Тексты песен «Mountain Goats»

When I hear the screeching weather vane In the wild wind and the pissing rain I know that one of us, I'm not saying who, Has got rocks in her head The rain comes through the open window But you don't think so I sure do...

When I catch sight of your face And the late light falling on it I feel scared and I scope the area out for a good place to hide When I feel the way your fingers Wiggle in my palm I feel warm and I feel good inside And...

When I saw it on the bakery carousel I knew I had to have it for my own I eased it out And I brought it home Why don't you try some I already had some myself Is that the most delicious thing You ever tasted in your...

Rain all burned away The horseflies are an irridecent green Plums boiled down to pulp Drying on a screen Bright red air inside the house here I can barely draw breath Dark blue shapes popped behind my eyelids I am not...

If you really want to conjur up a ghost Cultivate a space for things that hurt you most Rake the sands until they surface Bind their tiny eyes Stake out your position let your armor fall Stay put till they find you it...

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 green...

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 learn What these...

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 eyes In an...

You're gonna send me back to where I came from Please don't send me back to where I came from Let me go where the white magnolias grow You're gonna fit me for that orange jumpsuit Please don't fit me for that orange...

Wind out of Oklahoma this morning Smelled like blood and smoke And the crows discussed their future In the branches of their Louisiana live oak The limbs are strong and heavy And it's leaves are all aglow And the...

You wake up in the morning feeling gloriously alive With the firm conviction that the problems that disturbed you in the past Will now disappear disappear disappear Into the midnight of your consciousness. I went down...

Gather you wolves from graveyards when I get home bury them again Wonder if you'll ever get the chance to ask me why I turned you in I save my own skin but I live to fight, I live to fight another day Still remember how...

I meant to leave the house this morning And begin making my way toward where you are I meant to leave the house this morning I made it halfway across the front yard But the plum tree hung heavy in my head And the plum...

He touched me and suddenly It's a cold night in sonora And the stars are out in full force It's a moment the world has been waiting for When you set the world back on course Into the fire you go (x2) It's a strange...

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 I get off the...

We live high Our love gorges on the alcohol we feed it And it grows all fat and friendly We have surplus if we need it We hold on as hard as we can Our knuckles are white We write letters to each other Invent secrets...

I was driving up 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 in a swamp...

In an hour or two The sun will rise on you And it will be clear what has happened between us. In an hour or two The wind will come through the window. The wind will tear through the house. I am creeping up the staircase...

I cut down that withered peach tree Just like you asked me to. And I hacked it into pieces Set it on fire with your face in plain view At the near window where you stood Watching me split the wood I will do as I am...

I bet you don't know... I cut down that withered peach tree just like you asked me to. and I hacked it into pieces set it on fire with your face in plain view at the near window where you stood watching me split...