Mountain Goats, The - An Antidote For Strychnine Lyrics
Dig around in the garbage
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
Scrape a winter's worth of salt deposits
From the rusty frame of my car
Ask the experts
Call up my teacher in Cambridge
See what he remembers
Throw white phosphorus in the fireplace
Look for clues in the embers
Call the hotline
Give them a phony last name
Try to find
An antidote for strychnine
An antidote for strychnine
Time's running short
Always seems to run shorter
Have some supplies sent
From up just past the northern border
Keep a line out
To the people who take the long view
Only share my research
With sick lab rats like me
Trapped behind the beakers
And the Erlenmeyer flasks
Cut off from the world, I may not ever get free
But I may
One day
Tryin' to find
An antidote for strychnine
Try to find
An antidote for strychnine
So many suffering from the same affliction
Coming up on the breakthrough
The clock's ticking
Dig down amongst my calculations
Check my map
Up there on the surface
Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath
Stem the tide, stem the tide
They're calling down for reinforcements
Tryin' to find
An antidote for strychnine
Tryin' to find
An antidote for strychnine
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Mountain Goats, The An Antidote For Strychnine Comments
This makes all my nerdy tendencies tingle
why is this man trying to find an antidote for strychnine? Out of all things to study, the idiot fixates on an antidote for the most irrelevant toxin known to man. whats his aim? where does the guy get off? where does jom darneel get off? what sort of lawless pleasure does he get out of writing us this vaguery? He knows any sane person wants a protagonist who is solid enough to tuck them in and give them a kiss goodnight. not this pablo picasso character horseshit. geez man. even the first time i played this song i got dissociated for like two hours and ended up puking in my friends car.
Meta-phorical :P
The synth in this reminds me a lot of "Shelved" from Goths
Does this song really remind anyone else of Bloodbourne?
How so?
@//\\/z music I can kinda see, the weird semi-alchemical, semi-scientific research being done and the vaguely gothic tones contribute I think.
What a song, better with each dose...slowly drifting away ....no antidote!
You used to be my favorite acoustic metal band. This isn't even ironic-funny, it's true melodic suicide.
also, "acoustic metal"? what? tmg at its best is folk rock
You can still listen to the old albums, but I am really glad to see some changes in tMG tunes. I had to listen to this a few times to get it to grow on me; it almost felt like a country album, but it really is similar to Goths. ILWD is not my favorite album, but there are some real bangers on this album and I hope you give it another shot.
musicians don't owe it to you to stunt their own growth.
True melodic suicide is a pretty good title for something
Ahhahahahgahahgahgah can you even imagine
Dig around in the garbage
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
Scrape a winter's worth of salt deposits
From the rusty frame of my car
Ask the experts
Maybe they'll know
Call up my teacher in Cambridge
See what he remembers
Throw white phosphorus in the fireplace
Look for clues in the embers
Call the hotline
Give them a phony last name
Try to find
An antidote for strychnine
Trying to find
An antidote for strychnine
Time's running short
Always seems to run shorter
Have some supplies sent
From up just past the northern border
Keep a line out
To the people who take the long view
Only share my research
With sick lab rats like me
Trapped behind the beakers
And the Erlenmeyer flasks
Cut off from the world, I may not ever get free
But I may
One day
Trying to find
An antidote for strychnine
Trying to find
An antidote for strychnine
So many suffering from the same affliction
Coming up on a breakthrough
The clock's ticking
Dig down amongst my calculations
Check my map
Up there on the surface
Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath
Stem the tide, stem the tide
They're calling down for reinforcements
Trying to find
An antidote for strychnine
Trying to find
An antidote for strychnine
Holy shit this song is gooooooood!
good god what a bop. I'm in love. does anyone have recommendations for artists that have similar songs to this?
Conor oberst (from bright eyes) or AJJ (Andrew Jackson Jihad)
neutral milk hotel
M. Ward, his album "Post War" is great
One of the best songs on the album, if not in their whole discography.
Hair o' the dog. (No, but I love "tMG.") :-)