July 22 - So Desperate

Back to heresy again for a while.

What's interesting is that if you'd played this song to me without me seeing the cover and asked me to guess what album it was from, I would definitely have guessed The Sunset Tree. It has that album's sense of yearning, of need. It's often the case that different eras of the Mountain Goats leak into each other, either as early hints of what is to come, or references back to what came before. There's a song on Transcendental Youth that I'll talk about when we get there that I was convinced was on We Shall All Be Healed, because it's such a We Shall All Be Healed song.

Moods reoccur, I suppose. And the mood of this song is the hunger of needing another, of knowing that the mere presence of the other might destroy you, and of being perfectly fine with that if you got just this moment.

If you haven't felt that, well, I hope you feel that. And I hope you recover from that.