Bluejays and cardinals all come out to play; The highway traffic gets out of your way Skies clear up if they're overcast Pitbulls are gentle when you come past The stars come out of hiding for you And

There Will Be No Divorce The Mountain Goats

the static roared again Hungry for blood I heard the rain falling from the rain spout Down, down into the sweet wet mud And you punched out all the windows And the wind began to wail And you gathered your

We Were Patriots The Mountain Goats

Clear sky over Calcutta A warm wind Dvorak on the short wave Clear signal coming in La la la La la la la la la la La la la La la la la la la la Long vowels spill like liquid from your mouth I hang on every

Collapsing Stars The Mountain Goats

enough the change would come And then the day did come, and at last Hold tight Hold fast Catch lightning in a jar Collapsing stars Told you to load up on provisions We wouldn't be back for a while Pack up your

Lion's Teeth The Mountain Goats

The king of the jungle Was asleep in his car When your chances fall in your lap like that You've got to recognize them for what they really are Nobody in this house Wants to own up to the truth I crawl

How to Embrace a Swamp Creature The Mountain Goats

bed, could not remember my own name Condemned to walk the soil amongst all creatures wild and tame Go where I go, do what I must Crawl, starving, on my belly, licking up the dry dust I see the light in your