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Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin Lyrics 16 years ago
For those who care to read this interpretation:

If you break these moth wing feelings
Powdering dust on your fingers

This talks about the "fragile" feelings
For those who have never done it: when you touch a moths wings it sort of breaks down and your fingers get full of dust.

We know we're not praying we're kneeling
Hard enough just to say you believe them

The singer is expressing perhaps the level of commitment they might have already reached... not just hoping for somthing to happen.
Singer is having trouble thinking that the other person believes the outside influences

"Well how the heck did you think you could beat them
At the same time that you're trying to be them"

How could the other person think that she could continue unaffected by the outside influences if it continues in contact with them?

Hard enough just to say you don't need it when they
Took it up while you were still eating
Well satellite, satellite skin

The other person knows it wants its relationship but is pushed to saying it doesn't.
The other participant of the relationship didn't protect its interests
The "satellite skin" is the how broken up the singer is after what was done

Just enough just to say you don't mean it
Well, when everybody's willing to listen
Oh satellite, satellite skin

The other person saying that they don't really feel the same for the other person
This is what others want to listen
This hurts the singer, sucumbing to peer pressure in such a way

You can say what you want you're forgiven
Well happy fucking congratulations

The singer still loves the other person regardless of what is said, its kind of hard to get mad for long with someone you like.
Singer is frustrated with this advantage the other person has

Well everyone, everyone wins
Just like being in my own solar system

Sarcastic. Singer doesn't
Being left alone

Doing good things but then totally eclipse them
Oh what's the use, oh what the hell
(Lost before we had a cause, had a cause)

Others don't let the singers partner see the good in him
despair
Remembering when there was a reason for their feelings

If you break these moth wing feelings
Butterfly knives in the ceiling

If you break this delicate feelings...
somthing that wasn't supposed to happen (???)

Well everyone, everyone's waiting
Detachments get praised and completed

Sarcastic. The pressure the other person is feeling or has felt
You, the detachment, will get support

You can say what you want and not mean it
When no one really seems to be waiting

You can always lie, no one will really know. This includes yourself
But there is no real pressure

If you sweep up this mess I've created
Nothing's left to show I existed
Except satellite, satellite skin

If you erase my effect on you
It will be as if i never existed
except the bits and pieses after you've broken me up

Asking for a question
Was it easier said than was actually done?
Do you even believe that
Do you even believe that there's a race to be won?

Did it really satisfy you to cave in??
Do you really think this is a competition?

If you break these moth wing feelings
I have seen it all because satellite skin
Over innocent eyes

If you go through with this
i have seen it all
because i haven't done anything wrong

I'd like to know these morbid opinions
Get stacked in all those usual avoided spots

I would like to know what they say
and how you let them build up

Just to tell you how I could not have seen
Through to the gist of those unhappy
Happy accidents

to point out that i wouldn't have fallen for those things
and ignored all those experiences we lived through toghether

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Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin Lyrics 16 years ago
I completely agree with you. Funny, i was about to post somthing very similar because i just heard the song. Scrolling down i just decided to read the last comment jeje :P

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