Genius Lyrics
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Modest Mouse – The World at Large
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“The World at Large” is a throwback to older Modest Mouse tracks. The sounds seemed out of place for Good News For People Who Love Bad News, but stood out as a familiar sound to
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Modest Mouse – The World at Large Samples
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See all of “The World at Large” by Modest Mouse’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Real Deal – Made in the Shade
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[Chorus: Modest Mouse] / Ice age, heat wave, can't complain / If the world's at large, why should I remain? / Walked away to another plan / Gonna find another place, maybe one I
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A-F-R-O – Modest World
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Track 4, and title track, off of Modest World.
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Modest Mouse – Dramamine
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“Dramamine” is a track that resembles driving down a long desert highway with nothing to look at or think about. It is described perfectly by the title, like being in a mindless
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Modest Mouse – The View
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[Verse 1] / Your gun went off / Well, you shot off your mouth and look where it got you / My mouth runs on too / Shouts from both sides / "Well, we've got the land but they've got
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Modest Mouse – Horn Intro
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A short musical introduction to the album. The horns used are the same as the ones at the start of “This Devil’s Workday,” track 9 on the same album.
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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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Iron Horse – 3rd Planet
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Everything that keeps me together is falling apart / I've got this thing that I consider my only art of working people over / My boss just quit the job, says he's goin' out to find
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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 – One Chance
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[Verse 1] / We have one chance / One chance to get everything right / We have one chance, one chance / And if we're lucky we might / My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so
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Modest Mouse – Sucker Bet
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[Verse 1] / My race car winding down / There's another sucker bet / My mind minding / So in debt / [Verse 2] / So bored and timely that / I'll have to burn another cigarette / We'
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Modest Mouse – Satin in a Coffin
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[Verse 1] / You were laying on the carpet / Like you're satin in a coffin / You said, "Do you believe what you're saying?" / Yeah, right now, but not that often / [Chorus] / Are
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Modest Mouse – Blame It on the Tetons
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[Chorus] / Blame it on the Tetons / Yeah, I need a scapegoat now / [Verse 1] / No, my dog won't bite you / Though it had the right to / You ought to give her credit / 'Cause she
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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 – Black Cadillacs
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“Black Cadillacs” is about the collapse of a co-dependent relationship, death, and not having closure. The song’s title is a metaphor for Brock’s relationship dying out, black
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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 – This Devil's Workday
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Track 9 on Good News For People Who Love Bad News, This Devil’s Workday seems out of place compared to other tracks on the album. It follows a story about a criminal or an outlaw
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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 – Bury Me with It
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[Verse 1] / We were shooting at a mountain of dirt / Well nothing was broken, nothing was hurt / But I probably really should have been at work / But if my free time's gone, would
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Modest Mouse – Dance Hall
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[Chorus 1] / I'm gonna dance all, dance hall everyday / I'm gonna dance all, dance hall every day / I'm gonna dance all, dance hall every day / Well I'm giving myself another one
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Iron Horse – Trailer Trash
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Eating snow flakes with plastic forks / And a paper plate of course, you think of everything / Short love with a long divorce / And a couple of kids of course / They don't mean
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