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Track #8 from The Mountain Goats‘ eleventh studio album Heretic Pride.
For the 2008 Mountain Goats album “Heretic Pride”, Mountain Goats songwriter John Darnielle wrote descriptions of each song on the album for Jeff to illustrate.
Transcription: “Lovecraft in Brooklyn / American horror icon H. P....
[Verse 1]
It's gonna be too hot to breathe today
But everybody is out here on the streets
Somebody's opened up a fire hydrant
Cold water rushing out in sheets
Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey
Asks me for a cigarette
Companionship is where you find it
So I take what I can get
[Chorus 1]
Hubcaps on the cars like fun house mirrors
Stick to the shadows when I can
Lovecraft in Brooklyn
[Verse 2]
When the sun goes down, the armies of the voiceless
Several hundred-thousand strong
Come out without their bandages
Their voices raised in song
And when the street lights sputter out
They make this awful sizzling sound
I cast my gaze toward the pavement
Too many blood stains on the ground
[Chorus 2]
Rhode Island drops into the ocean
No place to call home anymore
Lovecraft in Brooklyn
[Bridge]
Head outside most everyday
To try to keep the wolves away
Imagine nice things I might say
If company should come
[Verse 3]
Woke up afraid of my own shadow
Like, genuinely afraid
Headed for the pawnshop
To buy myself a switchblade
Someday something's coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It'll store our brains in Mason jars
[Chorus 3]
And then the girl behind the counter
She asks me how I feel today
I feel like Lovecraft in Brooklyn
[Outro]
Yeah
Lovecraft in Brooklyn was written by John Darnielle.
Lovecraft in Brooklyn was produced by John Vanderslice & Scott Solter.
The Mountain Goats released Lovecraft in Brooklyn on Sat Jan 19 2008.
John Darnielle, before playing this song at The Black Cat in Washington, DC on March 22, 2008:
Once again, to express my affection for you, I’d like to play this song about a fellow who is really so filled with anger and rage that the mere sight of other human beings makes him feel even more angry....