| Modest Mouse – Lampshades on Fire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| There's only the live recording from Sasquatch Music Festival right now, so some of the lyrics are pretty hard to make out. I think what I do have is pretty accurate, but definitely open to other suggestions until the official song/lyrics drop. | |
| Modest Mouse – Little Motel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Expanding on the connection to Gravity Rides Everything, there are several lyrics that match up quite well. Right off the bat you've got a reference to motels: Oh, got to see, got to know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad motels and slightly later you have this pair of lines that are repeated, with some changes: When we die, some sink and some lay But at least I don't see you float away Which I think lines up beautifully with the lines in this song: We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift As tenserock said, both songs at first glance can be interpreted as one thing, and if you look more closely they can also be interpreted as songs about death. Furthermore they actually share several metaphors. Meaning that in the context of this song, being "out to drift" could be interpreted in the same way as in Gravity Rides Everything, and refer to the narrator's body literally drifting in the sea after death. Maybe this duality was unintentional but I think that due to the fact that Isaac uses several recurring themes as metaphors throughout his songs (e.g., driving, urbanization, nautical) that it is a very real possibility that there were supposed to be parallels. |
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