Mountain Goats, The - Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds Lyrics

Is it just me or is the audio file for this track corrupted? Horrible scratching through out.

I heard it at first and thought my headphones were broken but I think it might be intentional

I feel like I come back to this song every month. Every month I'm more willing to forfeit more and more of something that I can't quite put words to.

The song is amazing but what's with that scratching sound?

Robert Burleson thought it was my phone, because it doesn’t sound intentional?

It is intentional, every version I found uploaded has it. I don’t mind it but I wish it would mix better it fucks my ears if I’m wearing earbuds

mellow!

What is with the audio glitches

Damn, great arrangement.

Making this the closing track was a missed opportunity

John Darnielle is such an impossible treasure what the fuck

Does the audio glitch for anyone else? It makes this borderline painful to listen to which sucks bc I love this song :(

Rosie Clarke same here, and idk why

It's that way on the CD, Bandcamp, and this Youtube clip right when he says "no one anticipates the *~rush*". I think the glitch is canon.

What's with the Moutain Goats and their connection to goth? Frist a song about Rozz Williams now Eldritch?

John Darnielle was personal friends with Williams, and was even involved with the West Coast "deathrock" scene back in the day. I think he's just a fan of Sisters of Mercy, so no personal connection to Eldritch, but there is one to Williams.

This song would be so much more enjoyable without the occasional scratchy noises

What IS that?

Omfg I thought my headphones were going out

Same, I know what you're talking about

I understand that it's about more than that, but I'm from near Leeds, and have moved away for university, and it kind of just reminds me of how grim the North of England can be but also how much more familiar and friendly. I don't know if I'll get away. I don't know if I want to.

Only if the way is clear, the road is closed, the damage's done and the course imposed..

He really did move back to Leeds though. I don't know if TMG knew this - I'd like to think they did. Or at least he always kept a place there... between Hamburg and somewhere in Spain.

This song is about him moving back to Leeds after college, seeing Leeds (and its music scene) both decaying and bland without any change in sight, and then forming the Sisters of Mercy. I'm pretty sure John knew.

@Bryce Pants That's nonsense. AE is not from Leeds, he moved there to go to college in the late 70s. Dropped out and formed TSOM and then went on to goth stardom, such as it is. Reasonably sure JD is using AE as a metaphor for all aging scenesters who move to the big city, and then move back to their home towns later in life, stink of failure clinging to them. It's just not particularly true in Andy Taylors actual life.

The First and Last and Always,
Andrew Eldritch...

Still can't tell but i think this is may be my favorite off Goths. Idk, it might be Unicorn Tolerance. Whatever. Its jubilant when it should be grave, grave when it should be jubilant, so it's well done. This album grew on me in a big way.

A good one.

andrew eldritch from sisters of mercy?

vic hernandez yes. The godfather of goth rock

ONE OF THE BEST GOTH ROCK BAND !!
VISITED MEXICO IN 2017, GREAT CONCERT !!

title of the year

Excellent.

Is this a song about Lemmy?

I don't think so. It mentions Motorhead, but Andrew Eldritch is in Sisters of Mercy

i feel ya

I initially thought this song was a sad rumination on the impossibility, no matter how hard one tries, of breaking one's own innate characteristics. But I also think it could be an oddly comforting thing, the fact that home always stays the same in certain macro ways and that you will always end up back home, no matter what you do when you break free and escape and travel the world and do whatever it is you do. You always end up moving back to Leeds. And I guess it depends on how you look at it- depressing, or strangely comforting.

I'm hearing TMBG + The Smiths. Think "Vicar In A Tutu" or "Girlfriend In A Coma".

I wonder if Eldritch himself has heard this.

id say thats a certainty

@Christie Malry chances are... he fucking hates it. Just a wild guess here.

