Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love

Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats. It was uploaded to YouTube and other social media channels on February 1, 2021.

Lyrics[]

Cross the street
each chance I get
Make sure my shoes get nice and wet
catch a ride
from a landscaping crew
got my fake beard on
they can see right through

Of course they can
A dedicated bounty hunter always gets his man 

Shot, repeatedly, at close range, in the chest
by your love, by your love, by your love

Ghost town strip mall, 
no cameras in sight
in a bin behind the cell phone store
I settle in for the night
sleep in shifts
beneath the boxes and the trash
three days since I ran
completely out of cash
 
I won't last long
someday kids by campfires may remember me in song
 
Shot, repeatedly, at close range, in the chest
by your love, by your love, by your love

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

honestly I don't think I'm ever going to do anything with this one but I like the chorus line too much to not share it with y'all. I think you have to click the image to get the full screenshot, which contains the opening couplet (of this, the second verse), enjoy

obv I usually title a song like this sideways, something like "Jesse James Agonistes" or something, but this one was instead gonna be called "Shot, Repeatedly," etc

Dug up the chords so y’all could hear the draft because people were amused by it, hope you enjoy

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

2021-09-09 - City Winery - New York, NY

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"