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Track #2 from The Mountain Goats‘ Nine Black Poppies EP released in 1995.
This is part of the “Going to…” series which comprises at least 46 songs written between 1991-2004.
Utrecht is both a province and provincial capital city in the Netherlands, located about 50 km southeast of Amsterdam. It is...
[Verse 1: John Darnielle]
In the morning I looked down
Through the third story window overlooking town
Across the water somewhere
You were sleeping over there
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
In the morning I looked down
Through the third story window overlooking town
And I saw you
And I knew you saw me too
[Chorus]
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
Going to Utrecht was written by John Darnielle.
Going to Utrecht was produced by John Darnielle.
The Mountain Goats released Going to Utrecht on Tue Oct 24 1995.
When performing in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 2017, John Darnielle prefaced the song by:
This song comes from a much earlier time in my career, and I was like, I tried playing it in soundcheck. I thought “Why, I don’t know my right wrist still has the needed amount of whatever it used to have, to...