| Modest Mouse – Spitting Venom Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| A lot of these lyrics are wrong. They're written in the liner notes when you buy the CD. For example the line is "We walked real stiff and our canes hit the ground," not "We walked real stiff and I came inside the ground" | |
| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just read EtchedInCold's response. I agree with a lot of that. I don't think this song is about politics. Though Isaac is insightful enough, and writes about universal human themes enough, that they could certainly be applied to politics. Note that Carbon's Anniversary is on the same album as Spitting Venom. Which I think is definitely a post-relationship/break-up song. I see Carbon's Anniversary as the bitter "hate you fuck you I hope you die, you screwed me over" song about the ex, and Spitting Venom as the "I want to hate you but I hope everything turns out OK" song about the ex. Also I think Little Motel is very possibly about the same ex, it's the most sympathetic, more of, "I'm sorry and I hope you're alright and it's better this way." Just my two cents. I tend to think that many of Modest Mouse's songs are about past relationships, and this album is no exception. @CarbonStealer: I'm pretty sure the line at the end is, "you will find out we were *based* in carbon" |
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| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this is a very bitter break-up type song directed at an ex-girlfriend or ex-lover. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet; I didn't see it in the 2 out of 6 total pages of comments that I've read so far. I think the "parting of the sensory" refers to a drifting in closeness between two people. "There's no work in walking and it fueled the talk," I think is a reference to a specific event that probably happened with him and his ex. As in they took a walk and talked things over, and he's saying it took little enough work to walk that it fueled their conversation/hostility/passion/whatever. "We placed our chips in all the right spots but still lost" I think is a reference to each person making an effort to sustain the relationship but still fucking it up. Same concept as the line "We pulled the trigger but forgot to cock on every single shot, oh, fuck it, I guess we lost." As in they kept trying with each other but kept fucking it up and eventually had to admit defeat. (Yes I think the lyrics posted here are wrong and the line is *on* every single shot, not *and* every single shot). The lines "Who the hell made you the boss?/If you say what to do, I know what not to stop/If you were the ship who would ever get on?" I think are just bitter retribution toward an ex-lover essentially meaning I don't like you anymore, I don't want to do what you say, I don't see how anyone else could like you. Yes, I think "carbon's anniversary" is a poetic reference to carbon dating, and parting of the sensory is supposed to sound like "of the century." I think of it as parting of the century (not party of the century like someone commented), as in this parting is a very big deal to him. I do think there are obvious symbols of the cycle of life, carbon going back to the earth, living creatures decomposing into the elements, etc. But I think he's using that as a metaphor for the beginning, life, and end of a relationship, or perhaps a cycle of starting a new relationship and having the same thing happen. I think the last part of the song, the heavy fast part, that says, "some day you will die and somehow something's going to steal your carbon," is basically an angry rant towards his ex-girlfriend saying one day you'll die and return to the earth. Also does anyone else think that gasping at the very end of the song sounds like heavy drags on a cigarette? Continuing the carbon imagery since there is carbon in cigarette smoke? |
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| Scars On Broadway – Serious Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yes, I agree that the "you" in this song certainly sounds like Serj Tankian. Serj's songs in system tended to be heavier and political, whereas Daron's were lighter and more personal or just wacky. The lines about nobody searching for a second chance, I'm just looking for a new romance make me think Daron has accepted being done with his partnership with Serj and System and he's looking for a new romance--a new start in life, a new band, a new lifestyle. I also think these lyrics are weird and vague enough that they could be about pretty much anything. Regardless of how he meant these lyrics, I would think that Daron is smart enough that he would know how they sounded to people familiar with his/Serj's history. And I think the line about losing says, "lose you lose you losin' and I'm feeling lucid." |
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