If you want to conjure up a ghost
Cultivate a space for the things that hurt you most
Rake the sands until they surface
Blind their tiny eyes
Stake out your position, let y...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The 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 ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
Pulled off the highway in Missouri and low our hearts were heavy laid
Made for the chapel with some spray paint for all the things we'd held in secret
Lord lift up these lifeless...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - 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...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
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 th...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The 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 no...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats
I wanna ride the hydraulics
Lit up like the North Star
I wanna wallow in the spoils before the crowd
I wanna play my guitar
Not gonna sit up and beg
Not gonna do tricks
Not g...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The 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 circli...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - The Mountain Goats