How to Embrace a Swamp Creature The Mountain Goats

Got out of 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

Ox Baker Triumphant The Mountain Goats

I will rise from the swamp where they dumped my private plane I'll be clutching the life preserver in my teeth And I will find the highway And I will flag down a truck Worry lines on my forehead, blank

See America Right The Mountain Goats

I was driving in from Tampa when the radiator burst I was three sheets to the wind, a civilian saw me first And then there was the cop and then the children standing on the corner Your love is like a cyclone

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,

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

Creature Lives Mastodon

I saw the creature fall Into the swamp from which he spawned I heard them laugh and say They never liked him anyway I tried to talk to them To help you on your feet again They laughed and said to me The

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 'Cause

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

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

All Up The Seething Coast Mountain Goats

I eat a couple Milky Ways for breakfast I take my coffee light and sweet Show up for dinner when you tell me to I heap the sugar high and white on everything I eat Carry an apple in my pocket I write

Palmcorder Yajna Mountain Goats

Holt Boulevard Between Gary and White Hooked up with some friends at the Travelodge Set ourselves up for the night Carpenter ants in the dresser Flies in the screen It will be too late by the time

Cotton Mountain Goats

This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves in to 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

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

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

[spoken:] The story of the pigs who ran straightaway into the water and their great triumph Youre gonna send me back to where I came from Please dont send me back to where I came from Let me go where

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 When

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

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.

Swamp Talking Heads

Now lemme tell you a story The devil he has a plan A bag a' bones in his pocket Got anything you want No dust and no rocks The whole thing is over All these beauties in solid motion All those beauties

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

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

Against Pollution The 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 'Cause

Lovecraft in Brooklyn The Mountain Goats

It's going to be too hot to breathe today but everybody's out here on the streets Somebody's opened up the fire hydrant, cold water rushing out in sheets Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey asks me for a

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

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

The Coroner's Gambit The Mountain Goats

When death came calling today I heard the gentle grace of his cadences [Refrain] I couldn't say no I couldn't say no [Verse 2] When he showed me his new silk scarves Laid out on a shiny black plastic tray

Idylls of the King The Mountain Goats

This place with its old plantations These roads leading out to the sea This day full of promise and potential More clay pigeons for you and me All of them, all of them All of them, all of them All of them

Peacocks The Mountain Goats

I hear them squeal I see them preen Fans all spread out Neat and clean Grab hold of the morning Head out to the porch Feel the wind stopping Feel the sun scorch I fear for my safety You can see it in my

Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise The Mountain Goats

This is just to say hello And to let you know I think of you from time to time I know I never really knew you, but somehow I miss you And wish that you'd stayed in my life Making contact gets harder as

Song for Dennis Brown The Mountain Goats

On the day that Dennis Brown's lung collapsed Spring rain was misting down on Kingston And down at the harbor Local cops were intercepting an inbound shipment And for a while there it was chaos As they

Swamp Jean Dawson

Now let me tell you a story The devil, he has a plan A bag of bones in his pocket Get anything you want No dust, no rocks And the whole thing is over All the beauties in solid motion All the beauties,

Swamp That Petrol Emotion

When the cold wind blows And the air is damped with fear Can't rely on the stars to die Until the one you're still holdin' In a swamp In a swamp You're just another bit tumbled You sit around the light

Swamp Trashlord

pseudo bed lifetime, gone copy paste and call it art you've been down so long follow me to the swamp where you'll drown in scum such a beautiful form floating right­side up get your wings clipped off fabricated

Wait for You The Mountain Goats

When it came time to wait for you I took the bus to malibu Found a cafe by the ocean Watched the sky for signs And a rainbow in the west Wrapped its coils around the earth like a serpent I felt like I

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

Old College Try The Mountain Goats

From the housetops to the gutters From the ocean to the shore The warning signs have all been bright and garish Far too great in number to ignore From the cities to the swamplands From the highways to

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

Design Your Own Container Garden The Mountain Goats

I took to the highway Went out to Pico-Crenshaw Old friends, old friends I took to the highway The highway took to me Like a second skin Rolled around in the evening Circling like a buzzard Trouble in

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

Oceanographer's Choice The Mountain Goats

Well, guy in a skeleton costume comes 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

Michael Myers Resplendent The Mountain Goats

I am ready for my close-up today Too long I've let my self-respect stand in my way Well, the prom queen's caught in the high beams And the strings keen, it's a big scene But when the house goes up in flames

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

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

Slumped up against the sink Hair plastered to her cheeks Marduk t-shirt sticking to her skin Refugee from a disco in old East Berlin Weightless Formless Blameless Nameless Stray syllables were gurgling

International Small Arms Traffic Blues The Mountain Goats

My love is like a powder keg My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse Somewhere just outside of town About to burn down My love is like a Cuban plane My love is like a Cuban plane

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

Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace The Mountain Goats

The clouds explode and then the desert blooms Someone will need to mop this floor for me When I emerge, I find my car Like a cathedral in a dream of the future Drive until the rain stops Keep driving Pull

Collapsing Stars The Mountain Goats

When we hid out behind the risers at the high school Working bitter calculations with a slide rule The grim particulars of poisoning the swimming pool The way you looked me in the eye, ready to die We

Insurance Fraud #2 The Mountain Goats

Bag full of oily rags, fifty cent lighter Dreams of retirement in Cancun burning ever brighter There's a lot of ways to make money in this world But I can't recommend insurance fraud [Verse 2] Burned-out

All Up the Seething Coast The Mountain Goats

I eat a couple Milky Ways for breakfast I take my coffee light and sweet Show up for dinner when you tell me to I heap the sugar high and white on everything I eat Carry an apple in my pocket I write reminders

Sail Babylon Springs The Mountain Goats

But meanwhile downstairs, I'm setting up shop A little too proud to let the matter drop And I can hear you up there Isn't it romantic?

Sax Rohmer #1 The Mountain Goats

Fog lifts from the harbor, dawn goes down today An agent crests the shadows of the nearby alleyway Piles of broken bricks, sign posts on the path Every moment points towards the aftermath Yeah ah ah Sailors