#against pollution

[absolute-lithops-effecting]

WHEN THE LAST DAYS COME WE SHALL SEE VISIONS MORE VIVID THAN SUNSETS BRIGHTER THAN STARS WE WILL RECOGNISE EACH OTHER AND SEE OURSELVES FOR THE FIRST TIME THE WAY WE REALLY ARE. PLEASE. PLEASE

[solomon-revisited]

"It's a song about making peace with your choices; it's also a gloss on this passage from C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, a book I'd read about a decade earlier:

"We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological make-up is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of this material, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first time, see every one as he really was. There will be surprises."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[evilkitten3]

aita?

i (35 m) was working at the liquor store when a guy (? m) came in and tried to kill me so i shot him in the face. am i the asshole? would do it again btw

[bestgoats]

Round 2: which Mountain Goats song is better?

Stench of the Unburied (Goths)

Against Pollution (We Shall All Be Healed)

Voting ended onAug 31, 2025

If you don't know these songs, consider giving them a listen before you vote– maybe you'll discover a new favorite!

[tmg-lyrics-daily]

We will recognize each other, and see ourselves for the first time, the way we really are.

Its a song about making peace with your choices; its also a gloss on this passage from C. S. Lewis's 'Mere Christianity', a book I'd read about a decade earlier:

"We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the pan's psychological make-up is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or worst out of this material, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first time, see every one as he really was. There will be no surprises"

[attention-all-pickpockets]

i don't think you guys understand just how much this recording of against pollution means to me

[bitebeforebark]

when the last days come, we shall see visions. more vivid than sunsets, brighter than stars

[unidentifiedwhistlingobject]

cried three separate times at the mountain goats concert