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We had our passports out and the kits to fix them up with,
and the hurricane lamp cast our shadows on the ceiling.
I watched them box with one another like Punch and Judy.
It was dangerous and delightful, it was that kind of feeling
when you said
That you were sure
there was nothing standing in our way,
and the lie
ran off and hid itself
in the alleys
all around Bombay.

I saw you knock the lamp over while reaching for the scissors,
and I wondered how we'd ever get by without it,
And you fell into my arms – sweet and gentle.
Poison in the water, little doubt about it
and you said
that one of us
would be all alone someday.
And the truth of it
echoed inexhaustibly
all across
Bombay.

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from Devil in the Shortwave, released December 1, 2001

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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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