#absolute lithops effect

the mountain goats | absolute lithops effect

"I am at this point almost ten years removed from Taboo VI: The Homecoming, and my range has increased: Some of the songs I write are just songs, and some are songs that might have been poems, and some are still poems disguised as songs. Although the tune of "Absolute Lithops Effect" is more complex than anything I might have attempted on the early tapes, I'd put its lyric in that third category, with an added chance element, which pleases me—I don't think "waiting" and "wanting" were both in the original draft. I think I wrote down one, and saw on the page that it might also be the other, and said to myself: "Let's keep them both." Accidents are my favourite strategy. You can always rely on an accident."