It gets alright to dream at night Believe in solid skies and slate blue earth below But when you see him, you'll know
It's okay to find the faith to saunter forward With no fear of shadows spreading where you stand And you'll breathe easier just knowing that the worst is all behind you And the waves that tossed the raft all night have set you on dry land -Never Quite Free, The Mountain Goats
The sun above me and a concrete floor below Scratch at the chain links, maybe bare my teeth for show Fed twice a day, I don’t go hungry anymore Feel in my bones just what the future has in store I pace in circles, so the camera will see Look hard at my stripes There’ll be no more after me -Deuteronomy 2:10, The Mountain Goats
Make peace with your family You walk softly on this earth
I’m gonna leave a mark on you I’m gonna leave a mark on you I’m gonna leave a mark on you I’m gonna leave a mark on you -Mark on You, The Mountain Goats
From the cities to the swamplands From the highways to the hills Our love has never had a leg to stand on From the aspirins to the cross-tops to the Elavils But I will walk down to the end with you If you will come all the way down with me -Old College Try, The Mountain Goats
Crowd screaming like hounds in the heat of the chase All the colors of the rainbow flood my face I lift right off into space I can see the future, it’s a real dark place Choked out, choked out, choked out Choked out, choked out, choked out -Choked Out, The Mountain Goats
Carry me down to the water Where I used to play when I was five Let me go, let me go down to the water Don’t bring me back alive Do I have to hit you over the head with it? Do I have to hit you over the head with it? -World Cylinder, The Mountain Goats
Let all the trash rain down From way up in the rafters I’m walking out of here in one piece Don’t care what comes after Drive the wedge, torch the bridge I don’t want to die in here I don’t want to die in here -Heel Turn 2, The Mountain Goats
I tried to keep things in perspective As I hunted down the perpetrator Loaded up my toolkit with every hateful instrument Now here we are thirty years later -Getting into Knives, The Mountain Goats
We who in his favor would stand Who lovingly await his most fearsome command We come before you now We come before you now Cut loose the handcuffs Let him go free -Clemency for the Wizard King, The Mountain Goats
I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom A tiger’s never gonna change its stripes I guess I guess but Jesus what a mess One way in and no way out -Your Belgian Things, The Mountain Goats
We who travel by starlight We who slipped past your guards in the night We come before you now We come before you now -Clemency for the Wizard King, The Mountain Goats
You can’t give me back what you’ve taken But you can give me something that’s almost as good
I’m getting into knives I am getting into knives Behold, I stand at the door, and I knock, and then I knock twice I’ve adjusted my focus, I’m getting into knives -Getting into Knives, The Mountain Goats
Look to the West Look to the man Bearing the Sicilian crest
Out of the blue, everything’s new All the talk we heard was true The legends we all heard once, the whispers from the storefronts -Sicilian Crest, The Mountain Goats
Orphans in the sky Say that the time is near Dial into the signal Coming in loud and clear -Sicilian Crest, The Mountain Goats
But the strings will keen And the horns will cry When it’s just me against the sky
I’m doing this for revenge I’m doing this to try and stay true I’m doing this for the ones They left to twist in the wind I’m doing this for you I’m doing this for you -Training Montage, The Mountain Goats
If I can’t run away tonight, I don’t know what I’ll do Hang on to your dreams ‘til someone beats them out of you -From TG&Y, The Mountain Goats
But the blessed heart is seen in the airbrush And the blessed heart is beating on the wind And the bodies of the faithful stacked by dozens by the roadsides Stripped and scourged and skinned Of the several things that you have to do today You’re gonna regret one This generation asks for a sign It isn’t gonna get one -The Mountain Goats, Sign of the Crow 2
