| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Issac Brock is upset with the process of natural selection and evolution. He doesn't want to die and he's angry at the way life works. He will eventually die and be replaced by his offspring - this is what "A lifelong walk to the same exact spot." refers to. Instead of being able to live for thousands of years, continually improving himself, his only option is to have a child that is born knowing nothing, just as he did. This is the "exact same spot". I understand and can identify with his sentiment - it certainly IS frustrating that we will have to die after a short amount of time. His argument seems a bit childish to me - it's not always a walk to the same spot: mutations as well as knowledge that's recorded and passed across generations give mechanisms provide incremental improvement. Plus, if it weren't for the engines of evolution, natural selection, and mutation, then we never would have gotten to appreciate all the 'stubborn beauty.' I really hope this song isn't political, in my opinion that would weaken its meaning considerably. |
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| Minus the Bear – The Game Needed Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| While I'm working full time for a corporation, Jake Snider is having awesome sexytime and making awesome guitar grooves. Damn him! | |
| Minus the Bear – Burying Luck Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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TLDR: This song is about a guy dreaming about killing a close friend of his and feels regret about it. Later, that close friend "takes" his girlfriend. -- The song is split into two halves divided by the line "This dream fades into night." The first half is about a dream/nightmare the singer has. The second half is about reality. In the dream, someone close to the narrator has died. I'm going to call him the man in the hole. They are digging his grave and placing him in it. The refrain makes it sound like the singer killed the man in the hole and is now feeling regret. I'm unsure of the relationship between the singer and the man in the hole - the man is "his luck", but he "smoked up all [my] income". "My better days, his for the take." It sounds like he was a close friend that would always take advantage of the singer. In the second half of the song, the singer wakens from his dream. The man in the hole is alive. The singer's girlfriend has left him for the man in the hole. The singer is sad and blames the man in the hole for being a manipulative fellow that used careful planning in order to 'take' her. How does it all fit together? I don't know, but maybe there's a clue in that in the first line, he's having a 'nightmare', but at the end of it it's a "dream." Anyway, I feel I'm missing a bunch.. please chime in! |
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| Modest Mouse – Bury Me with It Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about euthanasia. He uses many metaphors to ask to be killed if if he is incapable of conscious thought or expression but is still living through artifical means. "If the party's over, if the fun has to end, will you do this for me my friend.." His babbling at the end represents him losing coherent thought. This is followed by the abrupt ending of the song which represents his life ending as he willed it to be. |
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