It's All Here in Brownsville | |
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Album |
Full Force Galesburg |
Released |
1997 |
Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
Length |
1:53 |
Previous Track |
It's All Here in Brownsville is the 16th song on the album Full Force Galesburg.
Lyrics[]
Meanwhile out where nothing starts Out where the rail yard ends The sun up above us is trying to kill himself We were watching the skies again Why do we come down to Brownsville Year after year after year This was the question we never even posed Ringing like a siren in our ears Down on the Mexican border In the unfathomable heat With our shirts tied around our waists And the world at our feet We looked at one another's bodies Figured we looked all right Ready to die if we had to Watching the skies all night And I was sure my heart would break When the sun sank down into California I felt your breath on my neck, it was hot and good and pure And I wanted to warn you It's all coming apart again It's all coming apart again It's all coming apart again It's all coming apart again
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "I like border towns. I'm really fascinated with border towns. If you get uh, the uh, one sheet from Emperor Jones about the record, they talk a lot about Brownsville, Texas, which I've always been fascinated by. [Interviewer: which is on the border of. . .] Texas and Mexico. [Interviewer: Mexico.] It's not on the border, but it's near enough that it's a place you can hang out if you're waiting to hop borders for some reason or another. [Interviewer: Why the fascination with borders?] Uuuuh. Because I'm Roman Catholic, ya know? I mean, and it's all about borders. And again, everything's all about borders. Ya know, I mean you are the sum of what you won't do, sort of." -- 1997-03-02 KJHK radio interview (transcribed by Jon Nall)
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 2002-03-08 - WNUR Session - Evanston, IL
- 2008-11-09 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
- 2009-11-27 - 9:30 Club - Washington, D.C.
- 2017-05-28 - Trees - Dallas, TX
- 2021-08-25 - Space - Evanston, IL
- 2023-09-19 - Brooklyn Made - New York, NY
Videos of this Song[]
Full Force Galesburg |
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Track list: "New Britain" • "Snow Owl" • "West Country Dream" • "Masher" • "Chinese House Flowers" • "Ontario" • "Down Here" • "Twin Human Highway Flares" • "Weekend in Western Illinois" • "US Mill" • "Song for the Julian Calendar" • "Maize Stalk Drinking Blood" • "Evening in Stalingrad" • "Minnesota" • "Original Air-Blue Gown" • "It's All Here in Brownsville" |