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Daily Goat #059 - Green Olives (Unreleased, 1994 live @ Thalia Hall)
The little lemon blossoms In perfect animation And your tangerine perfume Tasted like salvation Green olives on the tree Falling down on me And you coming through the light rain Effortlessly  
And will we then arrive At the house justly appointed To find you in your splendor Righteous and anointed Green olives on the tree Falling down on me And you coming through the light rain Effortlessly  
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Daily Goat #058: Snow Crush Killing Song - Sweden (Live @ The Empty Bottle)
When I ask you to look at me You look away I ask you to tell me something nice once You come at me with all your hot lights on display I know you're changing Damn you I know you're changing Goddamn you for that
When the snow stacked up outside You looked around I could see you from the window I could see the snow coming down I know you're changing Damn you I know you're changing Goddamn you
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Daily Goat #057: Nine Black Poppies - Nine Black Poppies (Live @ Mercury)
"You know, there was a book when I was a kid, uh, by Erma Bombeck, and it was called, uh, something about life being a bowl of cherries, I think she had a punchline. But really, if this - this song had another title, it would quite obviously be 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries'." - John Darnielle
When I got home I meant to give you some sweet chrysanthemum The wind chimes were ringing all wrong And you were standing in the doorway singing along And I tried to rememeber how nice it had been A long long time ago But I couldn't remember I honestly could not remember
And a package came for you today from the Hunan province The postmark burning jet black in the summer sun Someone was changing, someone was changing from the inside out And I turned around to face you
Sweet peas in the garden, all in full bloom And I thought I heard the traces of an old song murmuring in the room Like a half-remembered conversation, but I let it fall away And then I could not remember I honestly could not remember
And a package came for you today, from the Hunan province The postmark burning jet black in the summer sun Someone was changing, someone was changing from the inside out And I turned around to face you
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Daily Goat #056: We Bite - cover (Live @ The Empty Bottle)
1-2-3-4! We walk the streets, I'm out to get you We bite Just a feast of gore and blood We bite Carnivores live for pleasure We bite Strike out like a wolf's endeavor We bite
And when I get some blood, I rip your throat Some blood, I rip your throat I want some blood, I rip your throat To get some blood
We bite We bite We bite We bite
And when I get some blood, I rip your throat Some blood, I rip your throat I want some blood, I rip your throat To get some blood
We bite We bite
And when I get some blood, I rip your throat Some blood, I rip your throat I want some blood, I rip your throat To get some blood
We bite We bite We bite - here we go We bite
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Daily Goat #055: Twin Human Highway Flares - Full Force Galesburg
"This was the first love song I ever wrote for my wife, before she was my wife." - John Darnielle
You turned to me and asked me if I'd always be your boy As we drove across the river into western Illinois And on the railroad bridge, half a mile of solid steel Wheels were spitting out sparks, scraping at the rails Wind in your hair all right Sunset spilling through the rear window Your white t-shirt hugging your shoulders, beaded with sweat On the day that I become so forgetful That all of this melts away I will burn all the calendars that counted the years down to Such a worthless day
As we walked across the parking lot toward the motel office We were walking with a benediction on us Light was everywhere, the building stood against the sky Like a monument to desperation two floors high A mile and a half from the river We went back to the car to get our overnight bags Sunset spilling through your earrings all over your body When we shut the motel room door behind us, we knew we'd hit the motherlode On the day that I forget you, I hope my heart explodes
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Daily Goat #054: Song for Dana Plato - Songs for Peter Hughes
The three month ride sticks in your mind As though the insides of your head were a big screen And coming in on the evening wind It's the unmistakable scent of Brilliantine What kind of memory serves, what kind of world is it that Comes headlong at you and then swerves at the last possible second It's this one Yeah, it's this one
And it's easy to slow down And it's easy to slow down And it's easy just to lie out by the blue pools In the squinting sun and slow down And it's easy to slow down
And in situations like these It's sometimes useful to think of life as one long continuous evening That never turns into night Hey hey
