#cry for judas

[jarfieid]

Oh well. Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth.

[airplanetunez]

Cry for Judas by the mountain goats is THE Faulkner song to me this is crazy

[doctorskelegoats]

So much about this song (Cry for Judas) screams griddlehark to me. They are the ones who don't slow down at all, with nobody there to catch them when they fall. Hallucinate a shady grove where griddle when to die. And these lines, with Harrow and Gideon being (respectively) sad and angry. Artist Credit: @callairo

[schizoprophet]

It is not a secret about me that one of the things I like to do is read stories in the Bible and get sad about it. That's like, that's been a pastime of mine since I was a child. Let me find the story that really makes me feel sad for the person in the story who I can't help because one, they've been dead for years if they ever existed in the first place. And two, if you're reading a story to try and help the people in the story, then you have approached the whole thing from the wrong end. Because you can't, that's the thing you cannot really do except to choose your own adventure books. And the Bible is not one of those. So one of the best stories to read if you like to read the Bible and make yourself feel sad for the people in it is the story of The Last Supper. Jesus Christ gets a bunch of his friends together, right? And then let's take the Jesus part off just as a person. You get a bunch of your friends together, right? And you have dinner, this big old dinner, you know, some bread and whatever, some wine and it's cool to be with your friends. It's fun, it's a good feeling, you know. And then you just get a vibe, there's a very, very, very specific vibe that you get. Right. And these are your friends so you can speak your mind around them. You can tell them how you feel and you say, you know, one of you is gonna sell me out. I just know it. You've - you've had some wine at this point. So you know, you can say that. Your friends will not judge you for speaking what's in your heart at this moment, and some of them are also, they've had a couple of glasses of wine themselves. They immediately go God, no, you are my friend. I would never, I would never, man. I want you to know person to person tonight. I will never sell you out. You, we've meant a lot to each other over the past couple of years and I will not sell you out man. And Jesus is like, OK, it's all good, you know, and they all do this. And one of 'em doesn't say shit. And he knows and he knows they both know and the one who's gonna do it feels worse than the one who's gonna suffer for it. Because he sort of knows I'm gonna do this thing. I guess I am. I don't want to. These are my friends, they're all gonna hate me. And in one version of the four gospels, Judas, uh, having sold Christ out, who normally then gets arrested and murdered by the state. Right? Um, in one version of the gospel Judas immediately goes and hangs himself. I've always - when I was a child I was like, oh, man. I mean, I understand that it'd probably be a tough one to live down in Jerusalem if you're the guy who killed Jesus. But, I mean, you know, that seems like kind of an extreme. This song is called cry for Judas.

-- John Darnielle about Cry for Judas, Tivoli de Helling on 2019-11-14

[owochimauwu]

i’m still here, but all is lost.

Cry for Judas, The Mountain Goats (2012)

[john-gosh-darnielle]

some things you do

just to see

how bad they'll make you feel

[theresatmgsongforthat]

i want a song for murdering someone in the heat of the moment, then being scared because you just murdered someone

there's a mountain goats song for that!

[malaisequotes]

“Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth, draw a white chalk Baphomet. Mistreat your altar boys long enough, and this is what you get.”

Cry for Judas by The Mountain Goats

[dearestlyrics]

sad and angry, can't learn how to behave

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

[ansu-gurleht]

long, black night morning frost i'm still here but all is lost

[aspd-culture]

aspd-culture is

Cry for Judas by The Mountain Goats

[stereopticons]

Speed up to the precipice and then slam on the brakes

Some people crash two or three times and then learn from their mistakes

We are the ones that 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

[probablymoons]

i cant even say the Cry for Judas mv gives me shrimp emotions because really its so extremely human. just a good music video yeah

[sinclair-wax-fan]

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