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Artist: The Mountain Goats
Canonical path: /the-mountain-goats/letter-from-a-motel-or-if-you-prefer-letter-from-the-alpha-motel-or-if-you-prefer-letter-from-the-alpha-privative-motel
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Letter From a Motel (or if you prefer: Letter from the Alpha Motel (or if you prefer : Letter from the Alpha Privative Motel))
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Letter From a Motel (or if you prefer: Letter from the Alpha Motel (or if you prefer : Letter from the Alpha Privative Motel))
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the beams we used to build our house are breaking at last.
the building will not hold together very much longer.
my arms are young, and they can do the work if called upon to do so.
but the house itself has weakened and it's tilting on its axis.
in the picture that you sent, i could see the windows getting soft.
and i could see the heat had gotten straight out of hand.
and i knew that none of this is what you'd been meaning to send along.
i did not mean to say what i'm saying now if we're gonna talk about what intentions were.
but the house itself is weak, very weak,
though you and our three daughters believe in what you want to believe.
from where i stand stability is everything.
in the room i'm standing in stability is everything.
and in this world, in this world stability is everything.
from where i'm standing right now stability is everything.
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