Good Morning, Captain

It closes Spiderland at 7:38, or 7:41 on the 2014 remaster. It has a two-chord guitar riff and a jerky drumbeat; Pajo calls it his favorite on the album, McMahan and Walford wrote the lyrics in the studio, and McMahan became physically ill from yelling over the guitars in the last chorus. The lyrics concern a shipwrecked sea captain, and some critics read it as a tribute to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which the band denied; Peschek compared it to "Stairway to Heaven", minus the bombast. Drowned in Sound's Robert Cooke wrote in 2014 that the final bars, with McMahan screaming, are as important a reference point for 1990s emo and 2000s screamo as Rites of Spring or Sunny Day Real Estate. It was reportedly on the 1995 Kids soundtrack but not in the film. Setlist.fm counts 69 performances out of 98 setlists. We found no verified covers or samples.