Alpha Gelida | |
---|---|
Album |
Taking the Dative |
Released |
1994 |
Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
Length |
2:00 |
Previous Track |
Alpha Gelida is the sixth song on the tape Taking the Dative. It was re-released on the compilation Ghana.
Lyrics[]
Popcorn was snapping in the hot oil on the kitchen stove And the sky through the kitchen window was cold and poised and threatening Heard your voice come lilting through the wall I heard your voice come sailing from the other room Let the young lions come Let me break their jaws Let the young lions come out Let me break their jaws with my bare fingers Coffee was dripping through the paper filter cone The hip scent of it nearly knocked me out I heard your voice come lilting through the back of the refrigerator Heard your voice come breaking through the wall Let the young lions come out Let me talk them out of it Let the young lions come Let me break their jaws with my bare fingers
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "...I don't quite get what is going on in this song. Most of the time I have a pretty good idea of what's going on with the people, and I don't really know what is behind the refrigerator in this song. I will someday find out." -- 2012-06-28 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA
Things Referenced in this Song[]
- Psalm 58:4, which states, "Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord." (KJV)
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 1994-08-22 - The Middle East - Cambridge, MA
- 1996-03-14 - Broadway Kino - Essen, Belgium (partial)
- 1996-09-03 - Fletcher's - Baltimore, MD
- 1997-02-XX - Bob's Underground - Grinnell, IA
- 1997-04-04 - Duke Coffeehouse - Durham, NC
- 1997-06-21 - Tokyo Rose - Charlottesville, VA
- 1998-04-04 - Duke Coffeehouse - Durham, NC
- 1998-05-15 - The Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL
- 1999-01-29 - Mercury Paw - Louisville, KY
- 2002-10-09 - The Cobblestone - Dublin, Ireland
- 2007-06-16 - Zoop - Farm Sanctuary - Watkins Glen, NY
- 2009-03-19 - Duke Coffeehouse - Durham, NC
- 2009-04-01 - Portage Theater - Chicago, IL
- 2012-06-22 - Rio Theater - Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2012-06-27 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA
- 2012-06-28 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA
- 2012-06-30 - McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA
- 2012-07-01 - McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA
- 2013-01-20 - Rock for Roe at The Pinhook - Durham, NC
- 2013-06-22 - The Bottletree - Birmingham, AL
- 2014-06-13 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
- 2020-02-21 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA
- 2021-09-26 - Musikfest Cafe - Bethlehem, PA
- 2022-11-18 - Vicar Street - Dublin, Ireland
- 2023-02-09 - Elevation 27 - Virginia Beach, VA
- 2023-02-17 - Musica - Akron, OH
- 2023-06-29 - Mercury Ballroom - Louisville, KY
Videos of this Song[]
Taking the Dative |
---|
Side One: "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" |
Ghana |
---|
Track list: "Golden Boy" • "Pure Gold" • "Papagallo" • "Song for John Davis" • "Stars Around Her" • "Going to Port Washington" • "Blood Royal" • "The Only Thing I Know" • "Raja Vocative" • "Hatha Hill" • "Going to Kirby Sigston" • "Please Come Home to Hamngatan" • "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life" • "Orange Ball of Peace" • "Standard Bitter Love Song #8" • "Chino Love Song 1979" • "Wrong!" • "Going to Jamaica" • "Alpha Gelida" • "Wild Palm City" • "The Anglo-Saxons" • "Flight 717: Going to Denmark" • "The Admonishing Song" • "Anti-Music Song" • "Going to Hungary" • "Earth Air Water Trees" • "Creature Song" • "Pure Sound" • "Going to Maine" • "Noctifer Birmingham" • "Leaving Home" |
The "Alpha" Series |
---|
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" |