Pure Crystal

Pure Crystal is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats. It was originally to be released on Nothing for Juice, but it did not make the final cut. A version of it was reportedly posted on the Last Plane to Jakarta forums by John Darnielle with "Flower Song" for download sometime before 2011.

Lyrics

The cactus cuttings took root
The tea you brought me smacked of passion fruit
In a room where the heat bled in through the wall
I lay breathing in the design of it all
What is there to regret
Your mouth was wet
And your shoulders rolled under mine

I saw the glaze come over your eyes
I felt my blood pumping and the heat rise
I've seen pretty eyes before, but never like those
And your body opened like a new rose
What more is there to say
The air gave way
I was melting and sweltering under you

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

Internet releases by John Darnielle

Exclusive: "Acceptable Damages Sutra" • "All Devils Here Now" • "Ballad of the Errant Scallop" • "The Big Unit" • "Brandy Let's Go" • "Bride" • "Counting Song for Bitter Children" • "Cut Off Their Thumbs #1" • "Deserters" • "Down Here Where the Bullet Bills Are" • "Extreme South #1" • "Flower Song" • "For the Krishnacore Bands" • "From TG&Y" • "Going Back to California" • "Going Invisible" • "Hye Kye" • "New Mountain Goats Tape Song" • "New World Emerging Blues" • "Pure Crystal" • "Short Song for Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi" • "Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love" • "Sign of the Crow 2" • "Song for Sasha Banks" • "There Is Power in a Union" • "Thucydides II-58" • "Tyler Lambert's Grave"• "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" • "You and Me and a High Balcony" Released elsewhere: "Alibi • "Daniel 12:8 (first)" • "Exegetic Chains" • "For the Snakes" • "If You See Light" • "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "Michael Myers Resplendent" • "No Children" • "Ox Baker Triumphant" • "Surrounded" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "Wait for You"