Attention All Pickpockets

Attention All Pickpockets
Album	Letter from Belgium
Released	2004
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:21
Previous track	"Nova Scotia"

Attention All Pickpockets is the third song on the single Letter from Belgium.

Lyrics

In comes you, not the same person I knew
Looking roughly the same but something hungry getting restless in your brain

Hey hey hey hey hey

So there I go, not the same person that you used to know
Peeking through the fish-eye lens at you

And the coronet blows
Where the oleander grows
And us two, not the same people that our old friends knew

And so down the street, you head, in the high summer heat
White long sleeved Oxford pushed up to just before your elbows

Black pumps and a medium length black skirt
Eating a path through the dark damp Earth
I hope they've got plenty of money where you're going

And the coronet blows
Where the oleander grows
And us two, not the same people that our old friends knew

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "The lyric turns out, actually, to be a study for the song Dilaudid. Same people." -- 2007-06-17 - Zoop - Farm Sanctuary - Watkins Glen, NY

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2007-06-17 - Zoop - Farm Sanctuary - Watkins Glen, NY
• 2008-11-07 - Theater of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
• 2009-11-14 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
• 2010-03-13 - Harvest of Hope Festival - St. Augustine, FL
• 2011-06-26 - Rhino's Youth Media Center & All-Ages Club - Plan-It-X Fest - Bloomington, IN
• 2011-07-13 - 1982 Bar - Gainesville, FL
• 2012-04-19 - Benefit to Defeat Amendment One - Motorco - Durham, NC
• 2012-10-18 - House of Blues - Boston, MA
• 2015-04-19 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
• 2015-05-31 - Amoeba Records - San Francisco, CA
• 2015-09-12 - Maximum Ames Festival - First United Methodist Church - Ames, IA
• 2015-11-14 - The Green Room - Newstalk - Dublin, Ireland
• 2015-11-23 - Heliogàbal - Barcelona, Spain