Song for Black Sabbath's Second North American Tour is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats.
Lyrics[]
Hang my hammer on a nail Never see it again Set sail for the cosmos High above the world with its beaten-down men Not long for this world Have to be reminded To stay away from windows Not to leave important things behind All gone All gone With the dawn And then I'm in an airplane heading west Over the ocean Unsteady on my feet again A body in motion So far from the slaughterhouse New creatures with new hearts Landing at LaGuardia Tearing up the charts All gone All gone With the dawn
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "So what people do, like, people maybe garden as a pastime, you know, or maybe play whist, I don't know. I write songs about Ozzy Osbourne as a pastime. If I don't, if I don't know what else to do, I can always think about Ozzy, right. Ozzy is sort of a talisman for me. In part it's because Ozzy was supposed to spend most of his life in jails or institutions and die young, but that's not actually what happened to Ozzy, sort of through a combination of luck and charisma, he became a large celebrity, but he actually, uh, he worked in a slaughterhouse briefly, and, and yeah, he was a lucky and blessed guy." -- 2018-09-14 - Washington's - Fort Collins, CO
Things Referenced in this Song[]
- LaGuardia Airport is an airport in Queens, New York City.
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 2014-01-19 - Rock for Roe at the Pinhook - Durham, NC
- 2014-02-28 - Rangos Ballroom - Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
- 2014-04-15 - Pearl Street Ballroom - Northampton, MA
- 2014-04-16 - Somerville Theatre - Somerville, MA
- 2014-04-17 - Club Helsinki - Hudson, NY
- 2014-04-19 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
- 2014-04-20 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
- 2014-04-21 - Scope Productions Presents First United Methodist Church - Iowa City, IA
- 2014-05-02 - Kresge Recital Hall - Knox College - Galesburg, IL
- 2014-06-10 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA
- 2015-04-19 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
- 2015-05-06 - Sirius XMU Session - New York, NY
- 2018-05-29 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
- 2018-05-30 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL
- 2018-09-14 - Washington's - Fort Collins, CO
- 2019-09-06 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC