#all devils here now

[john-gosh-darnielle]

Shrieks and squeals and high-pitched whines and we

we are your neighbors

[mountaingoatsfirstlineaday]

On humid evenings you have heard

[mountaingoatsyoutubecomments]

[whentherewerebicycles]

the mountain goats, “devilshere”

on humid evenings you have heard your neighbors making noises that you wonder for a while about and then put off investigating

shrieks and squeals and high-pitched whines and we, we are your neighbors.

on hazy afternoons you hear your neighbors come and go and maybe stay away a day or two and then return appearing worse for wear.

scrubbed up and hollow-eyed you tried your best to ignore us.

you see us at the grocery store you wonder what we’re shopping for we lean against the Thermador eyes fixed firmly on the floor Pomona’s big as all outdoors

and we, we are your neighbors.

[onemountaingoatssongaday]

All Devils Here Now

On humid evenings you have heard Your neighbors making noises That you wonder for awhile about And then put off investigating Shrieks and squeals and high-pitched whines and we We are your neighbors

In hazy afternoons you've watched Your neighbors come and go And maybe stay away a day or two And then return appearing worse for wear Scratched up and hollow-eyed, you tried Your best to ignore us

You see us at the grocery store You wonder what we're shopping for We lean against the Thermador Eyes fixed firmly on the floor Pomona's big as all outdoors and we We are your neighbors

Unreleased 

"OK well I hit 40 thousand followers a few weeks back but I was on tour & busy with stuff so this had to wait. This is from a while back: it shares psychic & geographic space with all the other stuff I was writing about in 2002 & 2003 so yeah, here's an old demo. the bugs you hear are actual Iowa bugs outside the window where I was recording.Enjoy!” 

- Twitter

[emotionallaborunion]

380. All Devils Here Now

There’s that humidity again!

From the We Shall All Be Healed era. Clearly wouldn’t have fit on the album, but does fit with the story. I like the smugness of “we are your neighbors.”

[slowwestvultures]

Will no one stay my hand

“We are your neighbours” 

[slowwestvultures]

What do you think All Devils Here Now is about? I'm thinking the neighbours are either meth heads or vampires and I can't stop thinking about the "you" in the song whom I have named Patrica. She just wants to water her geraniums and go grocery shopping and she's gotta deal w/ the fucking weirdo neighbours all the time