The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
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Track #2 on The Mountain Goats‘ eighth full-length studio album We Shall All Be Healed from 2004.
Generally considered one of the most popular songs from the album (the Mountain Goats' first studio album with a full band arrangement and cleaner sound due to the production of John Vanderslice &...
[Verse 1]
Holt Boulevard
Between Garey and White
Hooked up with some friends at the Travelodge
Set ourselves up for the night
Carpenter ants in the dresser
Flies in the screen
It will be too late by the time we learn
What these cryptic symbols mean
[Chorus]
And I dreamt of a house
Haunted by all you tweakers with your hands out
And the headstones climbed up the hills
And the headstones climbed up the hills
[Verse 2]
Send somebody out for soda
Comb through the carpet for clues
Reflective tape on our sweatpants
Big holes in our shoes
Every couple minutes
Someone says he can't stand it anymore
Laugh lines on our faces
Scale maps of the ocean floor
[Chorus]
And I dreamt of a camera
Pointing out from inside the television
And the aperture yawning and blinking
And the headstones climbed up the hills
[Bridge]
If anybody comes to see me
Tell 'em they just missed me by a minute
If anybody comes into our room while we're asleep
I hope they incinerate everybody in it
[Chorus]
And I dreamt of a factory
Where they manufactured what I needed
Using shiny new machines
And the headstones climbed up the hills
Palmcorder Yajna was written by John Darnielle.
Palmcorder Yajna was produced by Scott Solter & John Vanderslice.
The Mountain Goats released Palmcorder Yajna on Mon Dec 08 2003.
John Darnielle, before playing this song at The Independent in San Francisco, CA on March 1, 2008:
This is a song about how, when sometimes, sometimes you find it necessary to rob the safe in the restaurant where you work. And they, and it’s funny, because your friends who, like, have good jobs, sa...