Genius Lyrics
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Modest Mouse – Dashboard
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[Intro] / Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know / Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still had the radio / [Verse 1] / Oh, it should've been, could've
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Modest Mouse – Dashboard Samples
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See all of “Dashboard” by Modest Mouse’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Modest Mouse – Lampshades on Fire
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First appearing in Modest Mouse’s live set in 2011, “Lampshades on Fire” was the lead single from their 2015 LP, Strangers to Ourselves.
Catchy like their preceding albums' first
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Modest Mouse – Missed the Boat
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[Verse 1: Isaac Brock] / While we're on the subject / Could we change the subject now? / I was knocking on your ear's door / But you were always out / Looking towards the future
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Modest Mouse – The Sun Hasn't Left
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“The Sun Hasn’t Left” is a gentle reminder that, while things really are bad, the world hasn’t ended just yet and there are still things to take joy in. Like Modest Mouse staples “
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William Maranci – Rap god but the instrumental keeps changing Samples
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See all of “Rap god but the instrumental keeps changing” by William Maranci’s samples
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Modest Mouse – Every Season Has Its Gimick
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[Verse 1: Isaac Brock, ?] / Pumpkin head is spooked, goes right across / An orange and candy-covered rug / His teeth is rotting / Teeth is rotting / Candle has gone out / Wind
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Modest Mouse – Twice Twitch
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Stay gone for a while / Stay gone for a while / Stay gone, eyes twitch and thin smile / Stay gone for a while / It takes a needle point to smile / Stay gone for a while / Stay gone
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Modest Mouse – Feelings
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Oh no, and it's the sad-sort-of-angry I get when I'm with you / Oh yeah, and it's the happy nothing we always seem to do / Oh no, and it's a new definition of love/lust coming
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Modest Mouse – Float On
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Indisputably Modest Mouse’s most popular song, “Float On” is about how no matter what happens it could always be worse, look at the bright side. The track was the band’s mainstream
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Modest Mouse – Mouth Breather
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Got an open mouth and open sores too / Got an oversized opinion of you / Got a long race and no chance to lose / Got an oversized opinion for two / Got an open mouth and open sores
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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 – Leaflets Gabe
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[Verse 1] / Leaflets club and leaflets Gabe, I know / Life is better at the candy store / Why is life and why is wage? I know / It all gets colder at the North, North Pole / [
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Modest Mouse – Calculus Man
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Oh, the stars, they shine on; they get out of my eye / The stars, they shine on; they shine on this planet / And the stars are projectors / Projectin' our lives on down to this
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Modest Mouse – Lil Ingy Focksten
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[Verse 1] / You read a lot into it / I never even flip right through it / So whatcha gonna do with / All this stuff that's scribbled to you? / You say "There's nothin' new," / And
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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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Modest Mouse – Transmitting Receiving
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[Verse 1] / Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains / Smartphones, doorbells, refrigerators, pencils, hens, paper, skin / Hair, watermelons, alligators, volcanoes
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Modest Mouse – Every Mom I Know Thinks This Songs about 'em but it Ain't
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Follow through / And follow through / And what you going to do with your life? / Follow through / And follow through / And what you going to do with your life? / Follow through
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Modest Mouse – Ocean Breathes Salty
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The second single from the record, it usually gets overshadowed by Modest Mouse’s break-out track “Float On,” which propelled them into superstardom for a brief period.
While that
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Modest Mouse – Bukowski
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In this song Isaac is expressing how one might conform to traditional societal ideologies to prevent ostracizing themselves from everyone else – making life slightly less lonesome
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Modest Mouse – Modest Mouse - Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
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Oh noose, tied myself in / Tied myself too tight / Looking kind of anxious / In your cross armed stance / Like a bad tempered prom queen / At a homecoming dance / And I claim I'm
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Modest Mouse – Edit the Sad Parts
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes all I really want to feel is loved / Sometimes I'm angry that I feel so angry / Sometimes my feelings get in the way / Of what I really feel I needed to say
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Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash (1995 Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Eating snowflakes with plastic forks / And a paper plate, of course / You think of everything / Taking heartache with hard work / Goddamn, I am such a jerk / I can't do
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Modest Mouse – Styrofoam Boots (intro)
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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'll still float like Christ's / Well, I'll be damned they were
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Modest Mouse – Invisible
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[Fades in] / (—Shouldn't have to ask...) / (Hey, hey, hey...) / [Verse 1] / Hah, well listen, dancin' shifter, got a strong cellphone arm / Well, you're not invisible inside your
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Modest Mouse – Little Motel
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“Little Motel” is a slow-paced, contemplative song about the mourning of someone dear to the narrator. The song’s arrangement is performed in classic Modest Mouse style, which
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Modest Mouse – Education
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[Intro] / (Ha-ha...) / [Verse 1] / Call it education / It was somewhere in between / You gave me some sound advice / But I wasn't listening / After we had capsized / I could tell
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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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