Shadow Song letra

if you get there before me, will you save me a seat?
if you get there before me, would you save me a seat?
but if i never get there at all,
would you leave the seat empty?

if you get there before me, will you light us a fire?
if you get there before me, will you light us a fire?
but if i never show,
will you watch the embers glow?
would you keep the fire burning?

this is a song for you, in case i never make it through to where you are.
this is a song for you, in case i never make it through to where you are.

The Mountain Goats - Letras

• "Bluejays and Cardinals"
• [Forgotten title] (Alpha Compunction)
• [Forgotten title] (John 4:35)
• [Forgotten title] (Kittens in Mittens)
• [Untittled] (Repetition)
• 02-75
• 1 John 4:16
• 1 Samuel 15:23
• 15-1
• 15-2
• 25
• Abide With Me
• Absolute Lithops Effect
• Adair
• Adultery
• Against Agamemnon
• Against Pollution
• Agemo's Hoops
• Alabama Nova
• Alagemo
• All Up The Seething Coast
• Alpha Aquae
• Alpha Desperation March
• Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina
• Alpha in Tauris
• Alpha Incipiens
• Alpha Negative
• Alpha Omega
• Alpha Rats Nest
• Alpha Sun Hat
• Alphabetizing
• Alphonse Mambo
• Ambivalent Seascape Y
• Amy A.K.A. Spent Gladiator 1
• An Inscription at Salonae
• Anti-Music Song
• Are You Cleaning Off the Stone?
• Autoclave
• Azo Tle Nelli In Tlalticpac?
• Baboon
• Bad Priestess
• Bad Waves
• Badger Song
• Balance
• Baltimore (was: Song For Prince Edward III)
• Beach House
• Beat the Devil
• Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes
• Black Molly
• Blood Royal
• Blue Berry Frost
• Blues in Dallas
• Born Ready (was: Know the Way)
• Brave
• Brilliant Disguise
• Broom People
• Burned My Tongue
• Calcutta
• California Song
• Cao Dai Blowout
• Carmen Cicero
• Casetino's Nursery
• Cathedral Song
• Chanson Du Bon Chose
• Cheshire County
• Chilean Fire Barrel
• Chinese House Flowers
• Chinese Rifle Song
• Chino Love Song 1979
• Cobra Tattoo
• Cobscook Bay
• Coco-Yam Song
• Cold Milk Bottle
• Collapsing Stars
• Color in Your Cheeks
• Commandante
• Cotton
• Counterfeit Florida Plates
• Counting Song For Bitter Children
• Crane
• Creature Song
• Crows
• Cry For Judas
• Cubs In Five
• Cut Your Hair
• Cutter
• Damn These Vampires
• Dance Music
• Dance the Night Away
• Deianara Crush
• Deuteronomy 2:10
• Dilaudid
• Dinu Lipatti's Bones
• Dirty Old Town
• Distant Stations
• Doctor Wu
• Don't Take the Dogs Away
• Down Here
• Downtown Seoul
• Duke Ellington
• Dutch Orchestra Blues
• Early Spring
• Earth Air Water Trees
• Edward Munch
• Eleven Bands
• Elijah
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Ending the Alphabet
• Escape to Wild Palm City
• Etiquette Song
• Evening in Stalingrad
• Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace
• Faithless Baccant Song
• Family Happiness
• Faultlines
• Feed This End
• First Few Desperate Hours
• Fit Alpha Vi
• Flashing Lights
• Flight 717: Going to Denmark
• Flower Song
• FM
• Four New Trees
• Fresh Berries for You
• Fresh Cherries in Trinidad
• Full Flower
• Furniture Store
• Game Shows Touch Our Lives
• Genesis 19:1-2
• Genesis 3:23
• Genesis 30:3
• Get Lonely
• Ghosts
• Going to Alaska
• Going to Bangkor
• Going to Bogata
• Going to Bolivia
• Going to Bridlington
• Going to Bristol
• Going to Buffalo
• Going to Chino
• Going to Cleveland
• Going to Dade County
• Going to France
• Going to Georgia
• Going to Hungary
• Going to Jamaica
• Going to Japan
