Alpha Sun Hat Lyrics
I'd really like to play along
Your ruby red mouth is full and moist
I'd like to give in to your oboe reed voice
But as sure as those are buzzards in the guava tree
You're looking real funny at me
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That's not music you hear, that's the devil
That's not the sun up in the sky, it's a human heart
If you're planning your escape, you know I'm all for you
As I watch the sun come up again over Tallahassee, Florida
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John Darnielle before playing this song at Pitzer College on December 2, 2006:
“This used to be my favorite song to play. It’s one of those songs about this couple that I dreamt of that, that was divorcing. Always they’d be divorcing. If you go over to their house, they were open about it, in my mind, you’d go and say, ‘hey, you guys, what’s up with you?’ ‘Ah, you know, I’m-a divorce his ass, fuck this guy,’ and then he’d be like, watching TV, and go, ‘She says that all the time and she’s not going anywhere, she knows where the booze is at,’ and then you say, ‘Wow, what time is it getting to be? I suppose I’ll be on my way. It was –’ and you lie… ‘It was good to see you both, I miss you, so come on down some, sometime,’ and meanwhile, when you leave, you pray to the God in whom you don’t believe that they will never, ever drop by your house, because they’ll fuck that shit right up. I have an affection for this couple. I wish they would get the divorce that they need, but it never seems to happen for them. I’m in control of the situation, so there must be something wrong with me, that I won’t give them what they want.”
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- 12.Going to Bristol
- 14.Going to Lebanon
- 15.Grendel’s Mother
- 17.Alpha in Tauris
- 18.Going to Georgia