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Track #6 on The Mountain Goats‘ ninth studio album The Sunset Tree.
Darnielle has described “Dinu Lapatti’s Bones” as “a love song for an old friend,” a girlfriend with whom he spent turbulent summer doing hard drugs. (The Annotated Mountain Goats)
The titular Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical...
We stank of hair dye and ammonia
We sealed ourselves away from view
You were looking at the void and seldom blinking
The best that I could do
Was to train my eyes on you
We scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface
Scraped our fingers bloody on the stones
And built a little house that we could live in
Out of Dinu Lipatti's bones
We kept our friends at bay all summer long
Treated the days as though they'd kill us if they could
Wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets
To keep wintertime at bay
But December showed up anyway
There was no money; it was money that you wanted
I went downtown, sold off most of what I owned
And we raised a tower to broadcast all our dark dreams
From Dinu Lipatti's bones
Dinu Lipatti’s Bones was written by John Darnielle.
Dinu Lipatti’s Bones was produced by John Vanderslice.
The Mountain Goats released Dinu Lipatti’s Bones on Tue Apr 26 2005.