Up The Wolves

there's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet
no matter where you live
there'll all ways be a few things maybe several things
that your gonna find really difficult to forgive

there's gonna come a day when you'll feel better
you'll rise up easy on that dayand float from branch to branch
lighter than the air
just when that day is comming who can say
who can say

your mothers have been absent
ever since we founded Rome
but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

we're gonna comandeer the local airwaves
to tell the neighbors what's going on
and they shake their headsand wag their boney fingers
in all the wrong directions
and by daybreak we'll be gone

i'm gonna get myself in fighting trim
scope out every angle of unfair advantage
i'm gonna bribe the officals
i'm gonna kill all the judges
it's gonna take you people years
to recover from all of the damage

our mothers have all been absent
ever since we founded Rome
but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home!

-The Mountain Goats from The Sunset Tree