My Mask

My Mask
Album	Election Year
Released	1985
Artist	The Congress
Length	2:04

My Mask the 31st and final song on Election Year by The Congress. Although the album is not available to listen to, this song is featured on the compilation A Sample of Anthropology Recording Artists, which is available for download on Wckr Spgt's website.

Lyrics

You spent Champagne Saturday on your knees
With your eyes on the clock and your head through wall
The sun came through the window sickly
And you didn't look up, you didn't flinch
Buy you a chainsaw for your birthday
All the wine you could ever drink
Lay you in a bed of cold steel
Cover your face with my fine white mask
You spent Champagne Saturday on your knees
But you'll never have to beg
Oh John Barleycorn, oh John Barleycorn
Old and young, thy praises sung
John Barleycorn

You spent Champagne Saturday on your knees
With your eyes on the clock and your head through the wall
The sun came through the window sickly
And you didn't look up, you didn't flinch
Buy you a chainsaw for your birthday
All the wine you could ever drink
Lay you in a bed of cold steel
Cover your face with my fine white mask
You spent Champagne Saturday on your knees
But you'll never have to beg
Oh John Barleycorn, oh John Barleycorn
Old and young, thy praises sung
John Barleycorn

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "This is something I wrote when I was 16... 'And your head through the wall' was a line specified by Mark [Givens] that I had to include in the lyric when he gave me the title "My Mask."...it was one of our better numbers." -- KALW interview, 11/17/2014

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• None known, although John Darnielle did recite (most of) the song's lyrics in a 2014 radio interview.