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Dar Williams - February
https://youtu.be/NGS8aZvAxpQ

This is a song about a relationship ending, from the perspective of a woman in denial. It's just shy of four minutes, and the verses complement each other perfectly.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
https://youtu.be/T0spQCw35D4

This song is very rythmic and hymn-like. This is the platonic ideal of what a song should be imo.

Fatty Spins - Doin your mom

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Fatty Spins - Doin your mom

YEAH YOU KNOW WE STRAIGHT

Fuck it, another Dar Williams song because I'm fucking crying over it.

https://youtu.be/BE5YzRr9yPo

mewithoutYou - In a Market Dimly Lit

https://youtu.be/3N8UTx2LlI4

The bird that plucked the olive leaf
Came circling like a record round the spindle of my mind
Where the needles worn the grooves too deep
And scratched the wax thats blistered from the heat besides
From any movement in the room
If my cat walked by? The arm skips!
But to my surprise, my interrupting cat improved
A sound already so severely compromised

Where the needles worn the grooves too deep

Im a donkeys jaw on a desert dune
Beside the bush that Moses saw
That burned and yet was not consumed
She's the silver coin I lost
Im the sheep who slipped away
We pray with fingers crossed but you listen patiently anyway

I wrote a little song for you
With a melody Id borrowed put to words that didnt rhyme
To repeat what you already knew
As stones thrown at your window tap in syncopated time
You kept the distance out of fear youd break
But what goods a single windchime hanging quiet all alone
If the music our collisions make
Could be a sound that turns the-road-that-leads-us-back-home into Home?

The music our collisions make

I had a rusty spade but Im not the fighting sort
If I was Samson, Id have found that harlots blade
And cut my own hair short
Then, in a market dimly lit
Id come casually to pay
You see my coins are counterfeit but you accept them anyway

So spare me your goodbyes
Your waving-handkerchief-goodbyes
Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side
Ill spare you my goodbyes
The truth belongs to god
The mistakes were mine

There are a lot of great Mountain Goats songs, and I may post some more in this thread. But this one really sums up what it's all about.
https://youtu.be/4mDfYIxqdWY

https://youtu.be/nOb5vdqv61s

AJJ - Back Pack

https://youtu.be/VesAXrGl7gg

High Highs - Open Season

https://youtu.be/FCySSeANvIc

Blues Saraceno - Run on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVjOEFBuc0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE-UIbpag3I

Solange - Cranes in the Sky

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qrinhNnOM