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We Shall All Be Healed, 2004
Written by John Darnielle
I think the Goats are the first artist to appear four times on this blog. I must be a superfan! The song title, of course, references Mark 5:13. "Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea." It's a metaphor for the narrator and his meth addict "evil spirits." Will he be sent back to the correctional facility where he came from, fitted for an orange jumpsuit? "I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts." But his better angels want to go where dragonflies glide and magnolias bloom.
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