Pigs That Run Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of Mountain Goats

[spoken:] The story of the pigs who ran straightaway into the water and their great triumph Youre gonna send me back to where I came from Please dont send me back to where I came from Let me go where

The Young Thousands Mountain Goats

Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo And the sunlight on the water Sets a switch off in your brain The things that you've got coming will consume you There's someone waiting out

Tianchi Lake The Mountain Goats

Children by the water banks Laughing long and loud Changbai's high, fine western peaks Just beneath the clouds Currents in the water Churning in their course Body of a sea lion Head just like a horse Preacher

The Young Thousands The Mountain Goats

Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo And the sunlight on the water sets a switch off in your brain The things that you've got coming will consume you There's someone waiting out there

Home Again Garden Grove Mountain Goats

Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Lets go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Dont let anyone see that youre bleeding Fire up the scanner and keep your

Quito Mountain Goats

When I receive the blessing Ive got coming Im going to raise an ice-cold glass of water And toast the living and the dead whove gone before me And my head will throb like an old wound reopening When

Mole Mountain Goats

I came to see you up there in intensive care They had handcuffed you to your bed There were tubes going into you and out from you Bright white gauze bandages at your head I am a mole Sticking his

San Bernardino The Mountain Goats

We got in your car and we hit the highway Eastern sun was rising over the mountains Yellow and blood-red bits Like a kaleidoscope And flaming swords may guard the garden of Eden But we consulted maps from

New Zion The Mountain Goats

There were signs up in the sky When we gathered by the garden wall Everybody on his best behavior Listening for the altar call High priest of Salem in his robes Ranting of the coming of the day Ravens

Letter From Belgium Mountain Goats

the beams we used to build our house are breaking at last. the building will not hold together very much longer. my arms are young, and they can do the work if called upon to do so.

Lovecraft in Brooklyn The Mountain Goats

It's going to be too hot to breathe today but everybody's out here on the streets Somebody's opened up the fire hydrant, cold water rushing out in sheets Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey asks me for a

Cotton Mountain Goats

This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves in to the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold Were just about to blow This song is for the soil That's toxic clear down to the

Play With The Fire Triumph

I see the passion that burns in your eyes And I feel the spirit inside of me rise When it starts in me In the heart of me There쨈s a part of me burning tonight PRE-CHORUS: When she calls to you, no matter

Elijah The Mountain Goats

Streak the windows, smear the walls with coconut oil, yeah Fill the cast-iron kettle with water and magnolia blossom Let it boil, let the water roll Let the fire take its toll I'm coming home Dust off

Alpha Rats Nest The Mountain Goats

Ah, the lengthening hours in the refinery Belching fire into the sky We do our best vampire routines As we suck the dying hours dry The night is lovely as a rose If I see sunlight hit you I am sure that

RU Down Wit Da Goats The Goats

"Politicians and bigots and pigs" "Politicians and bigots and pigs, oh my!"

Rocky Mountain Way (Live) Triumph

Spent the last year Rocky mountain way We couldn't get much higher Out to pasture I think it's safe to say A time to open fire And we don't need the lady Cryin' 'cause the story's sad Rocky mountain way

Game Shows Touch Our Lives The Mountain Goats

Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin That stuff tastes like medicine But I'll take it It'll do On the couch in the living room all day long Music on the television playing our song And I'm in the mood The

Song for Dennis Brown The Mountain Goats

On the day that Dennis Brown's lung collapsed Spring rain was misting down on Kingston And down at the harbor Local cops were intercepting an inbound shipment And for a while there it was chaos As they

Sail Babylon Springs The Mountain Goats

But meanwhile downstairs, I'm setting up shop A little too proud to let the matter drop And I can hear you up there Isn't it romantic?

Insurance Fraud #2 The Mountain Goats

Bag full of oily rags, fifty cent lighter Dreams of retirement in Cancun burning ever brighter There's a lot of ways to make money in this world But I can't recommend insurance fraud [Verse 2] Burned-out

Animal Sounds Kirine S (Ubwin)

Ducks go quack quack, Ducks go quack quack Goats go meh, Goats go meh Pigs go oink oink, Pigs go oink oink Cows say moo, Cows say moo Ducks go quack quack, Ducks go quack quack Goats go meh, Goats go meh

Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod The Mountain Goats

demons When I come home Spittle bubbling on your lips Fine, white foam I am young and I am good It's a hot southern California day If I wake you up There will be hell to pay And alone in my room I am the

Trick Mirror The Mountain Goats

Seventeen years ago They told me to teach you everything I know Let the fire rain down Rain down Watched it flare up inside his heart Saw it tearing him completely apart Head to toe I know And blood will