I really hate the song that comes after this one on playlist

Still the best song of 2017.

listened through the album and only liked this one sadly

dewhi100 In time, it might sink in. I loved this when it first came out, but I disliked Rain in Soho. My fanaticism led me to buy the whole album, and personally I feel like the album's full course is a good trip, and while not every song is a hit - standalone or as the album, depending on your opinion - it's a super solid addition to the Mountain Goats canon.

I wanted to aim for a meaninful comment, but the truth is I just want to express my love of The Mountain Goats. It fills my soul.

THANK YOU BABY JESUS

Don't know who Andrew Eldritch is
Don't know jackshit about Leeds
This is even my first listen to a Mountain Goats album
But goddamn, I love this song

FruckFilms as someone whose moved away from Leeds and is soon returning back, this song just captures the mood surrounding it all. Leeds is a great place, but you can never really escape it as it is a place that never leaves you (both because of the pride from being from Leeds and the fact that most people don’t move away from there so there are big family units all in the same area so it’s inconvenient to move away). In the case of Andrew Eldritch, he is a musician who was apart of the Leeds Underground scene.

Check out the Sisters of Mercy, one of my all time favorite bands.

His somebody who doesn't exist when you don't see him.

andrew eldritch is the sisters of mercy, leeds is an former industrial golgotha that was the birthplace of more music than you can shake a stick at, it rains a lot

This song incorporates all of the strogest elements of JDs work from the last decade.

Goddamn this song is good

"There's indifference on the wind, but a faint gust of hope"

I find myself whispering this some days.

Bought the album. Every track is good, most are great. Shelved, Wear Black, and The GreyKing and the Silver Flame Attunement are probably my favorite tracks. Buy it now and do yourself a favor.

what is that glitch when he sings "no one anticipates the rush" just after 1:50? I hear it on the album, not just in this video

The Goats truly are the GOAT :D I'm so stoked for this!

Nice! Sounds like Belle and Sebastian

yeah for real, its like the saddest shit in most verses,, but makes me so happy and content,
just to be reminded that we all feel this way sometimes,, if you cat admit that, your a liar..

this is brilliant!

Saw John in Perth WA last Thursday, it really feels like his songs and stories he tells are just for you when you see the band play live.

Aus here too. Didn't get to see him. So annoyed. How was it?

A distinct whiff of Tiny Dancers here. I like it.

do kids these days even know who Andrew Eldritch is?

Dee Hughes they will now

Kids these days know everything what google knows

I didn't

my goth ass sure does

I sure as hell do

I just wrote a song called John Danielle used to be good.

Did you write a song in which you could spell?

Did the music of The Magnetic Fields have a baby with TMBG???? Great job Goats!!

leeds is a good city

n o g u i t a r s

No comp vocals

LEEDS! LEEDS! LEEDS! Marching On Together! ;)

Getting some Smiths vibes from this.

thx for taking mercy on my meaningless goff soul lads

I accidentally played two of this track on top of each other with about a 30 second delay in between and the beats synched up perfectly and the layering was absolutely lovely. It was so mesmerizing and I actually prefer it that way!

Julia Keeler Peck please post

There's indifference on the wind
But a faint gust of hope
At a club nobody goes to
With a musty velvet rope
Guys in Motörhead jackets
Who knew him way back when
Haven't raised a drink in years
But now meet up again

To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away
And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day

Nobody ever gets away
Even the best of us come back some day

To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

There's a rusted fog machine
In a concrete storage space
Letter-number combinations
With no meaning on it's face
They won't make these anymore
It's a wooden coach-n-four
No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door

No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for it's grave
There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave

No-one anticipates the rush
The breezy feeling of the faceless crush

At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

They don't throw him a parade
He just comes in on a train
One suitcase in his hand
And an old army backpack
From the second world war
From a Leipzig secondhand store

Pick the keys up from the agent
Everything's been taken care of
No big changes in the roadways
Since you've left that I'm aware of

A few old buildings gone to dust
And some new ones in the way
They'll look just like the old ones
When the winds have had their say

See the children bound for London, you'll all be back too
Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through

Come on boys that'll be enough
You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough

Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

Thank you!

this fucking BLOWS

In this shithole, Trump's America, we need new Mountain Goats more than anything. This album can't come out soon enough.

this is like the music where some lemony snickett character slowly molests and degrades a child.

is this what hipsters listen to

Another great song!! I knew we would be getting new Mountain Goats this year and once I saw this thing, I stopped everything I was doing!! Love it!!

