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Pseudothyrum Song

from Isopanisad Radio Hour by the Mountain Goats

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Why do you treat me this way?
And why do you try so hard to break my spirit?
I think someone was mean to you when you were little,
that's whatIU think.
I think someone was mean to you.

Why do you cling to such petty points of contention?
and why don't you allow me one or two small victories now and then?
I think someone was mean to you when you didn't deserve it,
that's what I think.
I think someone was mean to you.

But I – I am not that guy,
can you get that straight?
I am a completely different person
from the one you have in mind.

Why do you stand by the things you say,
long after you don't mean to hurt anybody anymore?
I think someone was mean to you
for a long, long time,
that's what I think.
I think someone was mean to you.

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from Isopanisad Radio Hour, released May 1, 2000

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the Mountain Goats Durham, North Carolina

John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life.
—John Hodgman, 2012
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