Тексты песен «Mountain Goats»

The king of the jungle was asleep in his car When your chances fall in your lap like that you got to recognize them for what they really are Nobody in this house wants to own up to the truth I crawl in shotgun and reach...

There's the part you've braced yourself against and then there's the other part Steal up incling northward streets with some weird sickness in the dark Saw your name on the sidewalk, saw your brave face in my mind If...

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

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 magpie...

Lying in the hot sun today Watch as the clouds run away Thought a little while about you The sky was a petrifying blue And while the geese flew past For no reason at all I let the sky fall This is an empty country, and...

Most of the brine has got to boil away Most of the air has got to choke you Most of june I spent in jail again I don't mean jail exactly Up in the pine tree A red squirrel looked down at me I am losing control of the...

A bad dream shook me in my sleep and I woke up sweating. Ran through the dark to the shower, Already forgetting. Tried to think good thoughts. Trying to find my way clear. Let the room fill with steam, Traced pictures...

When I came back from finland The taxi took me down the street I saw the red flowers growing like they used to by the roadside In the smothering summer heat You were standing out in front of the house With your floral...

Seeds came in the mail from holland And the language on the package is wonderful and strange All sorts of flowers that grow up from the earth And goodly colors gloriously arranged I circled the house and I scattered...

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 head above the surface...

Deep is the midnight sea Warm is the fragrant night Sweet are you lips to me Soft as the moon and sand Oh when shall we meet agin When the night has left us Will the spell remain The waves invade the shore Though we...

Went down the the gas station for no particular reason, Heard the screams from the high school -- It's football season. Empty lot the station faces, will probably be there forever. I climbed over the four foot fence, I...

There's a capsicum pepper plant growing out in the backyard There's a capsicum pepper plant growing out in the backyard And I... I am a monster I can't believe the thing I've done. I can't believe the thing I've done...

It's all good to learn that right outside your window There's only friendly fields and open roads And you'll sleep better when you think You've stepped back from the brink And found some peace inside youself Laid down...

You've had it up to here with my west country talk You can hardly understand a word I say The shortest tree around here is a hundred feet tall It's gonna rain today I try and tell you secrets 'til my face turns blue I...

Shadows on the broad lawn, canopy of trees Sometime after midnight, the ground is gonna freeze. Birds in the frosty air, what are they doing there? Greenhouse full of butcher's broom, breezes at my back Some time before...

I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us I hope we come up with a failsafe plot to piss of the dumb few that forgave us I hope the fences we mended Fall down beneath their own weight And I hope...

Well, guy in a skeleton costume Comes up to the guy in the superman suit Runs through him with a broadsword I put the television off Bring all the bright lights up Turn the radio up loud I don't know why I'm so...

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 the hills Our...

I know what my weaknesses are Probably better than you do Revolutionary chinese propaganda The color of blue I thought I knew what my weaknesses were anyway Then the orange tree blossomed last saturday There was nothing...