Song for God is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats. It was written for All Hail West Texas but did not make the album. An mp3 of it (and one other outtake from the album, "Warm Lonely Planet") is available for free download at themountaingoats.net.
Lyrics[]
Neighbor kids running across the front yard this evening Sun going down, wind gathering strength The state I live in is the largest of its kind It takes two days or better to walk across its length If you try to come and find me, I will know you're coming There's an old fallout shelter I can hide in I won't even be able to hear their hoofbeats When the horsemen ride in Another mild winter, time seems to stand still Sky swallows up the city like a tent Young breezes' razor patterns in the dust No way of saying what they're supposed to represent I have come to where I've come to now Always abiding in you If you try to find me now I'll be invisible to everything when The horsemen come riding on through
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "'Song For God' was cut largely because while the lyric clearly reads "it takes two days or better to drive across its length," the singer of the recording in question has inexplicably chosen to modify that to read "it takes two days or better to walk across its length." I challenge anyone foolhardy enough to try it to see whether Texas can in fact be walked in two days. I would hazard to guess that it can't be done." -- themountaingoats.net