the mountain goats lyrics

You bring something unreplaceable to each and every day
Or you used to, anyway

I hope the stars don't even come out tonight, I hope we both freeze to death

When I get off the wheel I'm going to stop
And make amends to everyone I've wounded
And when I wave my magic wand
Those few who've slipped the surly bonds
Will rise like salmon at the spawning

Who is that creature with the crazed look in his eyes?
Don't even question your senses, you can be sure that's me

When you speak it's those two who speak through you
Who'll speak for me?

And the rain came down on the windshield
I wished it would wash us both away
You had to open up your mouth, didn't you?
I knew what you were gonna say

I hide down in my corner, because I like my corner

The things that you've got coming will do things that you're afraid to
There is someone waiting out there with a mouthful of surprises

Be flexible, be unreplaceable
In a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable

Tell the crowd, tell the world
I want everyone to get high
Tell the press, tell the cameras
I want everyone to get high

Yeah, the house and the jewels, the Italian racecar
They don't make us feel better about who we are
I got termites in the framework, so do you

Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania

And I, I am a monster
I can't believe the thing I've done
I can't believe the thing I've done

If I ever want to drive myself insane
All I have to do is watch you breathing

The loneliest people in the whole wide world
Are the ones you're never going to see again

I drove up to Harvey Mudd and I played pinball
till I didn't want to kill anyone

Yeah sing for the damage we've done
And the worse things that we'll do

This song is for the people
Who tell their families that they're sorry
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

The summer crawled by indetectably
And then I saw you looking down to me

Mercy for the Diaz brothers!

And I've told you everything
Even the parts I'd meant to leave out

The summer will reveal itself to those whose hearts are true
And to the faithless few

It's so hard to get revenge
The human element drags you down

Calculate magnetic north
And turn the other way
Wait for the coming disaster
I could do this all day

But the best you've got is powerless against me
And all your little schemes break when they come crashing up against me

According to reliable sources
In thirty days I'm getting evicted

You can arm me to the teeth
You can't make me go to war

How did the monkey get there?

You're gonna have to learn how to read

The compasses I came into this world with
Never really worked so good