The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here

Before I Got There

The acrid smell of burning branches
The relics all in ruin
Broken blades atop the altar
Cheap substitutions
And the tapestry above
Torn down, trampled, then rehung
Now illegible forever
An oracle with no tongue

All of this
All of this
All of this before I got there

And in a pit behind the altar
The bodies of the fallen
Heavy tracks up to the lip
Just to prove that they were crawling
Faces turned toward the sky
That they would never see again

Victims of the fallout
I have failed you, sweet, young men

All of this
All of this
All of this before I got there



Credits
Writer(s): John S Darnielle
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Other Album Tracks

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  3. Mobile
  4. Dark in Here
  5. Lizard Suit
  6. When a Powerful Animal Comes
  7. To the Headless Horseman
  8. The New Hydra Collection
  9. The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums
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Altri album

  1. Jenny from Thebes
  2. Murder at the 18th St. Garage
  3. Fresh Tattoo
  4. Clean Slate
  5. The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5
  6. Bleed Out
  7. Mark on You
  8. Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome
  9. Training Montage
  10. The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 And 4

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