Lakeside View Apartments Suite - The Mountain Goats

Downtown north past the airport

A dream in switchgrass and concrete

Three gray floors of smoky windows

Facing the street

Michael pulls the blinds back up

Stares blankly at the intersection

Watching for the guy who’s got the angel dust

Crystal clear connection

Days like dominos

All in a line

We cheer for the home team every time

Lakeside View, Lakeside View

Lakeside View for my whole crew

Most nights now sleep in the kitchen

Keep my face cool on the floor

And John, John comes by to drop off his envelopes

Still playing postman after all these years

Pull down my army surplus jacket

Dig through some drawers to find the keys

Emerge transformed in a million years

From days like these

Under each eye little greasepaint smudge

You can’t judge us — you’re not the judge

Lakeside View, Lakeside View

Lakeside View for my whole crew

And just before I leave

I throw up in the sink

One whole life recorded

In disappearing ink

And Ray left a message thumbtacked to the door

I don’t even bother trying to read them anymore

Lakeside View Lakeside View,

Lakeside View for my whole crew