Genius Lyrics
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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 – 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 – Life Like Weeds
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It’s talking about dismissing people as an obstacle, then realizing life is too short to bullshit yourself into hating those that try to help you and not saying how you feel (weeds
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Modest Mouse – Leave a Light On
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[Verse 1] / People live in homes made of leaves pulled from bananas / Others' houses are colorful, made from wax crayons / My friend's place is remote-control, but she don't know
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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 – 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 – Parting of the Sensory
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In “Parting of the Sensory,” Modest Mouse challenge any delusions their listeners may have about being anything more than an amalgamation of various chemicals and minerals, and
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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 – 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 – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes (BBC Radio 1 Session version)
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We're going down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes / I'm gonna hit you on the face, I'm gonna punch you in your glasses, oh no / I just got a message that said, yeah, hell
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Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes (BBC Session) [Digital Bonus]
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We're goin' down the road / Towards tiny cities made of ashes / I'm gonna hit you on the face / I'm gonna punch you in your glasses, oh no / I just got a message that said / "Yeah
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Third Planet
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Everything that keeps me together is fallin' apart / I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fuckin' people over / My boss just quit the job / Says he's goin' out to
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Modest Mouse – Jawbreaker
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It was like this in 1999 / It was like this in 1874 / It was like this when you were a child / It was like this when I was a whore, well / They were amassing troops on the back of
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Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Samples
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See all of “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” by Modest Mouse’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Modest Mouse – White Lies, Yellow Teeth
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You went out for a walk / I'm sure you went a long ways / Sorting things out in our heads / We'll forget in a few days / In the place before you're made / They give you all these
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Modest Mouse – 3rd Planet (BBC Radio 1 Session radio edit)
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Everything that keeps me together is fallin' apart / I've got this thing that I consider my only art of [ZX Spectrum screech] people over / My boss just quit the job / Says he got
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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 – Dead End Job at the Dead Letter Office
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“Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office” is an early Modest Mouse demo remastered for “Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol. II”.
The title is a reference to Herman Melville’s “
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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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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 – Walking and Running
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[Verse 1: Isaac Brock] / We got rooked to believe / We had more tricks up our sleeves / As the king of the mountain when it blows sky high / You just don't get to see / We get
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Modest Mouse – Lounge
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“Lounge” provides a straightforward narrative of a man who goes to a trendy dance club for cheap thrills. It details the inauthentic people he meets and ultimately describes the
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Modest Mouse – We Are Between
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[Verse 1] / Hello, hello, hello / This is the worst part / We are, we are, we are / Mirrors of our own faults / Hello, hello, hello / This is the best part / We are, we are, we are
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Modest Mouse – Ansel
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The fifth song on Modest Mouse’s 2015 album Strangers to Ourselves, “Ansel” was first performed in 2012 in Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University.
The song is inspired by the
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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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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 – 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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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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