tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post114398919843687976..comments2024-03-28T03:13:15.831-04:00Comments on Remarkable: The Mountain Goats' Fault Lines 1 (of 3)Geoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-1158026951171679732006-09-11T22:09:00.000-04:002006-09-11T22:09:00.000-04:00Well, on the one hand, I think of many Mountain Go...Well, on the one hand, I think of many Mountain Goats' songs as little stories rather than poems. But really, the reason I wrote it out as prose is that I don't want it to look line bad poetry. When people copy out lyrics they often put line breaks at the units of sense, at phrases or short sentences; this causes the lyrics to read like bad poetry because good poetry knows a thing or two about enjambment -- about an idea or thought or sentence crossing the line break in an interesting way. My college roomate wrote a poem that included the line "I go in search of God knows what" but he started a new line with the words "knows what"; it looked for a split-second like he was making a big claim and then you realized it was actually a very small one; it's a fun (Whedonesque) effect. Mountain Goats' songs are better than the line breaks I would pick for them would make them look, in short.Geoff Klockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-1158018470080492792006-09-11T19:47:00.000-04:002006-09-11T19:47:00.000-04:00this has v.little to do with your actual post, but...this has v.little to do with your actual post, but I feel it's worth mentioning that you have written out the song's lyrics in prose form, which I have rarely seen done before. I think this is important, in regards to you and how you are about the M.Goats, but I'm not sure I can give voice as to why yet.sara d. reisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229743478023552805noreply@blogger.com