The Mountain Goats - Source Decay

once a week
i make the drive
two hours east
to check the
austin post office box
and i take the detour
through our old neighborhood
see all the
chevy impallas
in their front yard up on bolcks

and i park
in a alley
and i read through the postcards you
continue to send
where as indirectly as you can
you ask what i remember
i like these tourture devices
from my old best friend

well i'll tell you what i know
like i swore i always would
i don't think it's going to do you
any good

i remember
the train headed south outta bangkok
down toward
the water

i always get a late start
when the suns going down
and the traffic's thinning out
and the glare is hard to take
i wish the west texas highway
was a mobius strip
i could ride it out forever
when i feel my heart break
i almost swear I hear it happen
is the clear and that hard
i come in off the highway
and i park in my front yard
i fall out of the car
like a hostage from a plane
think of you a while
start wishing it would rain

and i remember
the train headed south outta bangkok
down toward
the water

i come into the house
put on a pot of coffee
walk the floors a little while
i set your post card on the table
with all the others like it
i start sorting through the pile
i check the the pictcure
and the postmarks
and the captions and the stamps
for signs of any patern at all
when i come up empty handed
the feeling almost overwhelms me
i let a few of my
defenses fall
and i smile a bitter smile
not a pretty thing to see
think about a raileroad platform
back in nineteen eighty three

and i remember
the train headed south outa bangkok
down
down toward
the water

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mountain
• Goats
• Source
• Decay

[boiledhooker]

I love rainy days, ice cream and the mountain goats

[WhatsBliss]

this song reminds me of a person i met who fell in love with someone for 4 weeks and only found out that the feeling was mutual 15 minutes before they would separate and never meet again.

[erikthefool]

reminds me of Jeff and Cyrus

poor guys :(

[Linguaphonie]

best mountain goats song

[RAZORPREADATOR]

The dislike is from the person that slit there wrist over the inspiration and relateabilty of this songs crying family member when they saw the sreen.

Thumbs up for true story.

[AnonymousWesley]

" I wish the West Texas Highway was a Mobius Strip"

I love that...

[shotguncure]

I've been on that train from Bangkok. This song hits me hard.

[obermegalutschoar]

I can listen to this song over and over again and every time the pictures become more vivid and I almost think I know what the narrator is going through but there is always a secret that I do not quite get. This is definately my favorite song of the album.