Going to Lebanon 2

Going to Lebanon 2
Album	Songs for Pierre Chuvin
Released	April 10, 2020
Length	2:26
Previous Track	"Their Gods Do Not Have Surgeons"
Next Track	"Exegetic Chains"

Original lyric sheet for "Going to Lebanon 2," courtesy of Reddit.

Going to Lebanon 2 is the ninth song on Songs for Pierre Chuvin.

Lyrics

We came down to the shore
Always some desperate people there
Anywhere people congregate for pleasure
They'll go hunting for treasure
Come one, come all, fortune-seeking brothers
Pick up the faint, faint scent
Of the faith of our fathers
Their names were known once to me
I hear them sometimes on the song of the sea

Take note of what will be gone
In the blink of an eye
The blue, blue water
The bone-white sky

You can set your watch by these guys
We will be high on the highway
Before they've even opened their eyes
Picture them scouring the sanctuary
Looking for gold
It never gets old

But there is no gold and there is no silver
And the South takes what the North delivers
Reverse the circuit sometimes
Every couple seasons
Remember our grandfathers
Whenever we need a reason

Take note of what will be gone
In the blink of an eye
The blue, blue water
The bone-white sky, yeah

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "Biting lines from Pavement and sending this one out to a guy who looked like me writing “Going to Lebanon” in the margins of his Catullus & Propertius notes at Scripps" -- Instagram

Things Referenced in this Song

• "The south takes what the North delivers" is a line from "Unfair" by Pavement.
• Going to Lebanon appeared on the Mountain Goats' 1994 debut studio album, Zopilote Machine.