#moon over goldsboro

[attention-all-pickpockets]

" walking home,

i was talking to you under my breath

saying things i would never say directly

i heard a siren on the highway up ahead

kinda wished they'd come and get me "

[malaisequotes]

“I laid down in the weeds. It was a real cold night. I was happy ‘til the overnight attendant switched on the floodlight.”

Moon Over Goldsboro by The Mountain Goats

[epersonae]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I went to see TMG - and they still sing this song, and people sing along, and --

For a long time, this was a song (and album) that I was specifically warned against listening to. And when I watched one of the Jordan Lake sessions with Ryn, they played it, and it happened to have perfectly resonant timing with stuff I was working thru in EMDR, and I wept, and Ryn held me.

And then, by the time I saw it live, I had gone through Fresh Horrors, and No Children held for me not poison but a sort of unbridled joy of having survived that, at least, and I remember singing along with a crowded room full of people and feeling uplifted. A strange and beautiful experience.

couldn’t stop thinking about this post

[irrealisms]

you wear the moon like a halo - a web weave for princezam after subz's death

The Final Chapters - PrinceZam VOD // cannivalisms codependency poll // Grief and Bereavement: What Psychiatrists Need to Know (Zisook, Shear) // Hamlet and Ghost by John Gilbert and the Dalziel Brothers // Sensing a Presence After a Loss: Hallucination or Vision of Grief? // Ghosted by Angelica Alzona // He's Not Here from Next to Normal // The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan // Primavera - NBC Hannibal // Moon Over Goldsboro - the Mountain Goats

a(nother) present for @arceoptryx for @mcytblrholidayexchange !

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Wild Sage

New Monster Avenue

Half Dead

Get Lonely

Maybe Sprout Wings

Moon Over Goldsboro

In the Hidden Places

Song For Lonely Giants

Woke Up New

If You See Light

Cobra Tattoo

In Corolla

Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube

[microcosmtoxin]

2, 8, 20 for the ask game?

tmg asks

2: top TWENTY FAVORITE SONGS

holy shit twenty is a big number in no particular order heel turn 2, heretic pride, autoclave, get lonely, dilaudid, broom people, this year (jordan lake sessions vol 3 specifically), cotton, sicilian crest, going invisible two, slow west vultures, game shows touch our lives, riches and wonders, no children, love love love, elijah, wear black, deuteronomy 2:10, never quite free, dance music, rat queen. i think thats twenty.

8: favorite song with a location in the title

ok the obvious answer is a going to. the obvious answer is one of my favorite going tos like palestine, maryland, or georgia. the real fuckin answer is moon over goldsboro. get lonely MY BELOVED

20: personal story

oh man oh man. what the hell is there to even say. i think my earliest memory of tmg is from when i was in middle school, like i very specifically remember this one specific lyric video that probably was circulating in one of my fandom discords that i listened to and i just loved it (it actually might have been one of you were cool but i dont remember). like i was entranced. but i remained a very casual fan for a long while until at some point in like high school. and i think i read some fanfic of probably cr with a heel turn 2 reference and i listened to it and just again was entranced and it happened again and again until i got to where i am today. i have a massive fucking reverence for jd and i could list in an innumerable amount of ways in which his music has pushed me through and brought me joy but honestly i just admire how strongly he lets himself be expressive and keep up this incredibly prolific music career despite the fact that most people look at this massive catalogue and confusing lyrics and go what the hell. i also know the feeling which i think he has of just stories and words falling out of you and i just!!! the goats. the greatest of all times.

[fishparasite]

i do think moon over goldsboro works well for the secondary protagonist of my hacked android story

[vacant2007]

the mountain goats, "moon over goldsboro"

[epersonae]

Tmg song meme: up the wolves, spent gladiator 2, moon over Goldsboro

<3

Just when that day is coming who can say? Who can say?

Something something the problem of optimism

Like the nagging flash of insight/You're always desperate to avoid

(this is a hard one because it's such good lines and also stay forever alive was Ryn's TMG tattoo) (but rhyming "avoid" with "destroyed" is :chefkiss:)

Remembered the day we moved into our small house/Until the vision got too vivid to bear

Today I found a photo Ryn took in August 2019 of me in the kitchen of the yellow house, holding Creamsicle, and you can't see my face, and it might be the only photo I have of the yellow kitchen in the yellow house.

But actually I know every line of this by heart and all of it makes me weep.

(per an earlier post today: I WAILED at this song when I saw them live, for the first time, without Ryn) (I can't remember if the bit of post-S1 Ed POV that I wrote that that concert actually made it into anything I've posted)

[from-beyond]

Hate 2 say it squad but the current Official Mountain Goats Danbert Song is Moon Over Goldsboro

[attention-all-pickpockets]

" and a guy with any kind of courage

would maybe stop to think the matter through

maybe hold you still and raise the question

instead of blindly holding onto you "

[malaisequotes]

“Empty lot the station faces will probably be there forever. I climbed over the four-foot fence. I was trying to sever the tether.”

Moon Over Goldsboro by The Mountain Goats

[bredforloyalty]

this kind of day

[straysongdog]

"I lay down in the weeds It was a real cold night I was happy 'til the overnight attendant Switched on the floodlight" -"Moon Over Goldsboro" by the Mountain Goats

Ray from Psychopomp

[ghostcrows]

moon over goldsboro september

[garlic-sauc3]

man... moon over goldsboro....