i love the life of the world to come but it really fucks me up because whenever i think of it the first song that comes to mind is “psalms 4:20” and it usually takes me a full minute to realize that Actually, That’s Not Right
He has blazed me from the pit and set me high
Tag: the mountain goats
160. The Last Limit of Bhakti
I’m not sure whether “Let me serve you with my tongue” is supposed to be dirty or not.
Likewise, I’m not sure whether this song is addressed to a lover or to God. ‘Bhakti’ means, apparently, “devotional worship directed to one supreme deity”. So I’m more inclined towards to think it’s a love song.
“Leave this grieving sand and sky far behind” is such a good turn of phrase. Also note the lyric change in the bridge (“let me hear the machines’ great gears squeal and wheelgrind” – it’s just “grind” in the album version.)
Grateful today to be in a world where this song exists
This is a song about how sometimes you think to yourself, ‘I’m going to go to that host body in which I am cultivating organs at the behest of the US government, I’m going to go to that body and I am going to eat the things in it.’ I mean, that’s what this song is about because I wanted to write something that everyone could relate to.
John Darnielle introducing Emerging, Somerville Theatre on 2009-03-25 (via tmgbanter)
i won’t get better, but someday i’ll be free/cause i am not this body that imprisons me
i’ll be reborn someday, someday/if i wait long enough
nobody’s gonna drag you up/to get into the light where you belong
you can’t holler down my rain barrel
you can’t climb my apple tree
i don’t wanna play in your yard
if you won’t be good to me
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
i wish that every single youtube video for an early mountain goats song did not have alibi as its “up next”, not because i do not absolutely love alibi bc i am on record as so doing, but bc i am attempting to discourage myself from a certain kind of …… bitchy superiority, which emotion the song inspires in me. also because i’m trying to do an early-tmg-only thing for a while in hopes that someday i’ll listen to coroner’s gambit. i haven’t managed it yet
Me: but back on subject, who do you want The Mountain Goats to team up with, Hozier or Florence and the Machine
Amelia: Pitbull
Me: [RACUOUS FIVE MINUTES WITCH CACKLE LAUGHTER]
Amelia: anyway what were your options again, you said the first part and I immediately stopped listening because I was waiting for my turn to speak
Me: doesn’t even fucking matter
Me: pitbull ft the mountain goats is the only fucking thing that can heal our nation
“IT’S MISTER WORLDWIDE”
“hi”
“AND THE SADDEST MAN I’VE EVER MET. EVERY DAY YOU’RE ABOVE GROUND IS A BLESSING, RIGHT, SAD MAN???”
“Matthew 6:25-27. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?“
“LIVE FROM MIAMI, THANK YOU, SAD MAN!!!!!!”
must a sport be entertaining to watch? 