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This Year by The Mountain Goats // Dishes in the Sink by David Showalter

as a certified mountain goats girlie i’m here to tell you that we’ve done enough circulating of “i hope you die / i hope we both die” from no children & now it’s time to circulate these lyrics from you were cool instead

[image description: screenshot of lyrics from You Were Cool, which read:

"I hope you love your life now, like I love mine

I hope the painful memories only flex their power over you a little of the time". /end ID]

hi! this post has come across my dash again so I want to go ahead and add the actual song - it's an unreleased/live only song, which means you won't be able to find it on spotify. the version I've attached here is from Deserters, a fanmade compilation album of unreleased songs. I also want to go ahead and add my favourite quote that John Darnielle has said about this song:

hey john darnielle what the fuck

[id 1: "I died knowing you'd hate me for dying; but Nonagesimus, you hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I'd had your full attention."

id 2: "There's a number of different ways of feeling holy and connected with God. One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can."

end id]

The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride

Whenever I hear 'No Children' by The Mountain Goats, I always think of this bit from a comic by KC Green (that I have modified to suit):

(Original comic here)

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year, I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.

heart shaped bestie necklaces that say “i hope you die” “i hope we both die”

easily the most beautiful version of this song i’ve ever heard.  let it crawl inside your ribs and settle.

“I’ll tell you a secret: most of the songs I used to write were just made up stories but I think I wrote so many made up stories so I could bury the real songs and nobody would catch me. This is a real love song.” JD, 2006

A chart of tumblr posts that overlap in very specific ways that delight me

“I’m always trying to figure out what to say about this god damn song. Part of me wants to say look, it’s about revenge, but as soon as I say that… no, that’s not quite it. Part of me wants to say it’s about the satisfaction of not needing revenge… and i say no, that’s some new age stuff. I think it’s a song about the moment in your quest for revenge when you learn to embrace the futility of it. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you’re headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you’re going to head that way a while longer cause that’s just the kind of person you are.”

— John Darnielle

This Year - The Mountain Goats

Mandatory New Year’s post.

[this year plays in the background]

The Age Of Kings, The Mountain Goats (2011) // David And Saul, Julius Kronberg (1885)

it crests my dashboard and I feel something I can’t name or describe except that it’s awesome and humbling, and I remember the person I wrote the song about; and I think, your story has spoken to so many, in places so far and wide

to survive is to leave a legacy of hope

This is exactly what I needed right now.  Well said and THANK YOU.