Pale Green Things Lyrics - The Sunset Tree - Mountain Goats

got up before dawn 

went down to the racetrack. 

riding with the windows down 

shortly after your first heart attack. 

you parked behind the paddock, 

cracking asphalt underfoot, 

coming up through the cracks 

pale green things 

pale green things 

we watched the horses run their workouts. 

you held your stopwatch in your left hand 

and a racing form beneath your arm, 

casting your gaze way out to no man's land. 

sometimes I'll meet you out there 

lonely and frightened. 

flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves 

pale green things 

pale green things 

my sister called at three a.m. 

just last december. 

she told me how you'd died at last, at last 

and that morning at the race track was one thing I remembered. 

I turned it over in my mind 

like a living chinese finger trap. 

seaweed and indiana sawgrass 

pale green things 

pale green things