J. Robbins on this song: I can’t remember if Bill wrote the music for “Mule/Stall” or not. I’m going to say maybe he did or maybe he and I wrote it, but really I don’t remember much about it. The lyric from it came from that blues line about, “There’s another mule kicking in your stall.”
You wake up slow
Summarily choke
With a hex for an exit line
Stuck in your throat
Slurring and slack
Blurring to black
Pull your head off the lonesome tracks
Try on your best sideshow smile
Now float downstream
Thoroughly soaked
With blessings for everyone
Sinking your boat
Hacking up chunks
Of Halloween tack
In the moment before impact
Try on your best sideshow smile
A bitter time is never more than what you paid in full to put on call
What's kicking in your stall?
Time to get those x's off your eyes
Better wipe those x's off your eyes
Mule/Stall was written by Jawbox.
Mule/Stall was produced by Jawbox & John Agnello.
Jawbox released Mule/Stall on Tue Jul 02 1996.