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Track #4 from The Mountain Goats‘ eleventh studio album Heretic Pride.
‘Autoclave’ is a word of French origin that literally means ‘self-locking’. It typically refers to a steam pressure chamber used for sterilization, invented by Charles Cumberland in the late 19th century.
Autoclaves can be of b...
[Verse 1]
Hand me your hand, let me look in your eyes
As my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize
Maybe it's the heat in here, maybe it's the pressure
You ought to head for the exits, the sooner the better
[Chorus 1]
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make my home her home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
[Verse 2]
When I try to open up to you I get completely lost
Houses swallowed by the earth, windows thick with frost
And I reach deep down within, but the pathways twist and turn
And there's no light anywhere, and nothing left to burn
[Chorus 2]
And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
[Verse 3]
I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
[Chorus 1]
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam
And no one in her right mind would make her home my home
My heart's an autoclave
My heart's an autoclave
Autoclave was written by John Darnielle.
Autoclave was produced by John Vanderslice & Scott Solter.
The Mountain Goats released Autoclave on Tue Feb 19 2008.
John Darnielle, before playing this song at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, OR on February 25, 2008:
[You may] Look out on your friends, who are your friends, and you may say about them to yourself, whether or not they’re listening; ‘I’d kill them as soon as look at them again. I can’t live anothe...