Mountain Goats, The

Catherine Antrim's Kid
brush all the dust of Kansasoff of my special shoeswhen the coach lets us out at the corner storemom was coughing like an old man, shivering like a cold manand i found some trouble to get intoand the admiration was mutualsplit my winnings with mom 55/45 but it didn't keep her aliveI got lost out there in new mexiconothing to lose nowhere to goI got lost when my lucky stars crossedthat night I dreamt about Ft. Stantonthough I didn't know to call it that yetand the night wrapped me up in its long dark embraceI had that same expression on as that one picture of my facewhich was all anyone would ever know about meafter my visitors got done with meI lay down singing on the porch blood streaming from my mouthsounded kind of like [???] but to tell you the truthI got lost out there in new mexiconothing to lose nowhere to goI got lost when my lucky stars crossed Aus Songtexte Mania