Wear Black
Lyrics
Rain every day
Fog all night
Wind in the evergreen cypresses
See me, Lord of Wind and Rain
See me, guardian of the Underpasses
Wear black when it's light outside
Wear black when there's no light
Wear black following the left hand path
Wear black when I get right
Waves at night
Hard waves at dawn
All this coast is vanishing
Check me out, I can't blend in
Check me out, I'm young and ravishing
Wear black on your forgotten radar
Wear black in the present tense
Wear black when you come around
Wear black in your absence
Wear black high as a kite (wear black)
Wear black dead sober (wear black)
Wear black when the trouble starts (wear black)
Wear black when it's over (wear black)
Sun through the trees
Head for the sun
Can't find the path back to the main road
See me, Lord of The Thomas Guide
See me, [undying - 2017-06-01] Keeper of the Source Code
Wear black to the intervention
Wear black back to the car
Wear black wherever I go
Wear black wherever you are
Banter
- So, the Mountain Goats are a band, but there's one guy with a 51% vote. It's not Peter. The Mountain Goats are notoriously resistant to unnecessary change. For example, we didn't have a drummer for 12 years. So you'll notice like every other fuckin' band you ever see, behind the drummer, there's a big backdrop that says the band's name. I feel like, personally, y'know, they kinda know who you are. SBut then people present the case to me, look, it's cool. It adds to the staging. And I go, plegh, staging. The weak need staging. But on the Goths tour I ahve been trying to be open to the haze machine a little bit. But after hte fourth song, I'm like, that's enough on the fog machine. So Jordan, who just brought me tequila, please give it up for Jordan, he's a good dude [crowd obliges], he comes on, and I say, hey man, can you tell them to back off the fog machine a little bit, then I look at Peter, and say, what song is it? He says, oh, Wear Black, so I say, oh, can you leave the haze machine on for one more track. If there's one thing I love in this world, it's an enabler. (2017-06-01 The Fillmore)
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