Lonesome Surprise

Lonesome Surprise
Album	Nine Black Poppies
Released	1995
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:23
Previous Track	"Stars Fell on Alabama"

Lonesome Surprise is the ninth song on the Nine Black Poppies EP. It is a cover of a song by the band Refrigerator, and was recorded live during a 1995 VPRO Radio session. The lead singer of Refrigerator, Allen Callaci, sings the song with John Darnielle and Rachel Ware via telephone from the library at which he worked.

Lyrics

Doctor, doctor
Can you help me please
All these pills and problems
Keep piling down on me

Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise

I had a name
Had a place
Like the clothes I wear
The holes grow everywhere
'Til it's like having nothing at all

Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise

Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise

Walked out of my shower
Feeling more wet than baptized
Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise

Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise
Here's your lonesome surprise

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 1995-04-19 - VPRO Radio - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2012-05-08 - The Clarendon - Katoomba, Australia
• 2012-06-28 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA
• 2013-10-14 - Luxor - Cologne, Germany