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Daily Goat #053: The Diaz Brothers - Transcendental Youth (Live @ Jordan Lake)
"This song is about how it is extraordinarly important that we have mercy on the Diaz Brothers. It's called 'The Diaz Brothers.'" - John Darnielle
Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line Spend the wet night tracking visions through the pines Draw my arms into my hospital gown See the sky open up and rain down Rain down
Mercy for the Diaz brothers Mercy for the Diaz brothers
Hear my rivals on the western wind Hard to know who might or might not be your friend Work by the plutonian light Forbidden rosary prayers all night All night
Mercy for the Diaz brothers Mercy for the Diaz brothers
Beam of a flashlight All night in the woods Hunt us like dogs And then string us up for good
Keep one step ahead of enemies Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these Lead us to the beach by our hands And bury us there in the sand
Mercy for the Diaz brothers Mercy for the Diaz brothers Mercy for the Diaz brothers Mercy for the Diaz brothers
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Daily Goat #052: Distant Stations - All Hail West Texas
"The song is like a study of inaction, right, of a guy who — if you write indie songs, usually your early narrators are, they think being a stalker is a romantic thing to do. You find this, that all young indie songwriters, myself included, is, they think, 'What is a more romantic figure to cut than a guy who is obsessed with some girl and is stalking her?' Hopefully, though not always, you grow out of that. But you still are interested in these guys who are tormented by these feelings that they have. So, my stalkers don't do jack, that's their new thing, they sort of just think about it and maybe, you know, walk past a building whose name is the same as the state where his intended lives." - John Darnielle
I found an old rock in the dry dirt outside the door of my motel room. it was a triangle with soft rounded edges and a split down the middle of one corner. it was darker than English moss. green like the soft frills of a peacock's plume. I waited for you, but I never told you where I was. it was you who taught me how to write these kinds of equations. I waited on the steps for you, and I hid in the bushes whenever a car pulled into the parking lot. you taught me how to listen to these distant stations. distant stations.
I saw the sky break. I threw a rock at a crow who was playing in the mulch of some rose bushes by the motel office. missed him by a good yard or two. I sang old songs from nowhere. Los Angeles. Albuquerque. I said a small prayer for the poor and the naked and the hungry. and I prayed real hard for you. I waited for you, but I never told you where I was. it was you who taught me how to write this kind of equation. I waited on the steps for you, and I hid in the bushes whenever a car pulled into the parking lot. you taught me how to listen to these distant stations. distant stations.
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Daily Goat #051: Love Love Love - The Sunset Tree (Live @ The Fillmore)
"This is kind of like 'Cubs in Five', if it were a serious song about death." - John Darnielle
King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong And Joseph's brother sold him down the river for a song And Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove Some things you do for money And some you do for love love love
Raskolnikov felt sick and he couldn't say why When he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye Some things you'll do for money Some you'll do for fun But the things you do for love are gonna come back to you One by one
Love, love is gonna lead you by the hand Into a white and soundless place Now we see things As in a mirror dimly Then we shall see each other Face to face
And way out in Seattle, Young Kurt Cobain Snuck out to the greenhouse and put a bullet in his brain Snakes in the grass beneath our feet Rain in the clouds above Some moments last forever But some flare out with Love love love
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Daily Goat #050: See America Right - Tallahassee (Live @ The Society of Ethical Culture)
"It's a song about love, the love you feel for a person who can drink you under the fucking table. Takes its title from the Greyhound Bus Lines." - John Darnielle
I was driving up from Tampa When the radiator burst I was three sheets to the wind A civilian saw me first And then there was the cop And then the children standing on the corner Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp And the weather's getting warmer
I was getting out of jail Heading to the Greyhound You said you'd hop on one yourself And meet me on the way down I was shaking way too hard to think Dead on my feet about to drop Went and got the case of vodka from a car And walked the two miles to the bus stop
Got on the bus half drunk again The driver glared at me Met up with you in Inglis Thumbed a ride to Cedar Key If we never make it back to California I want you to know I love you But my love is like a dark cloud full of rain That's always right there up above you Hey!
