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Pet Politics
Believer

Album

The Believer 2005 CD

Released

2005

Artist

the Mountain Goats

Length

3:21

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Pet Politics is a song by Silver Jews from their 1996 album The Natural Bridge. A version by the Mountain Goats was released as the fifth song on The Believer 2005 CD compilation.

Lyrics[]

Guard my bed
While the rain turns the ditches to mirrors
Buy a vase of carnations from central Ohio
Where the looking machine can't hear us
Deep in the night we dream of positions
There's a line for the phone in the hall
And in the cold places where Spanish is spoken
Most wars end in the fall
You never know when your pet will go
Pet politics

Still wearing last night's mascara
Now that her pet was gone for sure
She was shivering so hard
It looked like there were two of her
I can see through the sleeve on her blouse
The mute plans of her architect lover
A tattoo of a boarded up house
An ink door that belonged to another
When the rain hits you, it hits you slow
Stitch after stitch
Stitch after stitch

Adam was not the first man
Though the Bible tells us so
There was one created before him
Whose name we do not know
He also lived in the garden
But he had no mouth or eyes
One day Adam came to kill him
And he died beneath these skies
I find it so amazing how
I go where I'm led
I go where I'm led
I go where I'm led
I go where I'm led

I suspect we could be losing now
Please guard my bed
Please guard my bed

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