The Waydown Lyrics

Lyric discussion by stefanjoh 

Cover art for The Waydown lyrics by Modest Mouse

To me, its pretty obvious what this song is about, drug dealers and drug life. I really like the way they talk about gravity, "and if you want them now you could just pull on the lever and say, "I'm hung up on gravity." "--- your hung-up on not being high.

Also, "and if you asked them how, they'd say gravity's how they got there"--- the characters in this song blame gravity (not being high, or the rest of the world outside of the subculture) for being what has brought them down, not the drugs or the subculture itself.

But really what I wanted to say, was what a good portrayal of drug culture this song is, it brings back a lot of memories of when I was in a similar position, and it really describes the whole situation well.<p><b><i>Edited by Mellow_Harsher on September 6 2007, at 11:56PM</i></b></p>