| Modest Mouse – Of Course We Know Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The first verse is about being on autopilot/day dreaming while being stuck in traffic. Also I think it's "course" instead of "corpse". If we were to wake up we'd see that we're just wasting our lives away going to work and coming home again day after day. But what the hell are we here for anyways? I guess we don't know. In the chorus he's saying that if God set all this up then he should come down and experience it too. "Lay down his soul" like we have to do to survive. The second verse he's encouraging you to open your eyes and see that it's a beautiful world, even the touch of air on our skin should be something we appreciate everyday. This invisible air is better than any designer clothes - we should practice mindfulness, then we wouldn't feel the need to buy so much stuff which causes us to work long hours. Then again on the chorus he's like "come on God, do it, lay down your soul, let down your guard, and even bring your children into this world." Finally he revisits the notion that we don't know what were here to do. Saying of course we do, we just suppress it. Taken as a whole the song is saying we can't ever get away from our true nature. We can fall asleep or get hypnotized going through the motions as consumers but it won't ever satisfy us. We need to be awake, aware, and mindful of every sensation, then we wont feel the need to work so much to try and fill that void. |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"When we die, some sink and some lay. But at least I don't see you float away." These two lines are some of MM's best. You may die, but you return the same ground that I will return to one day. In that sense, you're not really gone, your wave just passed and sank back down. One day, my wave too will dissipate and I'll lay down and we'll be together. |
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