The Mountain Goats - Cold at Night
Song of the Day
Minnesota Public Radio
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Song of the Day is “Cold at Night” from The Mountain Goats’ album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, out November 7.
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| 0:00.0 | Let yourself go in the current. |
| 0:15.0 | Only rise and fall is the angles allow |
| 0:21.5 | Finally make a break for the surface |
| 0:27.0 | Breathe in the sweet air of the hearing now |
| 0:32.8 | Wake up in the arms of the earth |
| 0:36.8 | Fully present at the second birth |
| 0:39.9 | Well, the first thing you learn is how strong you can be if you have to |
| 0:44.0 | And the next thing you learn is how cold it can get at night |
| 0:49.1 | Let the waves break where they have to break |
| 0:58.5 | Let the people make ready to approach the throne |
| 1:04.4 | Two are going to stumble along the way |
| 1:10.0 | One is going to stumble along the way |
| 1:15.6 | One is going to go up alone |
| 1:19.6 | Fire's gathering on a distant peak |
| 1:22.6 | Let me get some sleep before I speak Well the first thing you learn is how far you can go with no gas in the tin. |
| 1:28.3 | And the next thing you'll learn is how cold it can get at night. |
| 1:33.3 | Light be low. |
| 1:36.3 | But this much I know, the first thing you'll be the last thing to go. Sharpen sticks and stab at the tide pools |
| 2:02.6 | Picture camp as close as we can to shore |
| 2:08.6 | Nobody thought to carry a compass |
| 2:13.6 | It's not the 19th century anymore |
| 2:20.0 | On the third day you said you felt sick |
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