Pez Dorado (The Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 3)

Echoes from a nursery rhyme
Hide in plain sight all this time
Here you come splashing in your summer clothes
You and your pale pink toes

Just there where the shadow falls
There we follow one and all
Can't resist the creeping dark
Ready to make our mark

Little red fish beneath the surface of the water
Testing the break point in case we get lucky
Ancient blood is patient blood
We were here before the flood
Waiting for our time to shine
Sparks in a silver mine

Shorebirds deal death all day long
We are weak but they are strong
Lose some friends along the way
Then in you come one day

Little red fish beneath the surface of the water
Hungry for you, senses sharpened by the hunger
Testing the break point in case we get lucky

Take your time, we've got all day
Days beyond that, come what may
If you get home tell all your friends
The spawning tide never ends

Say what you felt when you found us here
Here where the waters run crystal clear
One summer day in your summer clothes
The day you saw several ghosts

Little red fish beneath the surface of the water
Scales in the sun, stars in a shot glass
Testing the break point in case we get lucky
Testing the break point in case we get lucky (Just in case)

I'm uh, there's always a song every album, one or two, where Peter Hughes has a special feeling for it
And I treasure these songs, right, I'm always like, you know
Part of the fun dynamic of writing an album is like, thinking out, we're still gonna be able to chew this one up, or whatever
And the ones that I feel like Peter will connect to and feel like he actually dug a little and found, you know
Like, Peter has an ear for what I call fine feeling, you know, where it's like, it's not spelling it out, it's rendering something like a pastel or a watercolor
And then you sort of have to look at it long enough to get what's going on, I feel like that's sort of Peter's zone, right, this is my arena
Yeah, like the go-betweens, stuff that's not spelling it out, speaking plainly but not spelling it out plainly, right?
So, this is one of those, and plus Peter had this amazing experience with an aquarium once in Australia, where he went for a walk
Really tired and stood before some fish, and like, got really emotional and, you know, we've all been there, haha
And I was thinking, I was right again, you know, and uh, and so, so when he, when he got the demos
He wrote saying "I really liked this song" and I was pleased, and when we tracked it, I actually had my doubts about it because it's so even, I don't yell or anything
And I'm always worried about the ones where I don't raise my voice much, but then it came out so nice
I was like, ah, this is gonna be great live, you know, but then the plague happened, you know, and then we didn't get to go and play it live so that was really great
That's the end of that story, we're The Mountain Goats and this next song is called "Picture of My Dress"