the mountain goats lyrics

Only share my research
With sick lab rats like me

And I've told you everything
Even the parts I'd meant to leave out

Work like a dog all day
Born to chase cars away
Die on the road someday

And I am coming home to you
With my own blood in my mouth
And I am coming home to you
If it’s the last thing that I do

It's gonna get so dark for you
I'm gonna leave a mark on you

But the best you've got is powerless against me
And all your little schemes break when they come crashing up against me

The stage is set
Someone's gonna do something someone else will regret

Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania

I'm gonna miss you when you're gone

But I am just a broken machine
And I do things that I don't really mean

Pull your mask down through your hair
They won't see you
Not until you want them to

I will go down punching, but I will go down

I got a goddamn one-way ticket to the goddamn history books

I got a handgun, and a bottle of brandy
Let's go

Calculate magnetic north
And turn the other way
Wait for the coming disaster
I could do this all day

And we will never be alone in this world
No matter what they say
We're gonna be okay

Yeah, you and me and a table set for three
Just in case our assassin should finally come through

I saw the reptile cages reflected in your blue eyes
Their green bodies conspiring therein
To form a separate universe where it was no sin
To want what I wanted right then and there
In the pet store

Climb the turnbuckle high
Take two falls out of three
Blackout for local TV

I am healthy, I am whole
But I have poor impulse control
And I want to go home
But I am home

Just stay alive

Be flexible, be unreplaceable
In a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable

Tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things
Most of the time I guess I felt alright

And you are my best friend
And I have always known you

Yes, everybody's gonna need a witness
Everybody's gonna need a little backup in case the scene gets nasty

Well, they come and pull me from my house
And they drag my body through the streets
And the sun's so hot I think I'll catch fire and burn up
In the summer air so moist and sweet

Yeah, I’m the model of composure out there
But you oughta see me shaking later on

The ghosts that haunt your building are prepared to take on substance
And the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller

Spent too much of my life now trying to play fair
Throw my better self overboard
Shoot at him when he comes up for air

I drove up to Harvey Mudd and I played pinball
till I didn't want to kill anyone