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In Corolla
GetLonelyFrontCover

Album

 Get Lonely

Released

 2006

Artist

the Mountain Goats

Length

4:05

Previous Track

"Cobra Tattoo"

In Corolla is the 12th and final song on the album Get Lonely.

Lyrics[]

The day I turned my back on all you people
I felt an itching in my thumbs
Salt air like a broadcast from the distant dark beyond
When my transformation comes

I went down to the warm warm water
Saw a pelican fly past
Waved once at the highway and then left all that behind me
I went wading through the grass

And no one was gonna come and get me
There wasn't anybody gonna know
Even though I leave a trail of burned things in my wake
Every single place I go

And it was cool and it was quiet
In the humid marsh down there
I let my head sink down beneath the brackish water
Felt it gumming up my hair

The sun was sinking into the Atlantic
The last time that I turned my back on you
I tried to summon up a little prayer as I went under 
It was the best that I could do

And I said let them all fare better than your servant
The reeds all pricking at my skin
Here's hoping they have better luck than I had down here with them
All that water rushing in

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

  • "But there are a few songs where the narrator is for sure someone in a sort of elevated depression: 'In the Hidden Places,' 'In Corolla,' 'Wild Sage.' For sure, the speakers in those three are out on the lonely edges of being able to relate to people, of being able to hold it together." -- Florida Times-Union interview

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