• Going to Kansas
• Going to Kirby Sigston
• Going to Lebanon
• Going to Lubbock
• Going to Maine
• Going to Malibu
• Going to Marrakesh
• Going to Mexico
• Going to Michigan
• Going to Monoco
• Going to Morocco
• Going to Norwalk
• Going to Palestine
• Going to Port Washington
• Going to Queens
• Going to Reykjavik
• Going to San Diego
• Going to Santiago
• Going to Scotland
• Going to Some Damned English City
• Going to Spain
• Going to Spirit Lake
• Going to Tennesee
• Going to Utrecht
• Going to Wisconsin
• Golden Boy
• Golden Jackal Song
• Good Girlfriend
• Gravedigger
• Grendel's Mother
• Half Dead
• Handball
• Harlem Roulette
• Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod
• Hatha Hill
• Have To Explode
• Hebrews 11:40
• Heights
• Hello There Howard
• Hello, Old Rabbit
• Heretic Pride
• High Doses #2
• High School Confidential
• Historiography
• History of the Church (Part 1)
• Home Again Garden Grove
• Horseradish Road
• Hotel Road
• I Corinthians 13:8-10
• I Hear the Planets
• I Know You've Come To Take My Toys Away
• I Love You, Let's Light Ourselves On Fire
• I Meant Every Word I Said in New Delhi
• I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
• I Will Grab You By the Ears
• I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• I've Got the Sex
• Ice Blue
• Ice Cream, Cobra Man
• Idylls Of The King
• If England Were What England Seems, Then We Would Only Have Our Dreams
• If You See Light
• In Corolla
• In Memory Of Satan
• In the Cane Fields
• In the Hidden Places
• Infidelity
• Insurance Fraud #2
• International Small Arms Traffic Blues
• Isaiah 45:23
• Island Garden Song
• It Froze Me
• It's All Here In Brownsville
• Itzcuintli-Totzli Days
• Jaipur
• Jam Eater Blues
• Jeff Davis County Blues
• Jenny
• Keep It On Your Mind
• Korean Bird Paintings
• Lab Rat Blues
• Lakeside View Apartments Suite
• Leaving Home
• Lemon
• Let the Dogs Come Out
• Letter From a Motel (or if you prefer: Letter from the Alpha Motel (or if you prefer : Letter from the Alpha Privative Motel))
• Letter From Belgium
• Linda Blair Was Born Innocent
• Lion's Teeth
• Lonesome Surprise
• Love Cuts the Strings
• Love Hymn to Aphrodite
• Love Love Love
• Magpie
• Maize Stalk Drinking Blood
• Malevolent Cityscape X
• Malted Milk
• Masher
• Matthew 25:21
• Maybe Sprout Wings
• Memories
• Milk Song
• Milkcrate
• Million
• Minnesota
• Mole
• Moon And Sand
• Moon Over Goldsboro
• Move (Chicago 196?)
• My Favorite Things
• Narakaloka
• Neon Orange Glimmer Song
• New Britain
• New Math
• New Monster Avenue
• New Star Song
• New World Emerging Blues
• Night Light
• Night of the Mules
• Nine Black Poppies
• No Children
• No Surprises
• No, I Can't.
• Noche del Guajolote
• Noctifer Birmingham
• November Love Song
• Oceanographer's Choice
• Old College Try
• Omega Blaster
• One Fine Day
• One Frozen River
• One Winter At Point Alpha Privative
• Onions
• Ontario
• Orange Ball of Hate
• Orange Ball of Love
• Orange Ball of Pain
• Orange Ball of Peace
• Original Air-Blue Gown
• Oslo 1888
• Pale Green Things
• Palmcorder Yajna (was: Sacrifice)
• Papagallo
• Peacocks
• Pennsylvania Dutch Treat
• Pet Politics
• Philippians 3:20-21
• Pigs That Ran Straightway Into The Water, Triumph Of
• Pink And Blue
• Pirates (so long lonely avenue)
• Please Come Home to Hamngatan
• Poltergeist
• Prana Ferox
• Process of Elimination
• Psalms 40:2
• Pseudothyrum Song
• Pure Crystal
• Pure Gold
• Pure Heat
• Pure Honey
• Pure Intentions
• Pure Love
