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The Mountain Goats
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the land's opening up like a blanket,
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and the dandelions spread themselves thickly out
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along the fields, which are, evidently, endless;
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and we are hotly in love with one another.
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we've got an unquenchable thirst in our throats.
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we are, for some reason, all the time, bleeding,
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and we are friendless.
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and we love these dogs that roll on the lawns here in galesburg --
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because they seem to know something nobody else knows.
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it is written in the smiles on their faces,
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and it rings in their high young voices
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we are burning up all of our choices up here
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where the tall grass grows, up here in galesburg.
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the sky's opening up like an old wound,
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and the rain on our bodies is warm tonight
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and the ground underneath us shakes in the cracking thunder.
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we can taste fresh blood in our mouths again:
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there is no chance of getting enough of it,
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and we tally up all our possessions, we're going under.
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but we love these dogs that loll in the rain here in galesburg
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as the new season rocks them in its terrible arms.
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yeah they howl as though the world were ending,
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and we are watching the sky unwinding
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and some of our promises were binding up here where our dreams take form
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up here in galesburg.
the Mountain Goats - This Year (Official...
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