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Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat Lyrics 17 years ago
the song is a little bit less of missing out on life, and a little bit more of rushing through it. where it says:
"Looking towards the future
We were begging for the past"
i think he is trying to express that you should live each day to the fullest because you can never go back.
his reference to building the damn, is saying he regretted things in his life that he now wishes he didn't do because they were naive and purposeless.
the end is about how it is now far too late to go back. and he wishes he could because now he has the experience of life he needed to realize what he had done in the past.
the regrets he had were most likely his drug habits. Issac is a much different man now, but it is too late to go back and fix the things he had done and wasted his time on.

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State Radio – Heady Riser Lyrics 17 years ago
the song is clearly about the unlawful rises of power in the world.
but there is also a part talking about how we react=
where the chorus saying:
"And they come for the leaders but we say we never lead
they come for the believers but we say we never believe" ect.
is referring to how we don't stick up for others, and just say we are not what you are looking for.
then where it states:
"And theyll come for us theyll be no one left to stand"
it is saying how we didn't stand up for anybody so nobody is left to stand for us.

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