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''The Sunset Tree'' is the ninth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2005 by 4AD. The album's songs revolve around the house John Darnielle grew up in and the people who lived there, including his mother, sister, step-father, friends, and enemies.〔http://4ad.com/artists/themountaingoats〕 ==Notes== While ''We Shall All Be Healed'' focused on Darnielle's years as a teenager involved with other methamphetamine users,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kylebarbour.org/tmg/wsabh.html )〕 ''The Sunset Tree'' focuses on his childhood, and a recurring theme is domestic violence.〔http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/music/mountaingoats"〕 The album title refers to a scene in Samuel Butler's ''The Way of All Flesh''〔http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5456-the-sunset-tree/〕 in which the character Theobald beats his son Ernest for being unable to pronounce a hard C when singing a hymn. The hymn, "The Tyrolese Evening Hymn," begins with the lines "Come, come, come, Come to the sunset tree." 〔http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sheetmusic/id/27703〕 In the album's liner notes, Darnielle writes: : :"Made possible by my stepfather, Mike Noonan (1940-2004): may the peace which eluded you in life be yours now :Dedicated to any young men and women anywhere who live with people who abuse them, with the following good news: :''you are going to make it out of there alive'' :''you will live to tell your story'' :''never lose hope''"〔http://www.themountaingoats.net/music/sunset.html〕 Many lyrics refer to Darnielle's abusive childhood – especially in the songs "This Year," "Dance Music," and "Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod." The tone of the album is somber, dealing with Darnielle's longing for escape and his feelings of powerlessness, building up to the song "Lion's Teeth," which Darnielle has described as a "revenge fantasy" in an introduction to a live performance of the song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-01-02 )〕 The album concludes with the two final songs "Love, Love, Love," in which Darnielle notes the virtue and folly of doing things for reasons of love, and "Pale Green Things," in which he recalls a time his stepfather took him out to watch horses at a racetrack. Darnielle closes the song and the album with a lyric about his sister calling him to inform him of his stepfather's death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sunset Tree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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