| Modest Mouse – Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I'm not sure who I am, but I know who I've been." Damn good line, and it rings so true as you age. And not just teen years into your 20's, but then your 20's on. (I can't comment yet about hitting 30. Give it some more years) Saying your can't make everyone happy but you can make yourself happy doesn't really need an interpretation. You can't please everyone all the time, but you can please yourself all the time, if you wanted to. |
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| Modest Mouse – Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Modest Mouse evolved, but IB kept his lyrics and composition. He just changed the style at which he threw his music at you. This song is one of my favorites, I'd could burn it onto every CD I make and be happy :) | |
| The Wallflowers – 6th Avenue Heartache Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Here's my two cents... The start of the song with the ring of sirens, and shots: Someone was shot, and the autorities are on the way (probably the homeless man, who later died but all of his belongings were left at the scene). Also, could Jakob perhaps be that stranger who cries? He would be a stranger in comparison to the homeless man who didn't know him. I had my world strapped on my back, never knew how to act: This I believe is a reference to his upbringing, with his musical father. His world, music, is strapped to his back in the form of a six string. Almost like how royalty is forced into the way they should behave. The part of the homeless man is self expanatory if what Jakob said about the homeless man across the building Jakob lived in. While Jakob wasn't homeless, I believe he felt homeless (perhaps his dad was always touring, or he was touring, so he never got time to really know someone). A musician is a self-employed person trying to survive off their own creativity --until they get signed to a record label i suppose-- not a desk jockey who pushes paper. "Walking home on those streets"--etc etc ... I believe that is him, walking aimlessly (even though he says home, maybe he means just walking until he dies and goes to the next stage of life-- see the last line). The sillouettes are people he's met in his travels / life. I think the last verse is self explanatory at this point--material goods are so small considering they stay behind when we go moving on after we die. PS if you don't believe in a life after this, that's fine, but I do, hence how i'm interpreting some of these lines. Thanks to anyone who took the time to read my novel. |
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| Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah it does have an Ugly Cassanova vibe, which I too have missed. I also miss the Holopaw singers vocals over Modest Mouse styled music (the soft stuff, such as this song) | |
| Modest Mouse – The Whale Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i sgree with that, on my own level. I also feel that's true with Modest Mouse. We've just destroyed what could have been a paradise for humanity. What's worse is, we didn't even need to war to destroy it. While I enjoy the internet, games, electric guitars, etc etc, I feel we just created a society of greed and lust. I wonder if MM thinks that too... Listen to "think long" off Sad Sappy Sucker. Or just look up the lyrics. | |
| Modest Mouse – The Whale Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| For those who don't the guitaring /instrumental at the beginning was whale noises, listen to "Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds". The music at the end of THAT song is even better. But I will say, this music is reminecent of their old days. I also want to say to the haters of "good news" and "we were dead" is, grow up: Modest Mouse evolved and 'grew up'. I do miss that old style but I do enjoy what they've become. Also as with alot of their songs, Isaac Brock, I believe, intentionaly adds more than one interpretation on the lyrics... and it's [almost] obvious (in my opinion). Crazy to listen to Sad Sappy Suckers, then this album. THAT is how they started. | |
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