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-->''There is no sight of land''
-->''You are going down with me''

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-->''There is no sight sign of land''
-->''You are going coming down with me''
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* Deuteronomy 2:10 is a heartbreaking song told through the perspective of extinct animals:

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* Deuteronomy 2:10 "Deuteronomy 2:10" is a heartbreaking song told through the perspective of extinct animals:
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Unsurprisingly with an entire album dedicated to John's [[AbusiveParents stepfather]], there's plenty of Music/TheMountainGoats that are more [[TearJerker bitter than sweet]].
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* "Unmasked!" is sung from the perspective of a MaskedLuchador who is [[LoserLeavesTown retiring]] his opponent by [[DramaticUnmask unmasking him]]. It's surprisingly tragic, and plays like an allegory for a man delivering a MercyKill to a FriendlyEnemy.
-->''And you don't care''
-->''You look almost relieved down there''
-->''Like you're free''
-->''Like you can breathe now''
-->''Like they've sawn off your cast''
-->''One more sleeper to see through''
-->''And by way of honoring the things we once both held dear''
-->''I will reveal you''
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** There is also the heartbreaking delivery of the line "You found my breaking point, ''congratulations''."
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I’m walking out of here in one piece\\
Don’t care what comes after\\

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I’m I'm walking out of here in one piece\\
Don’t Don't care what comes after\\



I don’t want to die in here\\
I don’t want to die in here''

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I don’t don't want to die in here\\
I don’t don't want to die in here''

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* "Maybe Sprout Wings" from ''Get Lonely'' is a heartwrenching paean to friends John lost to drug addiction, and the pain of slowly forgetting those you've lost.
-->''Ghosts and clouds and nameless things''
-->''Squint your eyes and hope real hard''
-->''Maybe sprout wings''
**And then, the back half of the second verse:
-->''The last bits of my dream like figures in the distance, hard to hold''
-->''I thought of old friends, the ones who'd gone missing''
-->''Said all their names three times, phantoms in the early dark''
-->''Canaries in the mines''

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** And:
-->" You have got that look in your eye\\
in the pinprick point where kindness goes to die\\
I'll be six years old next year..."



* "No Children," easily one of the most shamelessly ''negative'' songs ever written.

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* "No Children," easily one of the most shamelessly ''negative'' songs ever written. It's not good to be addicted to a song with lyrics as bleak as:



* "Matthew 25:21", an unashamedly vivid song about the death of a loved one by cancer.

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* "Matthew 25:21", an unashamedly vivid song about the death of a loved one by cancer.cancer, in a similar fashion to Music/SufjanStevens' "Casimir Pulaski Day".

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