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1992 |
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The Water Song is the 14th song on The Mountain Goats' second cassette, The Hound Chronicles. It appears as the tenth song on the 2022 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5.
Lyrics[]
Water came springing out the side of the wall And I guess the same thing will happen to us all We don't know how to explain what I mean I mean to say it's kind of hard to explain now Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me Water came down through the cracks in the ceiling But this time the water had a different feeling It's the sort of feeling that is hard to explain So, let me put it to you in a different way now Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me You're the salesman. I'm the buyer You're the tractor. I am the tire I'm the glass. You're the water that fills me I hear them coming now Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me now Let them kill me. Yeah! Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me Let them kill me
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "And then in the modern version it now devolves into a ten-minute jam over the G" -- 2022-08-25 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 1994-08-18 - Under ACME - New York, NY
- 1995-04-20 - Magasin 4 - Brussels, Belgium
- 2001-04-21 - The Olde Club - Swarthmore, PA
- 2009-06-14 - Zoop II - Farm Sanctuary - Watkins Glen, NY
- 2019-05-13 - Buskirk-Chumley Theater - Bloomington, IN
- 2019-08-16 - Music in the Mill - Hickory, NC
- 2019-12-07 - The Haw River Ballroom - Graham, NC
- 2022-05-19 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL
- 2022-08-25 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
- 2022-11-17 - Albert Hall - Manchester, England
- 2023-10-05 - August Hall - San Francisco, CA
- 2024-12-10 - Antone's - Austin, TX
Videos of this Song[]
| The Hound Chronicles |
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Side One: "The Garden Song" • "Going to Wisconsin" • "Spilling Toward Alpha" • "Alpha Negative" • "Torch Song" • "שקט (Be Quiet)" • "The Cow Song" • "(Untitled)" • "Going to Chino" |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5 |
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| Track list: "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "First Blood" • "Mark On You" • "Minnesota" • "Make You Suffer" • "Choked Out" • "Tidal Wave" • "Torch Song" • "Tulsa Imperative" • "The Water Song" • "The Window Song" • "Abandoned Flesh" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Guys on Every Corner" • "Training Montage" • "Extraction Point" • "Damn These Vampires" • "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" • "Bleed Out" |