 Genius Lyrics
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Modest Mouse – I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)
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This song is written in couplets, each two lines only making a coherent statement with each other, but all of them tying together into common themes: life and our harmful existence
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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 – 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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Vitamin String Quartet – I Came as a Rat
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[Instrumental]
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Modest Mouse – King Rat
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“King Rat” is a song released originally as the title track of a bonus CD included with pre-order copies of Modest Mouse’s 2007 album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
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Modest Mouse – Wild Packs of Family Dogs
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“Wild Packs of Family Dogs” is a song about mental illness. The mention of an unstructured, wild pack of family dogs alludes to the heredity factor of most mental illnesses and how
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Modest Mouse – Your Life
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[Song Notes] / This song is also known as the older name: "Your Life" / [Verse 1] / Everyone's afraid of their own life / If you could be anything you want, I bet you'd be
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Modest Mouse – The Air
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[Instrumental]
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Modest Mouse – 3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters
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[Verse 1] / Tongue tip tied to the roof of my mouth / Bad naughty little angels come rushin' out / (Tongue tip tied to the roof of my mouth) / Bad naughty little angels come rushin
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Modest Mouse – You're the Good Things (It's Alright to Die)
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[Chorus] / You were right I'm hangin' 'round because / Light and sound won't separate us from them / You were right I'm underground because / Sleight of hand can't separate your
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Modest Mouse – Willful Suspension of Disbelief
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[Chorus] / Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere / Everywhere / Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere / Everywhere / Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere / Everywhere / [Verse 1] / It's
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Modest Mouse – So Much Beauty In Dirt
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[Verse 1] / Out of breath and out of cash / Find yourself watching M.A.S.H / And every night on the couch / Woman says, "Let's take a drive on south" / Roll down the windows and
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Modest Mouse – Here It Comes
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[Verse 1] / Walk to your house on my lunch break / Here it comes / "Come inside and pour a drink" / Here it comes / You'll probably tell me everything you think / Here it comes
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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 – Dark Center of the Universe
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[Intro] / I might disintegrate into the thin air if you'd like / I'm not the dark center of the universe like you thought / And I might disintegrate into the thin air if you'd like
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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 – March Into the Sea
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[Verse 1] / If food needed pleasing / You'd suck all the seasoning off / Suck it off / Well, treat me like disease / Like the rats and the fleas / A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha! / Bang your
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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 – 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 – Night on the Sun
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[Pre-Chorus] / So, turn off the light cause it's night on the sun / You're hopelessly hopeless / I hope so, for you / [Chorus] / Freeze your blood and then stab it into, in two
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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 – 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 – Autumn Beds
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[Chorus] / We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds / We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds / We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds / We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds / [
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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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