| Fault Lines | |
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Album |
All Hail West Texas |
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Released |
2002 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
2:37 |
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Previous Track |
"Jenny" |
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Next Track |
"Balance" |
Fault Lines is the fifth song on the album All Hail West Texas.
Lyrics[]
down here where the heat's so fine I'll drink to your health and you drink to mine as we try to make the money we scored out in Vegas hold out for a while we drink vodka from Russia we get our chocolates from Belgium we have our strawberries flown in from England. yeah but none of the money we spend seems to do us much good in the end. I've got a cracked engine block, both of us do. yeah the house and the jewels, the Italian race car they don't make us feel better about who we are. I've got termites in the framework, so do you. down here where the watermelon grows so sweet where I worship the ground underneath of your feet, we are experts in the art of frivolous spending. and it's gone on like this, for 3 years I guess and we're drunk all the time and our lives are a mess. and the deathless love we swore to protect with our bodies is stumbling across its bleak ending. but none of the rage in our eyes seems to finish it off where it lies. I got sugar in the fuel lines, both of us do. yeah the fights and the lies that we both love to tell fail to send our love to its reward down in hell I got pudding for a backbone, so do you! la la la la. hey hey!
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- While some fans assume this is an Alpha Couple song, on episode 5 of I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, John said that this is not an Alpha Couple song and that the narrator is too self-aware to be an Alpha song narrator.
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 2001-07-19 - Capitol Theater - Olympia, WA
- 2002-03-07 - Independent Media Center - Urbana, IL
- 2002-03-10 - The Green Room - Iowa City, IA
- 2002-03-11 - The Maintenance Shop - Ames, IA
- 2012-04-19 - Benefit to Defeat Amendment One - Motorco - Durham, NC
- 2012-06-22 - Rio Theater - Vancouver, British Columbia
- 2019-11-20 - Button Factory - Dublin, Ireland
- 2021-09-09 - City Winery - New York, NY
- 2023-07-10 - The Lyric - Oxford, MS
- 2023-09-19 - Brooklyn Made - New York, NY
| All Hail West Texas |
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Track list: "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" • "Fall of the Star High School Running Back" • "Color in Your Cheeks" • "Jenny" • "Fault Lines" • "Balance" • "Pink and Blue" • "Riches and Wonders" • "The Mess Inside" • "Jeff Davis County Blues" • "Distant Stations" • "Blues in Dallas" • "Source Decay" • "Absolute Lithops Effect" |