Playlist Modest Mouse

modest mouse - float on

I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off sometimes life's ok
I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what can i say
Well you just laughed it off it was all ok

And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on any way well

Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on the exactly the same day
Well we'll float on good news is on the way

And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on ok
And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Now don't worry we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Alright don't worry we'll all float on

And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Alright don't worry even if things end up a bit to heavy
we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Ok don't worry we'll all float on
Even if things get heavy we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Don't you worry we'll all float on
All float on

modest mouse - edit the sad parts

Sometimes all I really want to feel is love
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
If you stand in a circle
Then you'll all have a back to bite
Back logged voices on the 7 wonders
We're all so funny but he's lost his joke now
A communication from the one lined joke
A stand up comic and a rock musician
Making so much noise you don't know when to listen
Why are you judging people so damn hard
You're taking your point of views a bit too far
I made my shoes shine with my coal
But my polish didn't shine the hole
If you stand in a circle
Then you'll all have a back to bite
(Back?) long books on the 7 wonders
We're all so funny but he's lost his joke now
Our communications come from one lined joke
From stand up comics and a rock musicians
Making so much noise you don't know when to listen
Think it over
There's the air of the height of the highrollers
Think it over
You aint got nothing till ya know her

modest mouse - tundra desert

Every sick, fickle fucker
Childhood's what makes ya
Till they treat ya like tundra
Weigh those opinions
More like air than lead
Every planned occupation
Surefire disappointment up ahead
Till they treat ya like desert
See mirages of friendship, face turns read
Here's the soon to be anchor
Build bridges to nothing, you'll get nowhere
Every governor's mother knows
That their bread is buttered by Sam
And what about science?
they find proof and let you make your own decisions
Every childstar wonders
If they have a future up ahead
Every kindhearted banker
I don't think there is one
Every winning opinion
Stand on platforms in water
Filling jars full of silence you'll get nowhere

modest mouse - missed the boat

While we're on the subject could we change the subject now.
I was knokin' on your ear's door but you were always out.
Lookin' towards the future we were begging for the past
well we know we'd had the good things but those never seem to last, oh please just last.

Everyone's unhappy everyone's ashame, well all just got caught lookin'at somebody else's page.
Well nothin' ever went quite exactly as we'd planned, our ideas held no water but we used'em like a dam.
Oh and we carried it all so well as if we'd got a new position.
Oh and I'll laugh all the way to hell saying: "Yes this is a fine promoion."
Oh and I'll laugh all the way to hell.

(Of course) Everyone goes crazy over such and such and such, well we'd made ourselves a pillar, but just used it as a crutch.
We are certainly uncertain at least I'm pretty sure I am, well we didn't need the water but we stillbuilt that goddamn!
Oh and I know this of miself. I assume as much for other people.
Oh and I know this of miself, we've listened more to life's end gong than the sound of life's sweet bells.

Was it even worth it?
Was there all that much to gain?
Well we knew we'd miss the boat and we'd already missed the plane.
We didn't read the invite we just danced at our own wake.
All our favorites were playin' so we coud shake! Shake Shake Shake!
Tiny cortains opened then, we heard the tiny clap of (little)tiny hands,
a tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all them folks,
sitting drifting round on bubbles then (thinking it was us that carried them), when we finally got it figure out,
that we had truly missed the boat.
Oh and we carried it all so well as if we'd got a new position.
Oh and we owned all the tools ourselves without the skills to make a shelf with,
Oh wath useless tools ourselves.

