"Convenient Parking" as written by Isaac Brock, Eric Judy and Jeremiah Green....
Soon the chain reaction started in the parking lot
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to others cities built to store and
Sell these (plastic) rocks
Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sitting in the parking lot
Sitting in the parking lot
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to other cities built to make and
Store these rocks
Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sitting in your car with nothing
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to other cities built to store and sell
There's nothing
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to others cities built to store and
Sell these (plastic) rocks
Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sitting in the parking lot
Sitting in the parking lot
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to other cities built to make and
Store these rocks
Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sitting in your car with nothing
Waiting to bleed on the big streets
That bleed out on the highways and
Off to other cities built to store and sell
There's nothing
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
Convenient parking (is way back, way back)
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"rocks" and "plastic rocks" refers to cars, as in "cities built to store and sell these rocks" in that we have built our modern cities around cars: parking lots, streets, traffic lights, car dealerships. Cars are just plastic rocks if you really think about it, and the idea of us being so obsessive about our little rocks is a little ridiculous.
The whole "bleed out" concept is best demonstrated by watching the exit of a suburban shopping mall near a freeway: the cars bleed onto the road when the light changes, and then onto the freeway when the next light changes. The "bleeding" is a really good metaphor for the sort of cancer that cars and general vehicle over-reliance has become.
The case can be made for this being about drug trafficking, but then what does "cities built to store and sell" have to do with drugs? No city was built on drugs (except maybe Nogales). Also, I don't see Modest Mouse making a completely ANTI-drug song, let alone following the gov't's current drug propaganda campaign about the negative indirect effects of drug use (the "My grammy died so you could get high" adverts). They do write a lot of drug songs, but they're usually about heroin or tweak.
It's more than evident, through other lyrical examples (cowboy dan, for one), that Modest Mouse is opposed to development and sprawl. This song is just an ironic take on the concrete jungle we're creating here in our "Modern World". As the parking lots grow larger and spew the traffic out onto roadways in some circuitous attempt to move human cargo, our hearts constrict and become smaller, and our minds absorb less life and more automation (no pun intended).
Every time I'm waiting for my dealer to call back saying he can get my boy, I'm just sitting in parking lots.. (waiting to bleed on the big streets.)
My whole problem is this constant nagging of wanting to get away. (that bleed out on the highway)
But seems no matter where I go or what I do, I seem to keep coming to places that are.. (other cities built to store and sell these rocks.) conveniently stocked with drugs.
And as a junkie I absolutely hate that I'm addicted to heroin. It's a real big inconvenience. (Well aren't you feeling real dirty, sitting in the parking lot)
AND WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS - (Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sittin' in your car with nothing.) Not only am I a junkie, I have no fucking drugs !!
I hope this opens up some minds or anything. Sorry if me admitting I'm a drug addict offends anyone. I just thought someone would actually appreciate my input although they don't approve of my lifestyle.
Sitting in your car with nothing
Waiting to bleed on the big streets "
Urban sprawl and traffic congestion, and we brag about our perfect parking spots. Better to park "way back" and make less of an impact.
"sell these (plastic) rocks
Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sitting in the parking lot
Waiting to bleed on the big streets"
That just reminds me "sitting in your car with nothing" for hours waiting for the dealer to show up.
Kinda gives the song a whole new meaning.
Every time I'm waiting for my dealer to call back saying he can get my boy, I'm just sitting in parking lots.. (waiting to bleed on the big streets.)
My whole problem is this constant nagging of wanting to get away. (that bleed out on the highway)
But seems no matter where I go or what I do, I seem to keep coming to places that are.. (other cities built to store and sell these rocks.) conveniently stocked with drugs.
And as a junkie I absolutely hate that I'm addicted to heroin. It's a real big inconvenience. (Well aren't you feeling real dirty, sitting in the parking lot)
AND WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS - (Well aren't you feeling real dirty
Sittin' in your car with nothing.) Not only am I a junkie, I have no fucking drugs !!
I hope this opens up some minds or anything. Sorry if me admitting I'm a drug addict offends anyone. I just thought someone would actually appreciate my input although they don't approve of my lifestyle.
love,
mathias