Probably my favorite MM song.. I've interpreted it as such:
Probably my favorite MM song.. I've interpreted it as such:
In this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me: Life like weeds, perhaps meaning life under a bed of weeds; i.e. death. A rock could symbolize stability, maybe the tombstone of the deceased. In that sense, it would mean that the subject defines the speaker. He/she is what reminds the world that the speaker existed. I think there could be a better meaning for this line, being that "just" has a bit of a negative connotation, but this interpretation is my favorite that...
In this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me: Life like weeds, perhaps meaning life under a bed of weeds; i.e. death. A rock could symbolize stability, maybe the tombstone of the deceased. In that sense, it would mean that the subject defines the speaker. He/she is what reminds the world that the speaker existed. I think there could be a better meaning for this line, being that "just" has a bit of a negative connotation, but this interpretation is my favorite that I've seen/thought of so far... So I'll stick with it.
I could have told you all that I love you: In my opinion, this establishes that the speaker is deceased, and wishes that, prior to his death, he could have expressed his feelings to his family/friends.
And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from: This, along with the other few lines that seem of a similar nature, seems to be about death, or perhaps the nature of life. If the speaker is referring to his death in this, "the places you go," he may have meant that, when you die, you look back on your life and see the influence of everywhere you've ever gone, realistically or emotionally. With the "faces" line, Isaac could have been talking about the day of reckoning, and how, upon death, you realize that you're a conglomeration of every individual person you've encountered and of every experience in your life. Everything has brought you to this point; everything has influenced you somehow. You'll see the things that have made you "you."
In this life like weeds, eyes need us to see... hearts need us to bleed: Probably two of my favorite lines from any Modest Mouse song. I think it's speaking about the symbiotic relationship between body and soul. Without a heart, you'd die.. And so you're dependent. But, if it weren't for us, hearts wouldn't have a reason to exist. They would be meaningless.. They define each other. In this life below a bed of weeds, our eyes no longer work, our hearts no longer bleed.. They need us just as much as we need them.
Hearts and minds are just made out of strings to be pulled:
The nature of emotion and thought: you pluck a string, and it begins to vibrate, producing a certain tone. Eventually, however, it does out, and there's but a remnant of the sound ever being played... Similarly, when a negative incident occurs, it is typically far more dramatic in the moment. In retrospect, things tend to cool down. In the end, though, there's still a tiny vibration, the dispersed sound wave that continues to flow through the air. Everything dies down, but it's still there somewhere. I feel as though the "so you think" part may be saying that our feelings aren't as worthwhile as we give them credit for. We aren't even feeling, we're just reacting to an action.
All this talking all the time and the air fills up until there's nothing left to breathe:
May be describing the vapid veneer over typical conversation. Sometimes in life, things can seem tedious... And, being that Isaac tended to use "thin air" as a reference to space/heaven throughout the albums, he means here that you literally die from monotonous living... You go up into the thin air... Up into the "better parts of space," maybe meaning heaven.
this song is so beautiful it makes me cry.
Probably my favorite MM song.. I've interpreted it as such:
Probably my favorite MM song.. I've interpreted it as such:
In this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me: Life like weeds, perhaps meaning life under a bed of weeds; i.e. death. A rock could symbolize stability, maybe the tombstone of the deceased. In that sense, it would mean that the subject defines the speaker. He/she is what reminds the world that the speaker existed. I think there could be a better meaning for this line, being that "just" has a bit of a negative connotation, but this interpretation is my favorite that...
In this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me: Life like weeds, perhaps meaning life under a bed of weeds; i.e. death. A rock could symbolize stability, maybe the tombstone of the deceased. In that sense, it would mean that the subject defines the speaker. He/she is what reminds the world that the speaker existed. I think there could be a better meaning for this line, being that "just" has a bit of a negative connotation, but this interpretation is my favorite that I've seen/thought of so far... So I'll stick with it.
I could have told you all that I love you: In my opinion, this establishes that the speaker is deceased, and wishes that, prior to his death, he could have expressed his feelings to his family/friends.
And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from: This, along with the other few lines that seem of a similar nature, seems to be about death, or perhaps the nature of life. If the speaker is referring to his death in this, "the places you go," he may have meant that, when you die, you look back on your life and see the influence of everywhere you've ever gone, realistically or emotionally. With the "faces" line, Isaac could have been talking about the day of reckoning, and how, upon death, you realize that you're a conglomeration of every individual person you've encountered and of every experience in your life. Everything has brought you to this point; everything has influenced you somehow. You'll see the things that have made you "you."
In this life like weeds, eyes need us to see... hearts need us to bleed: Probably two of my favorite lines from any Modest Mouse song. I think it's speaking about the symbiotic relationship between body and soul. Without a heart, you'd die.. And so you're dependent. But, if it weren't for us, hearts wouldn't have a reason to exist. They would be meaningless.. They define each other. In this life below a bed of weeds, our eyes no longer work, our hearts no longer bleed.. They need us just as much as we need them.
Hearts and minds are just made out of strings to be pulled: The nature of emotion and thought: you pluck a string, and it begins to vibrate, producing a certain tone. Eventually, however, it does out, and there's but a remnant of the sound ever being played... Similarly, when a negative incident occurs, it is typically far more dramatic in the moment. In retrospect, things tend to cool down. In the end, though, there's still a tiny vibration, the dispersed sound wave that continues to flow through the air. Everything dies down, but it's still there somewhere. I feel as though the "so you think" part may be saying that our feelings aren't as worthwhile as we give them credit for. We aren't even feeling, we're just reacting to an action.
All this talking all the time and the air fills up until there's nothing left to breathe: May be describing the vapid veneer over typical conversation. Sometimes in life, things can seem tedious... And, being that Isaac tended to use "thin air" as a reference to space/heaven throughout the albums, he means here that you literally die from monotonous living... You go up into the thin air... Up into the "better parts of space," maybe meaning heaven.
Who knows?