Тексты песен «Mountain Goats»

Long dinner with some friends Way out way out in Portmore Servants of he pharaoh Slip in through the open door All business Bearing knives and zip-guns So get on the floor now every last one Every last one The heat...

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 Ready for the future Ready...

When I ask you to look at me You look away. I ask you to tell me something nice once. You come at me with all your hot lights on display. I know you're changing. Damn you. I know you're changing. God damn you for that...

You came down from heaven to the branch outside my window Your feathers were the color of snow The dice were loaded against us ever seeing each other But one of us had nowhere else to go In your eyes were all the...

John: oh you don't want to start like that? you want me to do the thing. Rachel: that's not how we ever start it. Well you were standing in the door While I wondered what you were waiting for I saw the wild...

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 handcuffed...

No one washed behind my ears. High in the trees alone for years, Practicing my solitary scales 'til they rose like balloons Watching them go where they will go. Face in the leaves, song in my throat. Fall through the...

Sun twinkling on the river this evening I tasted chocolate on my tongue Darkness climbing up the ladders to the sky Rung by agonizing rung I heard firecrackers popping next door Wondered what it is I bargained for When...

Doll squad's at the drive-in It's 1973 The fruit is full and fat this year on the orange trees Which grow in clusters The city sixty miles away As the sunset tries desperately to break through the gray And the stardust...

Once a week I make the drive To the Austen post office box I take the detour Through our old neighborhood See all the Chevy Impalas in their frontyards Up on blocks And I park in an alley And I read through the...

Bang the small rocks on the big ones Till the small ones are sharp and clean Catch something, kill something New blade cuts real keen And then the grass grows up to cover up the firepit and the forge Half a world away...

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

You smile at me in total defiance of all decency You've got it down to a science, that innocent look You've got it practiced real good But I know you'd kill me if you could stand the sight of blood If I'd been a...

Toward the end of our first year in Las Vegas, You looked up from your little corner And I saw that your face was getting a little brighter. And then you asked me, "Is it really getting warmer Or is it just me?" And...

We were real hungry and half dead When you broke out half a loaf of sourdough bread. And in the tropical air the scent rose like a spirit. Moments of grace like this being wholly unmerited. ahh. We were newly alive and...

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 film stuck in a projector And you You Twin prop airplanes passing loudly...

I caught me a rabbit To keep me company And I'm here in my car And the rabbit's here with me. Heading out Highway 1, Respecting out posted speed limits. And I tried to figure this one out, But I can't find any feeling...

One clear shot or else he gets away Red sun high in the sky tonight Look west from London down toward Hollywood Remember the first days of California You don't wanna see these guys without their masks on You don't wanna...

The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton Was a couple of guys who'd been friends since grade school One's was named Syrus, the other was Jeff, And they practiced twice a week in Jeff's bedroom The Best Ever Death...

And the heat came down And the heat came down I knew I was living in a long, long dream When you fed me the black ice cream And the heat rose up And the heat rose up I heard the loud loud buzzing of our son's go-kart...