makeout song of the day

"Dilaudid" by The Mountain Goats

It just came up on shuffle in my itunes and ... damn.

Just listen to--don't watch--this video (it's okay up until the very end where the driver/videographer turns the camera on himself, killing the mood of the song):



This video from their live performance at Seattle's Triple Door doesn't do it justice (no cello, no sense of urgency in the vocals like in the album version), but it's interesting to hear/see the live approach:



The lyrics are good, too.