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by Mountain Goats


This is The Mountain Goats' cover of the Silver Jews' song.


                     
Guard my bed while the rain turns the ditches to mirrors

buy a vase of carnations from central Ohio

where the looking machine can't hear us

 
Deep in the night we dream of positions

there's a line for the phone in the hall

and in the cold places where Spanish is spoken

most wars end in the fall
                               
You never know where your pet will go
      
pet politics


Still wearing last nights' mascara

now that her pet was gone for sure

she was shivering so hard 

it looked like there were two of her


I could see through the sleeve of her blouse

the mute plans of her architect lover

a tattoo of a boarded-up house

and ink door that belonged to another
                               
When the rain hits you it hits you slow
      
stitch after stitch

Adam was not the first man 'though the Bible tells us so
There was one created before him, whose name we do not know
He also lived in the garden
but he had no mouth or eyes
One day Adam came to kill him
and he died beneath these skies

I find it so amazing how
I go where I'm led (x2)

                         
I suspect we could be losing now
      
please guard my bed (x3)