modest mouse - sugar boats

This rock of ours is just some big mistake
And we will never know just where we'll go
Or where we have come from
These veins of mine are just some sort of fuse
Because when they go up in my mind
Close up my mind is amused
So this heart of mine is like some sort of map
That doesn't ever tell what it?s about
Or where the hell you?re at
Here we go!
Well, I ain?t getting on no fast train, yeah
I ain't getting on no stuffed train
Well, I've been meaning to dismiss you, yeah
I have meant to dismiss you
Passed my time, where you are
My, well, my sugar bones!
I've noticed you paint every last damn sentence
You paint us to the stars in the skies, the skies
Wave goodbye, sugar bones!
So I?m swatting at mosquitoes as they?re orbiting me
I?ve grown used to so much
It goes on and on and on, swinging
This heart of mine is just some bugged machine
And we can?t turn it off
It?s going well, far from the scene
This rock of ours is just some big mistake
And we will never know just where we are
Or where we have come from
These veins of mine are just some sort of book
Because when I look in, I shouldn't look in
Now I can't close my top without you, so
Well, I ain?t getting on no fast plane, yeah
I ain?t getting on no stuffy train
These sugar boats swim around and around
They swim just fine
I'm standing on the decks so you can't
I'm standing on the decks so you can
Wave bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye

modest mouse - follow through

Follow Through
and Follow through
And What you Gonna do with your life?
Follow Through
And Follow through
And What you Gonna do with your life?
Follow Through
and pass high school
Nothing's ever new in your life
Follow Through
and pass high school
And What you Gonna do with your life?
Follow Through
and pass high school
I can't believe you'd be a house wife

modest mouse - teeth like god s shoeshine

From the top of the ocean - Yeah
From the bottom of the sky -Goddamn
Well I get claustrophobic
I can you know that I can
And he said:
"I am not allowed much danger
keep in line you're an old friend stranger.
you'll burn me if effigy and I'll burn you in effigy."
A rattle snake up in buffalo Montana
he bit the leg of the old sheriff
Ha! That boy fell down on his harelip -Ow! Ow!
Well I might be wrong
but you you tag along
and we we all been wronged
and I get dizzier by the mile
Said hell! The money's spent
went to the county line
and paid the rent said "Uh-oh."
Oh! If you could compact your conscience
Oh! And you might.
Oh! If you could bottle and sell it you might have done
Oh! And you might
Oh! If you could compact your conscience
and sell it save it for another time
you might have to use it.
And the televisions gone
Go to the grocery store, buy some new friends
and find out the beginning, the end, and the best of it
Well, do you need a lot of what you've got to survive?
Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine
He sparkles shimmers shines
let's all have another Orange Julius
This syrup standing in lines
The malls are the soon to be ghost towns
so long, farewell, good-bye
Take 'em all for the long ride
and you'll go around town
no one wants to be uptight anymore
You can be ashamed
or be so proud of what you've done
but not no one, not now, not ever or anyone
take 'em all for the sense of happiness
that comes from hurting deep down inside
Or you can walk th line and give a shit
I'm on the corner of this and this and this and this
and its all all wrong, and its all all gone
Well, you can add it up and give a shit
go to the family doctor
Its all worth it
and its all all gone, and its all all wrong
Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine
He sparkles shimmers shines
let's all have another Orange Julius
Thick syrup standing in lines
The malls are the soon to be ghost towns
so long, farewell, good-bye
And the telephone goes off
pick to receiver up, try to meet ends
and find out the beginning, the end and the best of it

modest mouse - long distance drunk

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't seem like anything you're saying or doing or doing
Is making any sense
Long distance drunk
Long distance drunk
Long distance drunk
Oh yeah oh yeah
(8 AM and someone calls you on the telephone)
Long distance drunk
(You want to be by yourself and all alone)
Long distance drunk

