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Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin Lyrics 16 years ago
I listened to the Letterman show and transcribed as best I could, here's what I got.

if you break these moth-wing feelings
powdery dust on your fingers
no we're not praying we're kneeling
hard enough to say you believe them
well how the heck you think you could beat them
at the same time that you are trying to be them
hard enough just to say you dont need it
when they chew it up you will still eat it
satellite satellite skin
just to knock just to say you wont visit
well everybody's willing to listen
to satellite satellite skin
you can say what you want you're forgiven
well happy fucking congratulations
well everyone everyone wins
just like being my own solar system
there were good things but they totally eclipsed them
o what the use o what the hell
(?) just as praised and completed
you can say what you want and not mean it
well no one really seems to be waiting
if you sweep up this mess ive created
nothing's left to show i existed
except satellite satellite skin
asking for a question
was it as easy to say then was actually done
do you even believe that
do you even believe that there's a race to be won?
done with these moth-wing feelings
I have seen them all
become satellite skin ~?
~? all those opinions get stacked in all those usual (?)spots
just to tell you I could not have seen through to the jist
of those unhappy happy accident

I couldn't figure out some parts, and did a little guess work.
corrections are welcome!

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