The View Lyrics

Lyric discussion by I Am Not Amused 

Cover art for The View lyrics by Modest Mouse

I can't believe no one has figured out the relatively simplistic message of the lines:

[As life gets longer, awful feels softer. Well it feels pretty soft to me.] - Meaning his life has certainly felt pretty long, so awful thus feels pretty soft.

[And if it takes shit to make bliss, Then I feel pretty blissfully.] - A lot of shitty things have happened in his life. Thus, if shitty things make bliss, then Isaac must feel pretty blissfully.

yeah i agree

[If life's not beautiful without the pain Well, I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again] - I think this is saying that since he's gone through life and all the shit, that he doesn't want to go through anymore pain.

He's talks about his views (no pun intended) through a series of analogies leaving the audience to piece it together logically.

Since he feels blissfully it means he's gone through a bunch of shit. Since life feels soft, it means he's gotten older. And since he doesn't want to see beauty, it means...