Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat Lyrics

Lyric discussion by CoughDownOurSleeves 

Cover art for Sunspots in the House of the Late Scapegoat lyrics by Modest Mouse

I think this song is about traveling

The first line until "Beneath the Dirty Brown Dirt" is when he is taking in the new sights and like...just marveling in the new adventures. He's in the middle of the wilderness, then after he gets "twenty miles down the islands" he finds a big mall, it kind of ruins the illusion, and he realizes that everything is just corporation run and there's no such thing as "natural" anymore because humans invaded it all. There is speculation that sunspots are caused by the lead expelled from Earth's atmosphere along with other human caused things...and a scapegoat is someone who gets blamed. so he is saying the sunspots of the earth are the human interaction, and in our houses, the paint is still peeling, meaning expelling lead and ruining our environment. The muscle cars, made of lead are also ruining it. He realizes his best friend (I've got a fine fine friend) is just like everyone else, (it was all in the same gray ghost) that when we die we arent unique, we're just all leading to the same universal cause of destroying and encroaching nature.

"The parts to pound attractive Your feeling you owe on your size is bleeding"

We think we're making the earth more attractive by developing it, but he realizes we are just making it smaller and hurting ourselves by delving all our resources.

In short, this song is about humanity, traveling, nature and developement, a lot like Novacain Stain and kinda the same feel to it.

*****"the parts repelled and retracted"

use your noggin.