You were born for these flashing lights
You were born for these endless nights
You always knew sooner or later
You were destined for something greater
You took notes on what you ha...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
(One, two, three)
Here at a truck stop in New Mexico just before dawn
Somebody's grandma behind the wheel of a big rig
Pulling in with her headlights on
We smoke a cigarette as th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
When stray dogs finally catch you in the alley
You don't consider their point of view
But when the wounds are healed, and the scars are shiny
Sometimes then you do
The terms are v...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
One, two
One, two
It's not the barnacles that do all the damage
Figure this out too late
It's not the destination that makes the difference
It's the freight
Everything becomes a ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
Echoes from a nursery rhyme
Hide in plain sight all this time
Here you come splashing in your summer clothes
You and your pale pink toes
Just there where the shadow falls
There we ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
I'm not thinking of you
When I swing left onto Gordon Avenue
It's just the way the traffic veers
Haven't driven down these streets in years
But then I pass the last place I saw yo...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
Toward the tail-end of the age that's almost finished
Where the highway starts to crack and nobody fixes it
I was wandering through an undeveloped tract
Out near the ocean
One-hund...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
I'm going to do what I like
I'm going to live how I want
I'm going to build myself a great estate
With lots of statues out front
Choirs from the Curtis Institute
Singing me to sle...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
Meek subjects by torchlight come to pay their respects
As foretold by the ancient texts
Line snaking down the sewer
Reverent hush upon the crowd
One by one we approach
The figure i...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
Live among the starving wolves
Get lost inside the pack
Pull at a carcass 'til my tooth breaks
Your grown-up teeth
They don't grow back
They don't grow back
Find a clearing in the...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats