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Zopilote Machine |
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Released |
1994 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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2:09 |
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Alpha in Tauris is the 17th song on the album Zopilote Machine.
Lyrics[]
My hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to your jaw (2x) It's real neat, the moment's sweet but it's all wrong And we're pictures of decency when we wave goodbye outside We're pictures of decency when we wave goodbye outside Yeah, I’m the model of composure out there But you oughta see me shaking later on My brain gets flooded six hours later My brain gets flooded over six hours later Rivers run with pictures of you as I stare up at the blood red moon Lying out front on the lawn, hey
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "This song isn't old enough to drink yet... but it's old enough to vote!" -- 2015-05-26 - Gothic Theatre - Denver, CO
- "It's a song about sleeping with somebody who's married" -- 2016-04-16 - Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center - York, PA
Things Referenced in this Song[]
- Title is a reference to the Euripides play "Iphigenia in Tauris."
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 1997-06-21 - Tokyo Rose - Charlottesville, VA
- 1998-02-07 - Vinyl Fever - Tallahassee, FL
- 1998-04-04 - Duke Coffeehouse - Durham, NC
- 2003-04-04 - Macrock Festival - Court Square Theatre - Harrisonburg, VA
- 2003-09-27 - Mercury - Austin, TX
- 2014-04-20 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
- 2015-05-26 - Gothic Theatre - Denver, CO
- 2015-05-31 - Amoeba Records - San Francisco, CA
- 2016-04-16 - Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center - York, PA
- 2017-05-25 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL
- 2017-10-12 - The Haunt - Brighton, England
- 2017-11-08 - Calvin Theatre - Northampton, MA
- 2017-11-11 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
- 2017-11-15 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
- 2017-11-18 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
- 2021-09-08 - City Winery - New York, NY
- 2021-10-18 - The Fillmore Silver Spring - Silver Spring, MD
- 2022-07-14 - Minglewood Hall - Memphis, TN
- 2022-08-19 - Brooklyn Arts Center - Wilmington, NC
- 2022-08-31 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
- 2022-09-02 - Wilbur Theatre - Boston, MA
| Zopilote Machine |
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Track list: "Alpha Incipiens" • "Azo Tle Nelli in Tlalticpac?" • "Alpha Sun Hat" • "The Black Ice Cream Song" • "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song" • "We Have Seen the Enemy" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #7" • "Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums" • "Orange Ball of Love" • "Orange Ball of Hate" • "Bad Priestess" • "Going to Bristol" • "Young Caesar 2000" • "Going to Lebanon" • "Grendel's Mother" • "Song for Tura Satana" • "Alpha in Tauris" • "Going to Georgia" • "Quetzalcoatl is Born" |
| The "Alpha" Series |
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Track list: "Alpha Aquae" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Alpha Incipiens" • "Alpha Negative" • "Alpha Omega" • "Alpha Rats Nest" • "Alpha Sun Hat" • "Alpha in Tauris" • "Alphabetizing" • "Letter from a Motel" • "One Winter at Point Alpha Privative" • "Spilling Toward Alpha" • "Fit Alpha Vi" • "Alpha Compunction" • "Going to Dade County" • "Tallahassee" • "First Few Desperate Hours" • "Southwood Plantation Road" • "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" • "The House That Dripped Blood" • "Idylls of the Kings" • "No Children" • "See America Right" • "Peacocks" • "International Small Arms Traffic Blues" • "Have to Explode" • "Old College Try" • "Oceanographer's Choice" • "Ethiopians" • "Alpha Chum Gatherer" • "New Chevrolet in Flames" • "Design Your Own Container Garden" • "Going to Federal Prison" • "Orange Ball of Hate" |