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The Decemberists – The Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics 16 years ago
How have I not know of this band until now?!?! Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.

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Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat Lyrics 16 years ago
While we're on the subject
Could we change the subject now?
I was knocking on your ears
Don't worry, you were always out
while we're were on this subject that we've disscused over and over again could we change the subject and not interject ourselves in the same mindless, endless conversation we've already had. You wont hear what i want you to hear anyway.

Looking towards the future
We were begging for the past
Well, we know we had the good things
But those never seemed to last
Oh, please just last
Looking towards are future together and sharing a life but only holding onto the good things we had in the being of the relationship knowing those good things are behind us and just memories and experiences but not willing to let them go as just that. always having to put more significant meaning into "a good time"

Everyone's unhappy
Everyone's ashamed
Well we all just got caught looking
At somebody else's page
Well, nothing ever went
Quite exactly as we planned
Our ideas held no water
But we used them like a dam
None is happy or content in the ways things are going. Both parties have said and done things they're not proud of, but where (caught looking on someone elses page) of what a life and relationship was "supposed" to be, rather then what YOUR life and relationships ended up being. you had nothing going for you in this partnership but you held onto and pushed to the brink.

Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
Saying, "Yes, this is a fine promotion"
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
And you carried it all so well as if you had figured it all out, and you smiled all the way to your own destruction.

Of course everyone goes crazy
Over such and such and such
We made ourselves a pillar
But we just used it as a crutch
We were certainly uncertain
At least I'm pretty sure I am
Well, we didn't need the water
But we just built that good goddamn
everyones got shit in there lives but don't lean on the pile of shit you've created for yourself.

Oh, and I know this of myself
I'd assume as much for other people
Oh, and I know this of myself
We've listened more to life's end gong
Than the sound of life's sweet bells
Everyone (including himself) pays more attention to the shit in life then beauty it holds
Was it ever worth it?
Was there all that much to gain?
Well, we knew we'd missed the boat
And we'd already missed the plane
We didn't read the invite
We just danced at our own wake
All our favorites were playing
So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
A tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks
Sitting, drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat

Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves
But not the skills to make a shelf with
Oh, what useless tools ourselves

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