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 Toolshed
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Album

 Heretic Pride

Released

 2008

Artist

the Mountain Goats

Length

2:18

Toolshed is a bonus track from the album Heretic Pride. It is bundled with the album when purchased from iTunes. It is also found on the Heretic Pride demos album, Songs for Vamsidasa Babaji.

Lyrics[]

Out by the tracks where the sunflowers grow high and fine
Three sets of tracks: Steve and Rochelle's and the last one's mine
Guy with a hat down in the weeds in a cardboard box
Secrets to keep, records to seal up
Kittens weighed down with rocks.
There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer

Back at the school everyone looks like the enemy
And we couldn't sleep and I had the voices inside of me
Steve and Rochelle and me down the well all semester long
Back to the tracks to try and make peace 
But the box was gone, was gone
There was a little toolshed where the sad man made us suffer

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

Things Referenced in this Song[]

  • "There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer" is one of the lyrics allegedly backmasked into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."[1]

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