 Genius Lyrics
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Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling
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“Bankrupt on Selling” is about the dystopian reality that is modern industry and business, and uses religious figures to show just how untrustworthy the man really is.
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Modest Mouse – Bankrupt on Selling (Live 2004)
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[Audience Applause] / [Acoustic Guitar Intro] / [Verse 1] / Well all the Apostles, they're sitting in swings / And I'd trade off my Savior for a set of new rings / And some sandals
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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 – 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 – Doin' the Cockroach (Live 2004)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / I was in heaven / I was in hell / Believe in neither / But fear them as well / This one's a doctor / This one's a lawyer / This one's a cash
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Modest Mouse – Wild Packs of Family Dogs (Live 2004)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Verse 1] / A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard one day / My father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away, okay / A wild pack of family
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Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat (Live 2004)
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[Verse A 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 breakin' them out on the
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Modest Mouse – Interstate 8 (Live 2004)
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[Verse 1] / Spent 18 hours waiting stoned 'cause grace / I spent the same 18 hours in the same damn place / I'm on a road shaped like a figure 8 / I'm going nowhere, but I'm
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Modest Mouse – Paper Thin Walls (Live 2004)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Chorus] / These walls are paper thin / And everyone hears every little sound / Everyone's a voyeur / As they're watching me watch them watch me right now
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Modest Mouse – Never Ending Math Equation (Live 2004)
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[Verse] / I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old / And, oh my God, I feel so damn old / I don't really feel anything at all / On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
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Modest Mouse – Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
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“Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine,” the opening track on Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West, illustrates Brock’s lyrical capacity like no other song. There are many innuendoes
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Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet (Live 2004)
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[Audience Cheering] / [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
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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 – 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 – Trailer Trash
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“Trailer Trash” was written by lead singer Isaac Brock about the time he spent living in a trailer park in Oregon during 3rd and 4th grade. In the Pitchfork documentary about The
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Modest Mouse – Shit Luck
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This plane is definitely crashing / This boat is obviously sinking / This building's totally burning down / And my, and my, and my, and my / And my, and my, and my, and my / And my
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Modest Mouse – Doin' the Cockroach
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[Verse 1] / I was in heaven, I was in hell / Believe in neither, but fear them as well / This one's a doctor, this one's a lawyer / This one's a cash thief, taking your money
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Modest Mouse – Heart Cooks Brain
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“Heart Cooks Brain” deals with loneliness, depression and the absence of purpose is the lasting footprint of Isaac Brock and Modest Mouse.
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Modest Mouse – Polar Opposites
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[Verse 1] / Polar opposites don't push away / It's the same on the weekends as the rest of the days / And I know I should go but I will probably stay / And that's all you can do
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Modest Mouse – Out of Gas
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Modest Mouse spent a lot of time on the road. This is one of the many songs on Lonesome Crowded West inspired by that.
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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 – 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 – Baby Blue Sedan
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“Baby Blue Sedan” was orignally released as a bonus track on the double vinyl version of 1997’s The Lonesome Crowded West. It was later included on the beautiful Building Nothing
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Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots / It’s All Nice on Ice, Alright
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[Styrofoam Boots] / [Verse 1] / Well, all's not well but I'm told that it'll all be quite nice / You'll be drowned in boots like mafia / But your feet will still float like Christ'
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Modest Mouse – Long Distance Drunk
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[Verse 1] / Hang it up now or never / Hang it up again / (Hang it up now or never) / Hang it up now or never / Hang it up again / Hang it up now or never / Hang it up again / Doesn
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