The Mountain Goats

[fox69]

"Deuteronomy 2:10"

"Deuteronomy 2:10"



The sun above me and a concrete floor below
Scratch at the chain links, maybe bare my teeth for show
Fed twice a day, I don't go hungry anymore
Feel in my bones just what the future has in store

I pace in circles
So the camera will see
Look hard at my stripes
There'll be no more after me

Laze by the shoreline while the sailors disembark
Scratch out a place to sit and rest down in the dark
Smell something burning downwind just a little ways
They set up camp and sing and sweat and work for days

I have no fear of anyone
I'm dumb and wild and free
I am a flightless bird
And there'll be no more after me

In Costa Rica, in a burrow underground
Climb to the surface, blink my eyes and look around
I'm all alone here as I try my tiny song
Claim my place beneath the sky, but I won't be here for long

I sang all night
The moon shone on me through the trees
No brothers left
And there'll be no more after me

 

[fox69]

"Dilaudid"

"Dilaudid"



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 won't

If we get our full three-score and ten
We won't pass this way again
So kiss me with your mouth open
Turn the tires toward the street and stay sweet

All the chickens come on home to roost
Plump bodies blotting out the sky
You know it breaks my heart in half, in half
When I see them try to fly

'Cause you just can't do
Things your body wasn't meant to
Hike up your fishnets
I know you

If we live to see the other side of this
I will remember your kiss
So do it with your mouth open
And take your foot off of the brake, for Christ's sake!

 

[fox69]

"Dinu Lapatti's Bones"

"Dinu Lapatti's Bones"



We stank of hair dye and ammonia
We sealed ourselves away from view
You were looking at the void and seldom blinking
The best that I could do was to train my eyes on you

We scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface
Scraped our fingers bloody on the stones
And built a little house that we could live in
Out of Dinu Lipatti's bones

We kept our friends at bay all summer long
Treated the days as if they'd kill us if they could
Wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets
To keep wintertime at bay, but December showed up anyway

There was no money; it was money that you wanted
I went downtown, sold off most of what I owned
And we raised a tower to broadcast all our dark dreams
From Dinu Lipatti's bones

 

[fox69]

"Dirty Old Town"
(originally by The Pogues)

"Dirty Old Town"
(originally by The Pogues)



I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed a girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Clouds a drifting across the moon
Cats a prowling on their beat
Springs a girl in the street at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
Heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town
I'm going to make me a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
Will chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

 

[fox69]

"Distant Stations"

"Distant Stations"



I found an old rock in the dry dirt outside
The door of my motel room
It was a triangle with soft, rounded edges and a split down the middle of one corner
It was darker than English moss, green like the soft frills of a peacock's plume

I waited for you but I never told you where I was
It was who taught me how to write these kinds of equations
I waited on the steps for you and I hid in the bushes whenever a car pull into the parking lot
You taught me how to listen to these distant stations

Distant stations

I saw the sky break
I threw a rock at a crow who was playing in the mulch of some rosebushes by the motel office
Missed him by a good yard or two

I sang old songs from nowhere
Los Angeles, Albuquerque
I said a small prayer for the poor and the naked and the hungry
And I prayed real hard for you

I waited for you but I never told you where I was
It was who taught me how to write these kinds of equations
I waited on the steps for you and I hid in the bushes whenever a car pull into the parking lot
You taught me how to listen to these distant stations

Distant stations

 

[fox69]

"Don't Take The Dogs Away"

"Don't Take The Dogs Away"



Don't take the dogs away.
Don't take that dog away from me.
Don't take the dogs away.
Don't take the dogs away from me.

You do this every time.
You do this every time I swear.
You do this every time.
You do this every time I learned.

Just look around.
Just look around the house we're in.
What should i say to you?
Where do you want me to begin?

Don't take the dogs away.
Don't take the dogs away from me.
Don't take the dogs away.
Don't take the dogs away from me.

 

[fox69]

"Down Here"

"Down Here"



On Venus it rains sulphuric acid
And the raindrops evaporate before they hit the ground
Japanese red-crowned cranes by the water here
Trouble in town

I feel like I'm gonna drown down here
It's all coming down down here

Hurricanes in from Australia
Tore up the neighborhood
A telegram from Lithuania
And the news is not good

And I don't speak the language down here
It's all coming down down here

Johnson Johnson is my name
Brooklyn is my station
Heaven is my resting place
God is my salvation

 

[fox69]

"Downtown Seoul"

"Downtown Seoul"



There was a new song on the air
I saw you coming across the square
And a white bird broke the dark Korean sky
As the rest of my life went by

Had your warm hand on my face
I took your index finger in between my teeth and I held it gently in place
It was resting lightly on my tongue in there
I saw you shaking in the cold Korean air

There but for the grace of the lord of song
I would be this very second and I'm coming right along
You had your cardigan on
I looked toward the sky, the white bird was gone

I remember your eyelids
I remember your body now

 

[fox69]

"Duke Ellington"

"Duke Ellington"



The light hit the rings
Glimmering on his fingers
The light came down
And his hands hit the keys
It utterly wasted me in sweden
The horns punched the air
The aftermath fell around everywhere
I saw the spotlight land on his rings
And i'd had just about enough losing things
In sweden in nineteen sixty-two
Quite some distance from you

 

[fox69]

"Dutch Orchestra Blues"

"Dutch Orchestra Blues"



Somewhere in secret, the dutch orchestra's playing.
Somewhere in secret, the dutch orchestra's playing.
Real nice.
Real nice.

And they play so quiet, you can hear the passing traffic.
They play so quiet, you can hear the passing traffic.
And the cars buzz by, and the wind blows.
And i may walk past/fast?, and i may not.
And someone may notice, or it may all slide right by.
And you may love me, or you may not love me at all anymore.
But the sun will shine on holland in the spring.
And god will watch over the members of the orchestra for me
With all his available energies.
Yeah yeah