The Mountain Goats, “Going to Georgia”
The thing is about this song, the thing is about this song, uh, when, I mean I’m still a young man, I’m permanently a young man no matter how I start to look I’m still 20, right, so uhm, but when you are a young writer, boys get this idea that to really, to really show a woman the depth and purity of your love, what you have to do is something drastic and stupid, right, and uh and young writers think it’d be really intense to have a guy always harm himself real bad, and then you know I tell these stories, and so I was a young writer once and so here’s a song about a guy who travels someplace with a gun.
