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Track: Peru
Artist: The Mountain Goats
Album: Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan

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Name: The Mountain Goats
Spotify Genres: folk punk, anti-folk, indie folk
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The Mountain Goats are an American indie folk band formed in Claremont, California by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the plural moniker. Although he remains the core member of the band, he has worked with a variety of collaborators over time. Throughout the 1990s, the Mountain Goats were known for producing low-fidelity home recordings (most notably, on a cassette deck boombox) and releasing recordings in cassette or vinyl 7” formats. Since 2002, the Mountain Goats have recorded studio albums with a full band. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. Line-ups: 1991-1996: John Darnielle and Rachel Ware. 2002-2007: John Darnielle and Peter Hughes. 2007-2015: John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster. 2015-2024: John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wuster, Matt Douglas. 2024-Present: John Darnielle, Jon Wurster, Matt Douglas. Occasional members 1991-1995: Sarah Arslanian, Amy Piatt, and Rosanne Lindley. Occasional members 1995-present: Franklin Bruno, Erik Friedlander, John Vanderslice.

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Release: The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Year: 2025
Genres: Rock
Styles: Indie Rock

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LYRICS

You were already talking when I woke up today
For a man on combat rations, you sure do find a lot to say
Try to fix my attention, can't clear my head
Sun clearing the waterline
Hot and deadly and red
Like the flowers you said you wrote about
About a million years ago, you said they grew
On a distant mountain in Peru

I don't want the water to break you
Let me lead you back to the fire
You've always got a little further to drop
When you've risen that much higher

Fear in my heart like a shadow
I can't let it linger too long
When your gift begins to consume you
One of us will have to be strong

Like the flowers that die in the winter
But never fail to grow back new
In the cracks down in the canyons in Peru

In the deep crevices where you wouldn't think the light could reach
Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach

Let the man whose heart would know peace
Praise all the things that he should praise
Just about a week in the future
These are going to seem like the good days

Because the snake is going to rise from the pit
And brother will turn against brother
We won't have a minute to lose
At most we'll only have each other

Like the flowers you said you saw when you were young
When you were still you
Like the flowers you may have imagined
Doing what their nature tells them to
Worlds away in the wind in Peru