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
The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats
Track #9 on The Mountain Goats‘ twelfth full-length album All Hail West Texas.
Its two characters are reminiscent of the Alpha couple that John Darnielle frequently wrote about (see for example “Alpha Incipiens” or Tallahassee). The narrator here, however, is more mature and aware of their situatio...
[Verse 1]
We took a weekend, drove to Provo
The snow was white and fluffy
A weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with us
The gray sky was vast and real cryptic above me
[Refrain]
I wanted you
To love me like you used to do
[Verse 2]
We took two weeks in the Bahamas
Went out dancing every night
Tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things
Most of the time I guess I felt alright
[Refrain]
But I wanted you
To love me like you used to do
[Chorus 1]
But you cannot run
And you cannot hide
From the wreck we've made of our house
From the mess inside
[Verse 3]
We went down to New Orleans
One weekend in the spring
Looked hard for what we'd lost
It was painful to admit it but we couldn't find a thing
[Refrain]
I wanted you
To love me like you used to do
[Verse 4]
We went to New York City in September
Took the train out of Manhattan to the Grand Army stop
Found that bench we'd sat together on a thousand years ago
When I felt such love for you I thought my heart was gonna pop
[Refrain]
I wanted you
To love me like you used to do
[Chorus 2]
But I cannot run
And I can't hide
From the wreck we've made of our house
From the mess inside
The Mess Inside was written by John Darnielle.
The Mess Inside was produced by John Darnielle.
The Mountain Goats released The Mess Inside on Tue Feb 19 2002.
John Darnielle before playing this song at Park West, in Chicago, IL on October 13, 2008:
“This is a song about how you may find yourself in a position where you remember that the love you once had with a person was so wonderful, it was so good, that it seems worth preserving. But you have had that...