| Modest Mouse – Exit Does Not Exist Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I've always found this song to be about the "morning after" or "crash" of some drug or alcohol trip. Not so much as a form of love or relationship song. Due to its complete stream of consciousness presentation of the lyrics I’ve always considered this one of the more amusing and better songs on Long Drive. It really seems plausible that Brock could have written this song on some morning in September after one such come down. Getting back, this song is actually quite funny; it starts out wit him looking at a picture of him and someone else and it seems familiar to him. But as he gets to thinking about it more and his mind sorts out the previous events he finds that he can’t even remember the event associated with the picture and even the picture at all. This is actually amusing because it is a common occurrence. If anybody’s ever been to some form of party or something and brought a camera while on a mind-altering substance. It isn’t too implausible to develop the pictures a week later and realize that some person in a number of photos can’t even be remembered. Its funny how many times I’ve woken up with people’s numbers in my phone whom I still can’t remember. Also, the instrumentals on this are awesome! |
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| Modest Mouse – Beach Side Property Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I really enjoy the kind of irony behind this song. It first talks about the general expansion to the shorelines for the "better views and close relaxing sounds" and how the shores are pissed and have decided to start "moving back to the sea." Whenever I hear this song I always reminds me of people, particularly in California, who build their houses near cliffs on the shorelines. Then a few years later the cliffs erode and the houses tumble down, and after cleanup new ones are built a few feet back. The song basically personifies the earth, making it a thinking, feeling being. When its encroached upon it gets angry and chooses basically what can be considered suicide because it desperately does not want to become subject to a restrictive "plumbing life." This goes in with the theme of the lament of urbanization so prevalent in many of Brocks songs. This song can also be considered much like that of Custom Concern or Cowboy Dan in many respects. A good song, and Kidss Bop is the spawn of satin. |
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