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“I’m always trying to figure out what to say about this god damn song. Part of me wants to say look, it’s about revenge, but as soon as I say that… no, that’s not quite it. Part of me wants to say it’s about the satisfaction of not needing revenge… and i say no, that’s some new age stuff. I think it’s a song about the moment in your quest for revenge when you learn to embrace the futility of it. The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you’re headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you’re going to head that way a while longer cause that’s just the kind of person you are.”

— John Darnielle

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John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life. —John Hodgman, 2012

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Ride the sentimental rodeo Down to where the shadows grow

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we need a team of psychologists dedicated to figuring out the emotion that Tollund Man makes you feel because it’s literally like nothing else

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move aside Jenny and the Alpha Couple… my favorite reoccurring Mountain Goats character is Cold Glass Of Water

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And thick as molasses ice cold vodka eases in

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Their time together was sweet and warm, and was like nothing else in the world. May their names, which history has seen fit to hide in the warm folds of its endless memory, be sung forever in the wordless movement of young trees in the wind. Let the love they cultivated like delicate juniper seedlings go on growing forever, rooted in its own self-sustaining riches. May the hours they gave one another wash gently over our cold world and heal its terrible sickness. May they rest in the limitless grace and peace that is their love's one true reward.

(original front liner notes of the coroner’s gambit by john darnielle, 2000)

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remember your ABCs (Always Be thinking about why the alpha couple are Communists)

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Idk guys… I’ve just been having dreams of sweet pastry and purified butter… maybe I’m just hungry

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Not gonna stand here on a sound stage, tethered to a crucifix

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something i keep experiencing

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jenny was a warrior, jenny was a thief

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i woke up afraid of my own shadow, like genuinely afraid

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sketching pictures all day long of stranger things than these

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and in situations like these, it's sometimes useful to think of life as one long continuous evening, that never turns into night.

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FALL/WINTER 2025 TOUR

Presale tomorrow (05/14) at 10 am local time, presale code is MOUNTAINGOATS2025

FALL (SEPT-OCT)

09/17 - Atlanta GA

09/18 - Ponte Vedra Beach FL

09/19 - Isle of Palms SC

09/20 - Asheville NC

09/22 - Louisville KY

09/26 - Cleveland OH

09/27 - Chicago IL

09/28 - Peoria IL

09/29 - Detroit MI

10/01 - Huntington WV

WINTER (NOV-DEC)

11/29 - Salt Lake City UT

11/30 - Bozeman MT

12/01 - Missoula MT

12/03 + 12/04 - Seattle WA

12/05 - Spokane WA

12/06 - Boise ID

12/08 + 12/09 - Portland OR

12/10 - San Francisco CA

12/12 - Los Angeles CA