#& ezekiel 7 and the permanent efficacy of grace

[windpopart]

The Clouds Explode, May 9th, 2024

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okay so Hair Match deservedly gets a lot of praise for being a slow closing track with stunning instrumentation and having That One Line that recontextualises the whole song but you know what also does all that? Ezekiel 7.

Like, all the way through the song, Hair Match is a very matter-of-fact, objective description of what's happening throughout and after the match, and then 'I loved you before I even ever knew what love was like' is the realisation that gives it so much more emotional weight.

And I would argue that Ezekiel does the same thing with 'I had his arms tied up behind him'. Because all the way through the song, you could interpret the narrator as being pretty callous and distanced from what they've just done. Imo 'someone will need to mop this floor for me' creates this sense of detachment, like their mind is already wandering.

But then, in that last verse, you realise that everything described since that moment in the song has been the narrator desperately trying to distract themselves. Driving for hours, injecting whatever narcotic, even turning on the radio and trying to sing along - it's all just an attempt to think about something, anything else.

Until they can't anymore. 'I had his arms tied up behind him. We were together all day.' It's so plaintive. And obviously the listener already takes seriously what's going on, it's heavily implied that a murder is committed at the beginning of the song, but it explains why we're being told this story from the perspective of the murderer. It means, as in Hair Match, that they do care and they do remember, whatever that means. And that gives what has happened this monumental weight within the narrative.

All this to say, TMG closing tracks do make me cry quite frequently.

[malaisequotes]

“Drive until the rain stops. Keep driving.”

Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats

[scorndotexe]

you guys ever think about the eroticism in violence?

[coldfruitwater]

shoutout to the mountain goats for making the intimate violent and the violent intimate

[catboyclarity]

We don’t have enough love for the weirdly erotic The Mountain Goats song about torturing a guy to death

[unloneliest]

we have GOT to start eroticizing the mountain goats' desert torture song

[vagaland]

(try to anyway)

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

1 Samuel 15:23 • Psalms 40:2 • Genesis 3:23 • Philippians 3:20-21 • Hebrews 11:40 • Genesis 30:3 • Romans 10:9 • 1 John 4:16 • Matthew 25:21 • Deuteronomy 2:10 • Isaiah 45:23 • Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[ineffableclassics]

Obscure Songs To Read, Write or Cry Over Post Good Omens Season 2 Fanfiction To

Stardust - Nat King Cole

Time In A Bottle- Jim Croce

Kiss Me ( I Loved You) - Father John Misty

Trouble - Father John Misty

Old Friends/Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel

Send In The Clowns -Judy Collins

The Greatest Bastard -Damien Rice

Arkangel -John Wetton

Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace- The Mountain Goats

[hasbeenandroid]

ok actually heres another one. 1937 STATE PARK- a jay/tim/jam fanmix TRACKLIST: 1937 state park- car seat headrest awful sound (oh eurydice)- arcade fire voicemail- lesbian poetry so far- attic abasement calculation theme- metric turnstile blues- autolux get up- sleater kinney trouble- connie converse hundreds of sparrows- sparklehorse ezekiel 7 and the permanent efficacy of grace- the mountain goats

[gideonthefirst]

tagged by @obeetlebeetle ages ago to list ten songs

Life During Wartime by Talking Heads

Having a Stop Making Sense moment. As if it's my fault.

2. Higgs Boson Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Submitted this for the current Evil League round, which is just this image:

3. The Calendar Hung Itself... by Bright Eyes

See my pinned post. As if it's my fault.

4. We Are Almost Down to the Shore by Jimmie Struthers, rendition by Dom Flemons

Saw Dom Flemons live twice this weekend, his performance of this song alongside with the whole audience singing was really awesome

5. Ezekiel 7 & the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats

I have a migraine. Sorry.

6. Tipsy by J-Kwon, covered by clipping.

THE MOVEMENT! THE MOMENT!

7. All Of the Women by Allison Russell

She said I used to be a dancer some grace you don't lose thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up

8. Runnin' Away, rendition by Hubby Jenkins

Got an email that he was doing a show nearby soon and so decided to get into him and this last treck on his LP is awesome I really really like it

9. baethoven by Ekko Astral

STREAM PINK BALLOONS!

10. 9/12 by Home Is Where

do Not want to go to work tomorrow.

[argentsunshine]

url playlist thanks for the tag @dykegoro! i tried to not make this all the mountain goats. i could have done that.

a - Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozier

r - Rio - MIKA

g - Great Vacation - Dirt Poor Robins

e - Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace - The Mountain Goats

n - Not Yet/Love Run (Reprise) - The Amazing Devil

t - Thor - The Mechanisms

s - Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy

u - Until I Am Whole - The Mountain Goats

n - No Children - The Mountain Goats

s - The Sharpest Lives - My Chemical Romance

h - Heel Turn 2 - The Mountain Goats

i - It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Deathwish - My Chemical Romance

n - No Happy Ending - The Mechanisms

e - Estate Sale Sign - The Mountain Goats

tagging @mqole @dragonsbutter @nottodaylogic @arsonadvocate if u feel like it lmao

[malaisequotes]

“High as the clouds now, flying. Drive until the rain stops. Keep driving.”

Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats

[scorndotexe]

re-animator. elwood. ezekiel 7 and the permanent efficacy of grace. elwood again. cannibalism. hi hello can anyone hear me it's just been moment after moment tonight

[coldfruitwater]