Cry for Judas - the Mountain Goats video free download


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Duration: 03:14
Uploaded: 2012/07/26

Lyrics:

Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel

Sometimes you try to freeze time 'till those thoughts are a blur of spinning wheels

But I am just a broken machine and I do things that I don't really mean

Long black night

Morning frost

I'm still here

but all is lost

Speed up to the precipice and then slam on the brakes

Some people crashed two or three times and then learned from their mistakes

But we are the ones who don't slow down at all

And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall

Long black night

Morning frost

I'm still here

but all is lost

Feel the storm every night, hope it passed us by

Hallucinate a shady grove where Judas went to die

Unfurl the black velvet alter cloth, draw a white chalk Baphomet

Mistreat your alter boys long enough and this is what you get

Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave

Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

Long black night

Morning frost

I'm still here

but all is lost

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Comments

9 years ago

undathebridge

he plays this really damn fast.. but... i guess.. "speed up to the precipice."

9 years ago

Moonsidewalker

well somebody had to kill jesus..

9 years ago

Evan Marcy

I have to say, I grew up with the Mountajn Goats, and I have an infinite love an appreciation for those lo-fi gems of his first few albums, but even these newer songs, which I often feel are crowded with too much instrumentation, largely because I am used to the simplicity of John, his guitar, and the faint hum of the boom box in the background, still surprise me with their lyrical and emotional depth. John always seems to shine through somehow. Pure genius.

9 years ago

nearthe2nd

If there's ever another Great Gatsby movie this should be apart of the soundtrack.

10 years ago

Alex Quirk

Some things you do/Just to see how bad they'll make you feelAlso, baphomet reference.

11 years ago

Crystal Liu

Dat brass.

11 years ago

Verdictus13

Yup, it's Baphomet, not battlement.

11 years ago

14hp1

Yeah, I didn't think it sounded like "battlement" either but that's what I saw when I looked the lyrics up. Anyway, thanks for the corrections, I think they're fixed in the description now

11 years ago

itsAvirusxox

Also, don't quote me on this, since a lot of the lyric sites on google disagree with me, but I'm pretty sure the line is "a white chalk Baphomet" instead of "battlement" - i don't think it sounds like battlement at all and i'm not sure how so many people do???

11 years ago

itsAvirusxox

"Some people crashed to earth three times" should be "Some people crash TWO OR three times". "Halucinate a shady growth where Judas went to die" should be "Hallucinate a shady GROVE where Judas went to die" you're welcome

11 years ago

Fran Ross

also FIRST COMMENT HURR HURR i love you, h :D

11 years ago

Fran Ross

this song is pretty

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