There Will Be No Divorce The Mountain Goats

The rain fell all night And it kept me awake It was still falling by morning It was hard to take And you were sleeping on the floor Breathing free and even If I ever want to drive myself insane All I have

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

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

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

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

Island Garden Song The Mountain Goats

I will sail to the far shore And I will chop a hole in the hull too big to repair And I will turn the soil with my hands And I will make my home there [Chorus] My garden will grow so high My garden will

Tallahassee The Mountain Goats

Window facing an ill kept front yard Plums on the tree heavy with nectar Prayers to summon the destroying angel Moon stuttering in the sky like a film stuck in a projector And you You Twin prop airplanes

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

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

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

Shadow Song The Mountain Goats

If you get there before me, will you save me a seat? If you get there before me, would you save me a seat? And if I never get there at all Would you leave the seat empty?

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

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 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

Divorce Kelela

Under the surface, I'm lying Fighting the time, now I'm drowning Pushing a rock up a mountain, hey I wanna go, you around it With somebody new Why when it's done, I keep trying?

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.

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

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

Your Belgian Things Mountain Goats

from danger The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures My camera groans beneath the weight it bears I can

Quito The Mountain Goats

When I receive the blessing I've got coming I'm going to raise an ice-cold glass of water And toast the living and the dead who've gone before me And my head will throb like an old wound reopening When

Heretic Pride The Mountain Goats

Well, they come and pull me from my house And they drag my body through the streets And the sun's so hot I think I'll catch fire and burn up In the summer air so moist and sweet And the people all come

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

San Bernardino The Mountain Goats

We got in your car and we hit the highway Eastern sun was rising over the mountains Yellow and blood-red bits Like a kaleidoscope And flaming swords may guard the garden of Eden But we consulted maps from

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

No Children The Mountain Goats

I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us I hope we come up with a fail safe plot To piss off the dumb few that forgave us I hope the fences we mended Fall down beneath their own

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

Cotton The Mountain Goats

This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves 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

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

Divorce Wanda Jackson

Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E The words we're hiding from him now tear the heart

Trick Mirror The Mountain Goats

Seventeen years ago They told me to teach you everything I know Let the fire rain down Rain down Watched it flare up inside his heart Saw it tearing him completely apart Head to toe I know And blood will

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

You Or Your Memory The Mountain Goats

I checked into a bargain priced room on La Cienega Gazed out through the curtains at the parking lot Walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet Black tarry asphalt, soft and

Tianchi Lake The Mountain Goats

Children by the water banks Laughing long and loud Changbai's high, fine western peaks Just beneath the clouds Currents in the water Churning in their course Body of a sea lion Head just like a horse Preacher

Mountain Dornik

be between, you and me You won't have to climb no mountain Wherever I go I'll take you there There's no need for you to fear every cliff, I will be here You won't have to climb no mountain If only you

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

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

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

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

Dinu Lipatti's Bones The Mountain Goats

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

Southwood Plantation Road The Mountain Goats

I got you You've got whatever's left in me to get Our conversations are like minefields No one's found a safe way through one yet I spent a lot of money I buy you white gold We raise up a little roof Against

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

Baboon The Mountain Goats

The sun came up above the strange, white plain Blood red flowers all white with rain And the spirit wasn't really willing anymore But the flesh was very, very strong I've got very little money left And

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 the

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

Insurance Fraud #2 The Mountain Goats

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 shell of a Volkswagen Blood stains on the

Alpha Rats Nest The Mountain Goats

Ah, the lengthening hours in the refinery Belching fire into the sky We do our best vampire routines As we suck the dying hours dry The night is lovely as a rose If I see sunlight hit you I am sure that

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

Have to Explode The Mountain Goats

Tile floor of the bathroom, scrubbed clean and bright Checkerboard white and gray Towels from the Ritz Carlton hotel in Kingston, Jamaica I can still see the rust colored stains today The stage is set,

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

Palmcorder Yajna The 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 we