Mar
21
“I am young and I am good.”
Filed Under general, concerts, The Mountain Goats |
Tonight, I saw the Mountain Goats live in concert. While I admit that a band whose name recalls barnyard livestock doesn’t initially sound like the kind that might equally evoke beautiful acoustic poetry, these folks do. Fronted by a guy that looks like an early 90s cable access version of Bob Saget, the Goats played a show that — while entirely too short — was one of the most beautiful things I’ve encountered in a really long time.
They didn’t play this song tonight, but it’s one of my favorites, from the album The Sunset Tree. The imagery is so evocative, so frenetic, so alive.
but I do wake you up, and when I do
you blaze down the hall and you scream.
I’m in my room with the headphones on
deep in the dream chamber.
and then I’m awake and I’m guarding my face,
hoping you don’t break my stereo.
because it’s the one thing that I couldn’t live without
and so I think about that and then I sorta black out.
The show was held in the basement of a church. At one point (perhaps after the lead singer’s solo acoustic rendition of the classic “Abide in Me”), my girlfriend Katie looked up at me and said, “Is it wrong that the most meaningful moment I’ve had in a church in awhile was during a folk concert?” I wasn’t sure exactly what to say then, but I know what I’d say now.