| Modest Mouse – We've Got Everything Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I am a huge Modest Mouse fan and Brock's lyrics have always shown the meaningless he sees with everything. In the song "The View" from Good News a verse goes: "For every invention made how much time did we save? We're not much farther than we were in the cave." The irony is that somebody who sees so much meaningless in the world vests so much time and energy describing that meaningless. Over the last few years Brock has come to express this irony through sarcasm in his music. That sarcasm shines through in this song. Before General Relativity, Newton's laws of Gravity were seen as definite yet had holes. 80 years ago Einstien declared light speed a constant yet today there are Scientists that debate that. There is debate about dark energy and whether or not it is real. Point is even within Science there are different schools of thought and everybody thinks that their thinking is correct. We look at our ipods and miniture cell phones of today and picture how in the near future they will be smaller with more memory, yet we still haven't even returned to the moon. There are all sorts of futurists proposing how the future is going to look however most past futurists were wrong and those who were right were for the most part lucky. Yet Brock mocks complacency and it's stupid to stop trying. The point is well....there is no point which is what the point of this song is, if that makes any sense! =P |
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| Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song gives me chills because I have been listening to alot of Moest Mouse. When Brock refers to the jail bit he's refering to the time when he got arrested for attempted murder, look it up. When the ocean met the sky is a reference that was made off "Teeth like God's shoeshine" from Lonesome Crowded West. "When Time and life shook hands and said goodbye" refers to The Moon and Antarctica, the old album cover had man shaking the hand of the divine. There is alot of other references, but this album is basically about a matured Brock condeming his previous revelations. Sure Issac is a genius and has come up with very clever material, but like this song and entire album states, in the end it does not matter. He has lost of alot of people in his life and knowing the answers to time and space can not bring them back. |
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| Modest Mouse – Teeth Like God's Shoeshine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is about lobbyist and dishonest business men that have successfully destroyed honest business practices. When the song states: "Well, a rattlesnake up in Buffalo, Montana He bit the leg of the old sheriff Ha! That boy fell down on his harelip" It compares big business people to snakes that have taken out the sheriff and the laws of the land. Without unions, job security and honest business the country falls apart. Thus the part where the song refers to the malls becoming ghost towns. Like old westerns, with the sheriff gone, all accountability goes out the window. While it is easy to rob people who have nobody defending them, obviously it cannot go on forever because there is only so much you could steal from a broken populous. So by the end of the song the days of careless capitalism is over, and the economy collapses, leaving the dishonest businessman bankrupt on selling as is referred to later in the album, leaving no one spared. |
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| Modest Mouse – Wild Packs of Family Dogs Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The wild pack of family dogs could also refer to social workers splitting up a dysfunctional family. The sister being eaten up could refer to her being eaten up by the foster home system. Is satrical way, Brock may be suggesting for "saving" the kids, the social workers will be rewarded. | |
| Modest Mouse – Wild Packs of Family Dogs Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The wild pack of family dogs could also refer to social workers splitting up a dysfunctional family. The sister being eaten up could refer to her being eaten up by the foster home system. Is satrical way, Brock may be suggesting for "saving" the kids, the social workers will be rewarded. | |
| Cake – No Phone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Jeeez, I know that this does not go for everybody here, but maybe some of you should get jobs. Liike the song, I've been on fire making good money and doing well, but I go on call every third week at my job, and should be available at anytime. I often get called and have to wake up at all hours on weekends and run into the Office for god knows what. This song is about the daily grind of overworked Americans. It's quite a straight forward song if you work all day and night. | |
| Cake – No Phone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Jeeez, I know that this does not go for everybody here, but maybe some of you should get jobs. Liike the song, I've been on fire making good money and doing well, but I go on call every third week at my job, and should be available at anytime. I often get called and have to wake up at all hours on weekends and run into the Office for god knows what. This song is about the daily grind of overworked Americans. It's quite a straight forward song if you work all day and night. | |
| Modest Mouse – A Different City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Alot of context in this song: Through the cracks in the wall Slow motion for all Dripped out of the bars Someone smart said nothin’ at all Cracks in the wall gets referred to as bars in the line after the next. Goes with the paper-thin wall song a few tracks down. Basically All these "well off" smart people living together in an appartment complex can hear one an others mouthing off relatively smart comments but meaningless all the less. The walls are bars which we conifine are lives to and everybody is going nowhere fast which is slow-motion for all. The last lines of "I don't know but I've been told..." refers to the fact that many people waste this life working and in isolation but hopefully we won't be too stupid to waste the next life. |
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| Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Wow I'm listening to this song with headphones. Anybody else notice that the tambourines in this song song an awful like a cowboy in cowboy boots coming down the street? Later in the song the drum beat then sounds a hell of like a horse coming down the road progressivly faster. | |
| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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within the context of the song I believe the line: "I know where you're from, but where do you belong?" is a question posed in the first person, such as the person speaking in the song knows where a specific person is from but does not know where that person fits into the narrator's life. |
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| Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Holy shit this whole reincarnation thing makes perfect sence. I do not need you to tell me that I am not a cat Cats are said to have nine lives.....but then again I don't know what I've been told ;) |
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| Local H – P.J. Soles Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The song is about our obsessions. Scott was obsessed and was fasinated with her when she was a young and atractive upcoming star. Later after all that faded and she dissapeared out of the spotlight he still had the memories and how she made him feel even though he had no chance with her. Yet he says that "you seemed to always understand" as in his fantasies all is good. This is why he refers to the thought of her as being the darkest place inside of him because the time would better be pent on current relationships rather than faded fantasies. | |
| Local H – What Would You Have Me Do? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Personally, coming from a small town like Scott I know where he's coming from with these lyrics. To this day the song still gives me chills. I don't believe this song is about killing somebody, the parts of the song that refer to death refer to losing a part of yourself. A common theme in Local H songs is moving to the city after growing up in a small town community mentality. Many of my friends who have moved to better themselves have only moved back months later in failure. As someone who is currently working on moving to the city it is as Scott is speaking to me personally in this song. The song is pretty straight forward except when it comes to the second part of the song: Hold tight It's New years Eve we'll be cold tonight Kill the heat And shut out all the lights And cut the phone line too Alright We don't need nothing but cyanide Pulled out teeth won't be identified What would you have me do? You got it New Years Eve refers to the end of an era, and the start of a New Year full of new resolutions which often go unforfilled. In desperation to make it the you have to cut off all ties from your past, not dwell on it and move on. However, your new life is so radically different from your hometown's that you have to "cut off all the heat, and turn off all the lights" as in cutting off ties back home and the warmth and security it provided. The whole cyinide and pulled out teeth remark refers to the fact that the end result is a cold process in which the people you left behind will no longer recognize you. All points in the song leading up this verse all describe the stress being put on changing yourself and if you fail you'll be the laughing stock of the town. |
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