Lampshades on Fire Lyrics

Lyric discussion by toomanytrees 

Cover art for Lampshades on Fire lyrics by Modest Mouse

This song is quite clearly about the ecological damage the human race is doing. We go and overdevelop, set up cities, and are completely caught up raping our natural resources to serve ourselves. It's as though we're busy partying while in the process of wrecking everything. We continually expand, move from place to place doing the same thing over and over again. There's even been talk of having to possibly find ways to settle Mars or other planets once we wreck our own.