In the Craters on the Moon The Mountain Goats

If the strain proves too much Give up right away If the light hurts your eyes Stay in your room all day When the room fills with smoke Lie down on the floor In the declining years Of the long war When

Lion's Teeth The Mountain Goats

The king of the jungle Was asleep in his car When your chances fall in your lap like that You've got to recognize them for what they really are Nobody in this house Wants to own up to the truth I crawl

Palmcorder Yajna 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 late by the time

Home Again Garden Grove The Mountain Goats

Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows Let's go where the jackals are breeding Wrap this bandanna around your head Don't let anyone see that you're bleeding Fire up the scanner and keep your

Cotton The Mountain Goats

This song is for the rats Who hurled themselves into the ocean When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold Were just about to blow This song is for the soil That's toxic clear down to the bedrock

Quito 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 wound reopening When

Have to Explode The Mountain Goats

Tile floor of the bathroom, scrubbed clean and bright Checkerboard white and gray Towels from the Ritz Carlton hotel in Kingston, Jamaica I can still see the rust colored stains today The stage is set,

The Coroner's Gambit The Mountain Goats

When death came calling today I heard the gentle grace of his cadences [Refrain] I couldn't say no I couldn't say no [Verse 2] When he showed me his new silk scarves Laid out on a shiny black plastic tray

Triumph wu-tang clan

never learn It's my testament that does burn Play my position in the game of life, standing firm on foreign land, jump the gun out the frying pan, into the fire Transform into the Ghostrider, a

Triumph The Present

that does burn Play my position in the game of life, standing firm on foreign land, jump the gun out the frying pan, into the fire Transform into the Ghostrider, a six-pack and A Streetcar Named Desire

Water Boy Harry Belafonte

Waterboy, where are you hiding If you don't come right here Gonna tell you pa on you There ain't no hammer That's on a this mountain That ring like mine boy That ring like mine I'm gonna bust this rock

Linda Blair Was Born Innocent Mountain Goats

Gentle hum of the old machines Here we come scrubbed and scoured Patches on our jeans When the drone sounds In the cool night wind We pick up the call Kick all the traces in Hungry for love Ready

Triumph wu-tang clan

never learn It's my testament to those burned Play my position in the game of life, standin firm on foreign land, jump the gun out the fryin pan, into the fire Transform into the Ghostrider, a six-pack

Jaipur The Mountain Goats

This house is so haunted With dead men I can't lose [Verse 1: John Darnielle] I was having visions of sugared pastry Cooked up in clarified butter I tried to turn my visions into prayers But I built my

Family Happiness The Mountain Goats

As we cruised across the Canadian border You reached into your handbag and puled out a micro-cassette recorder Started quoting Tolstoy into the machine, I had no idea what you meant Guess I'm supposed

Long Time Gone Triumph

You say you're not afraid behind your walls of pride They keep the world away but something's trapped inside I'll go any way the wind blows And you know the storm comes and the river will run You better

Your Belgian Things Mountain Goats

from danger The men were here to get your Belgian things They'll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures My camera groans beneath the weight it bears I can

Butter Teeth The Mountain Goats

We spilled out through the front door Into the blinding lade light Sun reflected on the storefront windows Tremendously bright We were norwegians come down from the north Attacking the walls of the fortress

Mole The Mountain Goats

I came to see you up there in intensive care They had handcuffed you to your bed There were tubes threading into you, coming out from you Bright white gauze bandages at your head I am a mole Sticking his

Rumblefish The Goats

Reach for glock but it's locked on safety Say G, do you think that blackfish is tasty?

Wait for You The Mountain Goats

When it came time to wait for you I took the bus to malibu Found a cafe by the ocean Watched the sky for signs And a rainbow in the west Wrapped its coils around the earth like a serpent I felt like I

Running In The Night Triumph

Late in the evening Emotions running wild The shivers in your fingers tell no lies I know I make you crazy I don't want to break your heart CHORUS: Bout ooh, ooh come with me girl Running in the

Palmcorder Yajna 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 late by the time we

Triumph Kevin Morby

Paint the water, with a paintbrush Paint the river, shouldn't take much Pour Chris another drink Poor Chris lived on my street He'd say baby baby, the world will drive you crazy And lately I've been thinking

Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident The Mountain Goats

Slumped up against the sink Hair plastered to her cheeks Marduk t-shirt sticking to her skin Refugee from a disco in old East Berlin Weightless Formless Blameless Nameless Stray syllables were gurgling

Pale Green Things 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 up through the cracks Pale