I’m gonna get myself in fighting trim Scope out every angle of unfair advantage I’m gonna bribe the officials I’m gonna kill all the judges It’s gonna take you people years To recover from all of the damage
Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home
the Mountain Goats – Counting Songs For Bitter Children
one, two, two and a half Stick around here, don’t make me laugh Two and a half, three, four point five A new day’s dawning and my hours arrive
I don’t even know what to say about this song. It took me more than an hour to track down because, as far as I’m aware, this is the only recording in existence and it was uploaded by JD to sendspace four years ago and posted on the mountain-goats.com forum, where sharing is, uh, a complicated business. I think it’s a shame to let a gem like this disappear, though, so here it is.
There’s this feeling I sometimes get watching humans do the cool things that humans have been doing for thousands of years. It makes my chest expand and my heart thud and I love it. I love this.