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i'm the same as i was when i was six years old.
and oh my god, i feel so old.
i don't really feel anything.
on a plane, i can see the tiny lights below.
and oh my god, they look so alone.
do they really feel anything?
oh my god, i've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on.
where do you move yourself when that you're moving from is yourself?
the universe works on a math equation that never really even ever really even ends in the end.
infinity spirals out creation.
we're on the tip of it's tongue, and it is saying, "we ain't sure where you stand. you ain't machines and you ain't land."
and the plants and the animals, they are linked.
and the plants and the animals eat each other.
and oh my god.
and oh my cat.
i told my dad what i need.
well, i know what i have and want,
but i don't know what i need.
well, he said, he said, he said, he said, "where we're going i'm dead."
and oh my god, i feel so old.
i don't really feel anything.
on a plane, i can see the tiny lights below.
and oh my god, they look so alone.
do they really feel anything?
oh my god, i've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on.
where do you move yourself when that you're moving from is yourself?
the universe works on a math equation that never really even ever really even ends in the end.
infinity spirals out creation.
we're on the tip of it's tongue, and it is saying, "we ain't sure where you stand. you ain't machines and you ain't land."
and the plants and the animals, they are linked.
and the plants and the animals eat each other.
and oh my cat.
i told my dad what i need.
well, i know what i have and want,
but i don't know what i need.
well, he said, he said, he said, he said, "where we're going i'm dead."
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I think at the age of 6 we are all very selfish and alone in the sense that we want what we want and want to get our way. So that mentality doesnt really change, the only way we know how others feel are what they show us.
When he is up on the plane he is looking at the world and seeing all those lights and it kind of goes to show you how many people there are out there. How do we all connect>? We are really alone in this world. This doesnt change no matter how old we are. With all of this we have created in life, machines and lights and stuff, we have even farther disconnected ourselves to reality, to that equation that connects us to the nature and each other. The plants and the animals have a purpose, and he is questioning our purpose and pondering it through loneliness.
Maybe his dad just died? and there is a certain aloneness when someone close to you dies and a kind of questioning period of what is the meaning of life is if we are going to just die anyways.
I think the line, "I'm the same as I was when I was six years old" sums up the whole song. I think that this means that even though you grow up and gain all this responsibility as you mature into adulthood, you don't necessarily feel like an adult. You still feel like your six years old. Also, looking back on your younger years, you realize you're old because you know you can never have those childhood years back.
I think the line, "I'm the same as I was when I was six years old" sums up the whole song. I think that this means that even though you grow up and gain all this responsibility as you mature into adulthood, you don't necessarily feel like an adult. You still feel like your six years old. Also, looking back on your younger years, you realize you're old because you know you can never have those childhood years back.
to 'controlfreak' definitely, yeah you change, you literally aren't the same you are as when you are six. But you are the same being, everything changes, but you were that person, you know that person, you are so profoundly different from that 6 year old kid, but still, you evolved from that person, you came from that person, you are grown up -- when did that happen? -- and if you stripped everything away, you'd be that kid again.
to 'controlfreak' definitely, yeah you change, you literally aren't the same you are as when you are six. But you are the same being, everything changes, but you were that person, you know that person, you are so profoundly different from that 6 year old kid, but still, you evolved from that person, you came from that person, you are grown up -- when did that happen? -- and if you stripped everything away, you'd be that kid again.
This song is the manifestatin of the weird vacant feeling you get sometimes at the airport, when you haven't slept and your body is thrown off from the flights and the fluorescent lights start to get to you and you start thinking about your life.
It's just him thinking about life, what his life means in relation the world, trying to put it all in terms he can explain or understand, something like a math equation. I think the conclusion he comes away with, though, is that there is no conclusion. "We ain't sure where you stand." Nobody knows -- nobody has ever known, not for sure, and nobody ever will.
When we grow up, we realize that the universe doesn't revolve around us.
My simplified explanation for this song is that it's about relearning that lesson in a more literal sense.
Probably the majority of Modest Mouse lyrics are about being very small and temporary parts of the universe with no clear purpose or meaning. It makes them a very good band for Mark Kozilek to cover.