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Daily Goat #049: Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck (Live @ Upstate Concert Hall)
"This is a song, um... this is a song about mirrors." - John Darnielle
Brave young cowboys Of the near north side Mount those bridge rails Ride all night
Scream when captured Arch your back Let this whole town hear your knuckles crack
Sapphire Trans-Am High beams in vain Drive wild broncos Down the plain
Push up to the corner Where the turbines hiss Someday we won't remember this
Crawl 'til dawn On my hands and knees God damn these vampires For what they've done to me
Tie those horses To the post outside And let those glass doors Open wide
And in their surface See two young, savage things Barely worth remembering
Feast like pagans Never get enough Sleep like dead men Wake up like dead men
And when the sun comes Try not to hate the light Someday we'll try to walk upright
Crawl 'til dawn On my hands and knees God damn these bite marks Deep in my arteries
Crawl 'til dawn On my hands and knees God damn these vampires For what they've done to me
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Daily Goat #048: Going to Utrecht - Nine Black Poppies
In the morning I looked down Through the third story window overlooking town Across the water somewhere, you were sleeping over there I couldn't believe it, I couldn't believe it Not if I saw it with my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes
In the morning I looked down Through the third story window overlooking town And I saw you, and I know you saw me too I couldn't believe it, I couldn't believe it Not if I saw it with my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes With my own eyes
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Daily Goat #047: Dark as a Dungeon - cover (Live @ Subterranean)
Come and listen you fellers, so young and so fine And seek not your fortune way down in the mine It will form as a habit and seep in your soul 'Til the stream of your blood is as black as the coal
Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the dangers are doubled and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun doesn't shine It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
It's many a man I have known in my day Who lived but to labor his whole life away Like a fiend with his dope, or a drunkard his wine A man must have lust for the lure of the mine
Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the dangers are doubled and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun doesn't shine It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
The morning, the evening, the middle of day They're the same to the miner who labors away And the one who's not careful will never survive One fall of the slate and you're buried alive
Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the dangers are doubled and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun doesn't shine It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
I hope when I die and the ages will roll My body will blacken and turn into coal Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home And pity the miner that's digging my bones
Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the dangers are doubled and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun doesn't shine It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
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Daily Goat #046: Sail On (cover) - Transmissions to Horace
Sail on down the road 'Bout a half a mile or so Well I tried to make you stay But now you're going It was plain to see That a small town boy like me Just wasn't your cup of tea That was wishful thinking I gave you my heart and I tried to make you happy You gave me nothing in return You know it ain't so hard to say "Would you please just go away"
You come to comfort me But I don't need your sympathy And the way you look at me Well it's condescending I feel my stomach churn And didn't you ever learn Not to tell somebody something if you don't mean it I gave you my heart and I tried to make you happy You gave me nothing in return You know it ain't so hard to say "Would you please just go away"
Sail on Sail on Sail on
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Daily Goat #045: Ghosts - Hail and Farewell, Gothenburg (Live @ Covent Garden Rough Trade 03-23-1996)
I went down the road today Just in the old way And a black dog hobbled past me His tags jangled on his collar It made me wish I was dead It made me wish I was dead
And a familiar sun on me Just like it would always be Rocky soil, dry land I knew it all like the back of my hand It made me wish I was dead It made me wish I was dead
Terrific view from here Sky's clear Sun's high I let things lie And I know what is and isn't mine And it was good to get back to the sunshine But five years is a long time And I spent five years in Sweden dying for you I spent five years in Sweden dying for you
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Daily Goat #044: New Star Song - Beautiful Rat Sunset
"It's actually based on genuine experience, except for the 'you' being addressed in the song -- there was no 'you', right. But I really did spend, uh, a good fourteen hours up in, uh, far northern California and, uh, this is about that afternoon where I watched all four movies at a four-plex, and none of them were any good." - John Darnielle
I hung pictures of you from every lamp post in town As the humidity climbed into numbers I don't care to repeat The air was heavy and the sky was alive And the Pacific Starlight train wasn't due in 'til 11:45
I thought about how cold you must be I thought about things I thought that I'd soon be forgetting I thought of you up in Canada as the lightning storms lit up All downtown Redding
There were teenagers in mini-trucks coming around every corner You could taste the adrenaline coming out through their skin I came to the well-lit doorway of a sheet music store I saw my face in the glass, sat down in the doorway and I settled in
I thought about how cold you must be I thought about things I thought that I'd soon be forgetting I thought of you up in Canada as the lightning storms lit up All downtown Redding
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