This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Every sick, fickle fucker
Childhood's what makes ya
'Til they treat ya like tundra
Weigh those opinions
More like air than lead
Every planned occupation
Surefire disappointment up ahead
'Til they treat ya like desert
See mirages of friendship, face turns read
Here's the soon to be anchor
Build bridges to nothing, you'll get nowhere
Every governor's mother knows
That their bread is buttered by Sam
And what about science?
they find proof and let you make your own decisions
Every childstar wonders
If they have a future up ahead
Every kindhearted banker
I don't think there is one
Every winning opinion
Stand on platforms in water
Filling jars full of silence you'll get nowhere
Childhood's what makes ya
'Til they treat ya like tundra
Weigh those opinions
More like air than lead
Every planned occupation
Surefire disappointment up ahead
'Til they treat ya like desert
See mirages of friendship, face turns read
Here's the soon to be anchor
Build bridges to nothing, you'll get nowhere
Every governor's mother knows
That their bread is buttered by Sam
And what about science?
they find proof and let you make your own decisions
Every childstar wonders
If they have a future up ahead
Every kindhearted banker
I don't think there is one
Every winning opinion
Stand on platforms in water
Filling jars full of silence you'll get nowhere
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i still have yet to hear any song that has more truth in its lyrics..
there ain't no fuckin' kind-hearted banker and there never will be...
I don't believe the same things as the people in Modest Mouse. But, I can't get over their brutal honesty to what they see in the world. This is what keeps drawing me back and back to their songs.
Isaac Brock is, like,... a fucking messiah.
This song is awesome. It reminds me of pent up frustration just exploding. When you finally get tired of the bullshit, boredom, bullshit, boredom, bullshit and just freak the fuck out, even if you're only screaming in your head.
I heard somewhere that this is the finale to most of their concerts.
God, what an awesome song. Definitely the best song to get yourself motivated to.
Yeah I know what you mean, I listen to it whenever I embark on something stressful or what-have-you, like exams and shit.
I think Dance Hall might give this song a run for its money as the last song of a concert. They are both awesome though.
this is my version, everyone was from my own
Every sick, fickle fucker Childhood's what makes ya Till they treat ya like tundra Weigh those opinions More like air than lead Every planned occupation Surefire disappointment up ahead Till they treat ya like desert See mirages of friendship, face turns read
-aaawww shit!
I don't feel and that feels fine, save twenty dollars (and you should rest fine?) I don't Like-
Here's the soon to be anchor Build bridges to nothing, you'll get nowhere
-I don't feel and that feels fine i don't feel and that feels fine-
Every governor's mother knows That their bread is buttered by Sam
-crook takes, crook Takes green out of wallet-
And what about science? they find proof and let you make your own decisions
-There are (answers to our reasons worthwile to find?)
Every childstar wonders If they have a future up ahead
-King Takes Queen, Takes Queen Out Game It's Alright It's Alright-
Every kindhearted banker I don't think there is one (i take you out) Every winning opinion i wish i had one
-I took you out for out on a night on the town I took my wallet out __ __ [covered up by next line] Every winning opinion i- i wish i had one
Cummmooonnn
You know what (?) life's just bullshit
Stand on platforms in water Filling jars full of silence you'll get nowhere
You're balancing balls on your nose Alright! I don't mind I don't Mind So? Sometimes you want your own space That's Alright, Right? Right!
get too creative. ordering our drinks and mine stinks, my mistakes get creative ording our drinks and your stinks your stinks your stinks (??) we get too creative we get too creative
any coments or corrections cowboydann@gmail.com this was orignally posted on a modest mouse LJ community 5 months ago at least :| thanks for the help folks
this song rules because it so unexpected how it starts off calm and then it gets crazy..very typical of modest mouse but nonetheless its awesome
fucking this song fucking rocks. ahhhhhhhhhh SHIT! it's my fav track off of this long drive is for someone with nothing to think about. it sure kicks talking shit about a pretty sunset's ass. this song is soo underrated...
oh man, and when the song gets all quirky, WHOA
Isaac writes some of the most thought provoking lyrics ever
Does anyone know waht he says right after "ahhhhh SHIT!" he says somehtign i can't make out and then something like 'give twenty dollars and you will rise to suprise. before that.
anyone?
I love this song, It's definetly one of my favorites my modest mouse. The decent into madness is suprising and wonderful.
It would be great to listen to on a long drive, when i'm thinking about nothing.
I have a long drive tonight, I'm so going to do that.