The Mountain Goats - Bleed Out

First Blood

Mail-ordered body armor
Map to the Blue Bucket Mine
Guy who had a place down by the lakeside
Changing water to wine

Devastating schematics
Rough drafts of the 23rd Psalm
Paul Kersey never left his apartment
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

Armor-piercing Black Talons
From the first production run
Nobody's seen them in the wild
Since 1991

Out in the cul-de-sacs at midnight
Where the candy for the cannons comes from
I heard Buford Pusser was dirty
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

Shall we rise to the occasion
Or go to sleep for good in the trenches?
Dug in beneath a brilliant blue sky
Helmets hanging high in the branches

Empty vessels by the dozens
Diamonds in the sun
We worship nothing in the foxholes
John Rambo never went to Vietnam

John Rambo never went to Vietnam



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

  1. Training Montage
  2. Mark on You
  3. Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome
  4. Extraction Point
  5. Bones Don't Rust
  6. First Blood
  7. Make You Suffer
  8. Guys on Every Corner
  9. Hostages
  10. Need More Bandages

All Album Tracks: Bleed Out >

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

All Albums of The Mountain Goats >

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