Name: The Mountain Goats "Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds" by MergeRecords
Duration: 4 min 18 s
Description: From the album Goths, out May 19, 2017 on Merge Records.

This is one of my favorite songs but I made a version of it where I'm singing instead

Jeff Rosenstock - Nearly Midnight, Honolulu (Neko Case Cover)

tell me how

jumping wildly atop my bed, 
i cross my fingers and move ahead. 
hope divides a shaking force. 
with oven mitts, can't shut that door. 

pigeon shit on a marble shrine, 
hope glowing or a well-lit lie? 
pigeon shit on a marble shrine, 
in a squint, looks like no. 5 

i wanna feel sorted 
i wanna feel sorted 
i gotta quit something 
i wanna feel sorted 

(ouroboros) 

like the particles that you are made of 
like the memories that you keep trace of 
like the animal that we have caged up 
like the body you'll never escape from 
like the sciences behind our make-up 
like the temple that you are the base of 
like the spectrum that we are shade of 
like an energy you cannot break up 

organize organize keep it sorted 
(i wanna feel sorted) 
organize organize keep it sorted 
(i wanna feel sorted) 

organize organize keep it sorted 
exercise exercise keep it sorted 
wait in line wait in line fill the forms in 
be on time be on time bring your own pen 
diet right diet right no more chocolate 
no white lies no white lies do the right thing 
go outside go outside like a good kid 
you'll be fine you'll be fine keep it sorted 

you'll be fine you'll be fine keep it sorted 
you'll be fine you'll be fine keep it sorted 
you'll be fine you'll be fine keep it sorted 
you'll be fine you'll be fine keep it sorted 

i wanna feel sorted 
i wanna feel sorted 
i gotta quit something

Ouroboros

these soft hands have a grip 
of where the body they're a part of's going, 
if it gets up in the morning. 
papa's jeans never fit, 
handed down his looks and nervous ticks, 
but what about callouses? 
he deserves each wink of sleep - white canvas is all he dreams of. 
i dream of bombast abstractions, 
will they be something that he's proud of? 
will i ever receive applause from my creators or history's long thumb? 
will i ever go to bed thinking i earned my good fortune? 

these soft hands on my hips... 
we'll finally dance along to melodies we sing inside our head all day, 
they'll stay with us 'til they see the light. 

until then, i'll give what i got, even if it's not special - 
cuz i learn what i'm not when i'm out of perspective. 
i find i fall in at the very last second, 
but my body makes it hard to leave a lasting impression. 

these soft hands have a grip (i find i fall in) 
of where the body they're a part of's going (at the very last second) 
but my body makes it hard... 

it's what i'm working with, it's what i work toward, 
not what i'm working on, or who i'm working for. 
is it worth it? 

it's what i'm working with, it's what i work toward, 
not what i'm working on, or who i'm working for. 
is it worth it? am i worth it? 

and when it's done we'll dance and dance and dance.

Spirituals

STRFKR - Death as a Fetish

Yucky Duster consists of four friends based in Brooklyn who use sassy pop songs to convey earnest ideas about both the mundane and special things in life. Their new EP Duster's Lament is out 1/13 as part of the Infinity Cat Cassette Series, curated by Casey Weissbuch.

The Mountain Goats "Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds"

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