• Pure Milk
• Pure Money
• Pure Sound
• Quetzalcoatl Comes Through
• Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums
• Quetzalcoatl is Born
• Quito
• Radical Evil Song
• Raid On Entebbe
• Raja Vocative
• Red Choral Diamond Spray
• Resonant Bell World
• Riches and Wonders
• Rivers of Babylon
• Rockin' Rockin' Pet Store
• Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods
• Romans 10:9
• Running Away With What Freud Said
• Sail On
• San Bernadino
• Sax Rohmer #1
• Scotch Grove
• See America Right
• Seeing Daylight
• Sendero Luminoso Verdadero
• Seneca's Trick Mirror
• Sept 19th Triple X Love! Love!
• Shadow Song
• Sheket
• Short Song About the 10 Freeway
• Shower
• Sinaloan Milk Snake Song
• Slimy Rich White Bastards
• Slow West Vultures
• Snow Crush Killing Song
• Snow Song
• So Desperate
• Solomon Revisited
• Some Swedish Trees
• Somebody Else's Parking Lot In Santa Cruz
• Something Blue
• Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
• Song For an Old Friend
• Song For Cleomenes
• Song For Dana Plato
• Song For Dennis Brown
• Song For God
• Song For John Davis
• Song For Lonely Giants
• Song For Mark and Joel
• Song For Roger Maris
• Song For the Julian Calendar
• Song For Tura Santana
• Song From the Shoreline
• Source Decay
• Southwood Plantation Road
• Spent Gladiator 2
• Spilling Toward Alpha
• Standard Bitter Love Song #1
• Standard Bitter Love Song #4
• Standard Bitter Love Song #5
• Standard Bitter Love Song #6
• Standard Bitter Love Song #7
• Standard Bitter Love Song #8
• Star Dusting
• Stars Around Her
• Store (was: Aisle)
• Straight Six
• Sun Song
• Sure
• Sure Do Love You Baby, But I Can't Do 60 No More
• Tahitian Ambrosia Maker
• Tallahassee
• Tampa
• Teenage World
• Tell Me On a Sunday
• Terror Song
• Thanks For the Dress
• That
• That Hippolytine Feeling
• The Admonishing Song
• The Anglo-Saxons
• The Bad Doctor
• The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
• The Black Ice Cream Song
• The Car Song
• The Coroner's Gambit
• The Cow Song
• The Day the Aliens Came (or: Hawaiian Feeling)
• The Diaz Brothers
• The Doll Song
• The Fall of the Star High School Running Back
• The Garden Song
• The Hot Garden Stomp
• The House That Dripped Blood
• The Irony Engine
• The Lady From Shanghai
• The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life
• The Last Limit of Bhakti
• The Legend Of Chavo Guerrero
• The Mad Clarinet
• The Mess Inside
• The Monkey Song
• The Moon
• The Moon Song
• The New Potatoes
• The Only Thing I Know
• The Pieman
• The Plague
• The Rain Song
• The River Song
• The Sign
• The Water Song
• The Window Song
• The Young Thousands
• Then the Letting Go
• There Is Power In a Union
• There Will Always Be an Ireland
• There Will Be No Divorce
• Third Snow Song
• This Magic Moment
• This Year
• Tollund Man
• Torch Song
• Transcendental Youth
• Transjordanian Blues
• Trash
• Treetop Song
• Tulsa Imperative
• Twin Human Highway Flares
• Two Thousand Seasons
• Until I Am Whole
• Up the Wolves
• US Mill
• Used to Haunt
• Waco
• Warm Lonely Planet
• Water Song II
• Waving at You
• We Have Seen the Enemy
• We Were Patriots
• Weekend In Western Illinois
• West Country Dream
• White Cedar
• Whole Wide World
• Wild Palm City (or: Within You, Without You)
• Wild Sage
• Wishing the House Would Crash
• Woke Up New
• World Cylinder
• Wrong!
• Yam, The King of Crops
• Yoga
• You or Your Memory
• You're In Maya
• You're So Vain
• Young Caesar 2000
• Your Belgian Things