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“Family Happiness” is the tenth track off of the Mountain Goats' 2000 album The Coroner’s Gambit.
The song is about a man taken into the woods of Canada by a friend to do some unspecified deed. The narrator, outraged at the friend’s request, refuses to do the deed, and violently gets his revenge on...
[Verse 1]
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 to figure these things out, or maybe it's supposed to be self-evident
But I've gone feral, and I don't speak the language anymore
We're heading deep into the forest, I've got the pedal to the floor
The engine shudders like a dying man
When you reach out to grab my hand
[Chorus]
You can bring out all your weapons
You can't make me go to war
[Verse 2]
Long winding Canadian highways; innumerable Evergreens
Weather forecast on the AM radio says we'll be expecting highs in the low 'teens
While I mouth my silent curses at you, I can see my breath
I hope the stars don't even come out tonight, I hope we both freeze to death
Look at the person I've turned into, tell me, how do you like him now?
No standards of any kind to break, no creeds to disavow
I am right here where you want me
Do what you brought me out here for
[Chorus]
You can arm me to the teeth
You can't make me go to war!
Family Happiness was written by John Darnielle.
Family Happiness was produced by John Darnielle.
The Mountain Goats released Family Happiness on Tue Oct 17 2000.
“This is a song about, uh, as several of my songs are, about a couple of people in a car. They have a, they have a third sort of person in the car, but it’s more a ghostly sort of energy force, right, so it’s not actually a person, but it’s a sort of person they’ve conspired to make who sits behind...