All hail!

GUYS AAAHHHHH

The instrumentation on this is wonderful, as much as I love The Mountain Goats I never thought I'd be excited for the arrangements alone.

i'm so ecstatic. was nervous about the different musical direction this album's gonna go but i am surpisingly into it. praise be to the Goat. thanks JD.

Thematically and sonically similar to Pinklon, which is one of my favourite tMG tunes

It occurs to me now that this one could be called "Going to Leeds".

Bryce Rosenwald
he's always going somewhere

Bryce Rosenwald this kind of feels to me like an anti "going to" song, or the coda after a whole album of them.
At the book tour stop in Seattle, John said that the "going to" series is about planning to go somewhere, anywhere new and exciting where you just know your life will be better, or at least different. in this one it feels like Andrew is returning home because he realizes he can't escape where he came from or who he is. that's how I interpreted it anyways, like a foil to them or the inevitable conclusion

Troy M just stop.

desperately need you to come to vancouver

This is going to be such an awesome album.

C'mon John, Leeds is nice! It's not an inescapable poor man's London at all! (Also this song is soooo good)

This is like if 70's Britain came home from college to find his room has been turned into his dad's home office.

William Smythe it's on his Facebook if you can't find it anymore

Gorgeous lyricism. Not sure how I feel about the dance groove... not the mt goats usual fare so it'll take some getting used to.
Can't wait for the full release. Already have my tickets for the Seattle show :D

I love how the guy in the green jacket is tfw dude.

Tried Photoshopping feels guy into it, but I suck. Someone good at Photoshop, do this please.

Now this is real lyricism.

not what i hoped, but its isnt all that bad

what'd you hope?

guitars

he hoped he wouldn't have to move back to Leeds
but it isnt all that bad

I heard a live version just the other day, from a radio broadcast or something. I can't believe there's gonna be a new album, it seems like yesterday since Beat the Champ came out.

He's got an incredibly fast output when you look over his career. 16 studio albums, 23 EPs, 6 Cassettes, 5 split albums over about 26 years. Not including the unreleased numbers, lost tracks and other bands hes fronted/collaborated with. Seriously the mans output is insane!

The three years between Transcendental Youth and Beat the champ was one of the longer gaps of his career XD.

A fantastic book and a sure to be fantastic album, this is nothing if not the year of the goat.

Anubis113 Still my favourite album this year

Us mere mortals are unworthy. All hail the glory of the goats.

Just when I'm at my most hopeless, John Darnielle comes along and saves my soul. Praise be to the Goat.

Great hat.

Sean Belcher I hope you find a way to destroy the hopelessness someday. I love you!

When I find myself in times of trouble,
Father Darnielle comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds."

U goth John?

He's metal af

the best ever death metal band out of denton

so pumped for the new album. i considered getting the 3LP edition but the shipping is like 40$ so nah :/

Anybody else getting some serious TMBG vibes from this?

That explains why I'm so into this when I'm not usually the Mountain Goats type...

All Praise be to John F and John L

geediaitch As well as, for this song, John D.

What's tmbg?

Lizzi Huskey They Might Be Giants.

SO GOOD

In other news, is anyone having difficulty buying tickets for his upcoming tour? Trying to buy a ticket or two for a show in June but the ticket page is just a dead link. Sadbois 2017 :'(

It's possible that tickets for that show aren't on sale yet. Check the venue's website and it should tell you.

I had no trouble buying tickets for one in July, it may be a problem with your venue.

All Praise be to John D

Luke See hail him

Hail Satan

All hail West Texas

Hi, Joel.