| Alpha Desperation March | |
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Album |
Transmissions to Horace |
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Released |
1993 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
2:51 |
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Alpha Desperation March is the fifth song on the tape Transmissions to Horace. It was re-released on the compilation Bitter Melon Farm.
Lyrics
I'm coming in Try to stop me Push furniture in front of the door It only gives me something to push against In the full heat of the summer's day You're telling me to go away But you owe me eight-thousand dollars And I can use it I'm only getting stronger You may have noticed But a head full of memories propels me ever forward And in the living room I don't see where you are But the back door's locked so you can't have gone far And eight thousand dollars is a whole lot of money And I could use it Could be that it's my imagination But I think I hear you now So come out come out, wherever you are Olly olly olly olly olly olly oxen free See I'm perfectly aware of where our love stands But the plain fact is that you owe me eight grand If it helps to jog your memory I lent it to you one Tuesday when we were drinking Ha! ha-ha-ha-uh-uh-ha! Uh-ha! uh-ha! uh uh uh-ha! Uh-ha! ha ha ha Ha ha ha Uh-ha Uh-ha Uh-ha
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song
Things Referenced in this Song
Live Shows this Song Was Played at
- 1992-12-27 - Xmasfest - Munchie's - Pomona, CA
- 1999-07-23 - CBGB - New York City, NY
- 2004-05-27 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
- 2005-03-04 - Gate City Noise - Greensboro, NC
- 2005-06-18 - China Clipper - Olympia, WA
- 2009-03-21 - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue - Washington, D.C.
- 2009-10-15 - Magnet - Berlin, Germany
- 2010-04-13 - Manning Bar - Sydney, Australia
- 2014-01-19 - Rock for Roe at the Pinhook - Durham, NC
- 2014-06-14 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
| Transmissions to Horace |
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Side One: "Going to Cleveland" • "Early Spring" • "Historiography" • "No, I Can't" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Going to Monaco" |
| Bitter Melon Farm |
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Track list: "Noche del Guajolote" • "Going to Bangor" • "Against Agamemnon" • "Going to Cleveland" • "Early Spring" • "Historiography" • "No, I Can't" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Going to Monaco" • "Star Dusting" • "Teenage World" • "Going to Santiago" • "Sail On" • "Black Molly" • "Rain Song" • "The Bad Doctor" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Pure Intentions" • "The Lady from Shanghai" • "Pure Love" • "Song for an Old Friend" • "Snow Song" • "Faithless Bacchant Song" • "Short Song About the 10 Freeway" • "No, I Can't" • "Song for Dana Plato" • "The Sign" |
| The "Alpha" Series |
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Track list: "Alpha Aquae" • "Alpha Desperation March" • "Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Alpha Incipiens" • "Alpha Negative" • "Alpha Omega" • "Alpha Rats Nest" • "Alpha Sun Hat" • "Alpha in Tauris" • "Alphabetizing" • "Letter from a Motel" • "One Winter at Point Alpha Privative" • "Spilling Toward Alpha" • "Fit Alpha Vi" • "Alpha Compunction" • "Going to Dade County" • "Tallahassee" • "First Few Desperate Hours" • "Southwood Plantation Road" • "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" • "The House That Dripped Blood" • "Idylls of the Kings" • "No Children" • "See America Right" • "Peacocks" • "International Small Arms Traffic Blues" • "Have to Explode" • "Old College Try" • "Oceanographer's Choice" • "Ethiopians" • "Alpha Chum Gatherer" • "New Chevrolet in Flames" • "Design Your Own Container Garden" • "Going to Federal Prison" • "Orange Ball of Hate" |