Harlem Roulette by The Mountain Goats
“From the new album Transcendental Youth. Includes John explaining the inspiration for the song.”
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From the new album Transcendental Youth. Includes John explaining the inspiration for the song.
the loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you're never going to see again
nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands
The loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you're never going to see again.
By far and away the band I've listened to most in the last year is The Mountain Goats... and yet I've never posted them to TIMJ?! Time to remedy that: Listen as John Darnielle, with empathy turned to 11, tells and sings the sad, sad story of Frankie Lymon.
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On repeat this morning, driving under the moonlight.
