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Modest Mouse – A Different City
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[Chorus] / I wanna live in the city with no friends and family / I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV / I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me / I'm gonna
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Iron Horse – A Different City
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I wanna live in a city with no friends or family / I'm gonna look out the window of my color T.V / I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me / I'm gonna look out the
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Vitamin String Quartet – A Different City
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[Instrumental]
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Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
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One take on Tiny Cities is that the character whose point of view the song is from is discussing contemplating death, or possibly suicide. The “tiny city made of ashes” would be a
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Modest Mouse – Lounge (Closing Time)
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[Chorus: Isaac Brock] / She was going with a cinematographer / Everyone knew that he was really a pornographer / They went down to the dance and grind / And everybody was feeling
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Modest Mouse – Lives
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“Lives” can be broken down into three parts:
A cynical view on life.
A “positive” view on life.
A cynical view on life.
In the middle of the song, the tone becomes upbeat and
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Modest Mouse – Cowboy Dan
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[Verse 1] / Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene / He goes to the reservation, drinks and gets mean / And he's gonna start a war / He's gonna start a war / And he
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Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet
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[Verse 1] / Everything that keeps me together is falling apart / I got this thing that I consider my only art / Of fucking people over / [Verse 2] / My boss just quit the job
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Modest Mouse – Convenient Parking
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“Convenient Parking” is a song lamenting urban sprawl—a major theme on Lonesome Crowded West. Lead singer Isaac Brock moved from Montana to Issaquah, Washington as a kid. He said
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Modest Mouse – Truckers Atlas
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[Verse 1] / I'm going to Colorado to unload my head / I'm going to New York City and that's in New York, friends / I'm going to Arizona, sex on the rocks all warm and red / And we
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Modest Mouse – The Good Times Are Killing Me
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“The Good Times Are Killing Me” is a thought-provoking song that questions the practicality of drug and alcohol use instead of glorifying it. Frontman Isaac Brock delivers the
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Cities Aviv – Float On
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Song samples “Float On” by Modest Mouse, the same song Lupe Fiasco interpolated for his hit “The Show Goes On” but used to much different effect
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Modest Mouse – The Stars Are Projectors
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[Verse 1] / In the last second of life / They're gonna show you how / How they run this show / Sure, run it into the ground / In the last second of your life / They're gonna show
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Modest Mouse – The Cold Part
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Several variations on the cliched suicidal saying “Goodbye, cruel world”.
Beautifully bleak song about Isaac’s departure from a barren wasteland on some side of the world. The
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Modest Mouse – Perfect Disguise
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[Verse 1] / Well, you've got the perfect disguise and you're looking okay / From the bottom of the best of the worst, well, what can I say? / [Chorus] / 'Cause you cocked your head
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Modest Mouse – Trucker's Atlas (Aborted)
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I'm going to Colorado / To unload my head / I'm going to New York City / And that's in New York, friends / I'm going to Arizona / Sex on the rocks all warm and red and we bled
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Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything
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[Verse 1] / Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now / What's that riding on your everything? / It isn't anything at all / [Verse 2] / Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now / What's that
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Modest Mouse – Other People's Lives
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[Intro] / This is how it seems to be / [Chorus] / Other people's lives seem more / Interesting, 'cause they ain't mine / Other people's lives seem more / Interesting, 'cause they
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Modest Mouse – Lace Your Shoes
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[Verse 1] / I can't wait to see you lace your shoes / Things were hazy, but that all stopped with you / We pass by headstones on a walk / I overthink something, then I forget I
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Modest Mouse – What People Are Made Of
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[Intro: Spoken] / What's up? Make love? / [Verse 1] / Ragweed tall, better hope that his ladder don't crack / Or he'll hit the ground low, hard and under his back / At the battle
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Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat
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[Verse 1] / Well, I ain't sure, but I've been told he's baking cakes inside our souls / Stayed awake, took a nap, got myself my bottles back / I'm breaking them out on the street
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Modest Mouse – Alone Down There
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In an interview Isaac Brocks spoke of this song; saying it was about an instance where he hallucinated meeting the devil. The song is an artistic recreating of the conversation he
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Modest Mouse – The Good Times Are Killing Me (Live 2004)
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[Intro] / Here we go! / [Verse 1] / Got dirt, got air, got water / And I know you can carry on / The good times are killing me / Shrugged off shortsighted false excitement / And oh
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Modest Mouse – Beta Carotene
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I got myself the means / I got myself what I call the beta carotene / Perspire from all the strings / I never had enough, enough to keep you stringing along / And by the pool side
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Vampire Weekend – Step
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“Step” is inspired by “Step to My Girl” by Souls of Mischief. Per the band:
“Souls Of Mischief I’ve always loved. I kind of associate them with the first time that I really
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Modest Mouse – Broke (Live 2004)
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[Audience Claps] / [Verse 1] / Broke account / So I broke a sweat / I've bought some things / That I sort of regret about now / [Verse 2] / Broke my pace / And ran out of time
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Modest Mouse – You'll See
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In the faces you see / You'll see, you'll see / You'll see the place where you'll die and / You'll see where you want to be / Every place you go / You'll see faces of people you
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coldxfreshair – Broke [Modest Mouse Cover]
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[Verse] / Broke account, so I broke a sweat / I've bought some things that I'll sort of regret about now / Broke your glasses, but it broke the ice / You said that I was an asshole
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