modest mouse - nothing new

you read a lot into it
i never even flipped right through it
so what'cha gonna do with
all this stuff thats scribbled to it
you say "theres nothin new"
and oh my god that might be true
but what'cha think youre gonna do
thats worthwhile when theres nothin new
oh my god, i cant see
but it takes half as much as it used to for me
oh my god, i cant see
but it means half as much as it used to to me
you read a lot into it
oh my god that might be true
and what'cha think youre gonna do
with yourself when theres nothin for you
oh my god, i can see
that it takes half as much as it used to for me
you say "theres nothin new"
and oh my god that might be true
but what'cha think youre gonna do
thats worthwhile when theres nothin new
you read a lot into it
i never even flipped right through it
so what'cha gonna do with
all this stuff thats scribbled to you
oh my god, i can see
that it means half as much as it used to for me
you read a lot into
whats spoken word and spoke anew
cause thats what'cha think your gonna do
when second-hand's got second-hand dues
oh my god, i cant eat
and it means half as much as it used to to me
you say "theres nothin new"
and oh my god that might be true
so what'cha think youre gonna do
with yourself when theres nothin new for you
oh my god, i can see
that it takes half as much as it used to for me

modest mouse - pups to dust

Our hearts don't change from pups to dust
Couldn't see clearly
But I had a sense of what right and wrong was
Honest to God, I was honest as hell
I don't lie very often but I lie very well
Give it away, take what you need
Love does not cost money, but it ain't free
We're learning slowly
Equal parts of what you do, you don't
We don't remember
We don't remember just how we got here
Equal parts of what we do, we don't
We don't belong here
We were just born here
We remain the same (I'm not sure about that)
Or pretty much the same (Now that's more like it)
From birth to grave, I couldn't see so clearly what I was or became
Oh, I missed a spot (Scrubba scrubba scrubba scrubba)
On my dirty thoughts
The way we feel about what we do is by who has watched us, so
Aw, how'd we get here?
Equal parts of what we do, we don't
We don't remember
We were just born here though
Oh, what's the bother?
Equal parts of what you do, you don't
We don't remember
We were just born here
We don't belong here
We were just born here
I feel so anxious mostly all of the time
If there's some point to this then which one is mine?
We really don't belong here, we really ought to wander
We really don't belong here, we really ought to wander
We really don't belong here, we really ought to wander away

modest mouse - breakthrough

I got one two three four
Five, six, six, six
Running round the neighborhood
Perjorative, "Jinx." he said the groom's
Down on me cuz he ate the rice
It was well intentioned but bad advice
Hell yeah, yeah, yeah
Let it breakthrough, oh let breakthrough [x4]
Open the curtain and let in some sky
it's almost half past two, and you can tell by the light
Open your window, and let in the atmosphere!
Let it breakthrough, oh let breakthrough [x4]
Open the curtain and let in some sky
it's almost half past two, and you can tell by the light
Open your window, and let in the atmosphere!
Let it breakthrough, oh let breakthrough [x4]
I was inverted, I mean converted
I mean I don't understand

modest mouse - trucker s atlas

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
And the writing in stall said
"we write our maps in the stalls"
I'm going up to alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did
This truckers atlas roads the ways
The freeways and highways don't know
The buzz from the bird on my dash
Road locomotive phone
I don't feel and it feels great
I sold my atlas by the freight stairs
I do lines and i crossed roads
I crossed the lines of all the great state roads
I'm going up
Going over to montana
You got yourself a trucker's atlas
You knew you were all hot, well
Maybe you'll go and blow a gasket
Start at the northwest corner
Go down through california
Beeline you might drive three days
And three nights to the tip of florida
Do you speak the lingo?
Oh no. no no
How far does your road?
Oh no, you don't know
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 up to alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did
And the writing in the salt syas
We ride on out to the stars
I'm going to arizona
Sex on the rocks all warm and red

modest mouse - she ionizes and atomizes

She ionizes and atomizes
Then turns to sunlight
He realizes and itemizes
Pulls harder than gravity
She ionizes and atomizes
Then turns to sunlight
Flourescent lightbulbs will make
An absense of dark, but
The light just aint there still and she said
"I'm feeling empty,
The real lights can make you heavy but
Never ever really empty
Flourescent lights will always equal empty."

modest mouse - sin gun chaser

Make us depressed or just sad
Make us happy or something
I am your sin gun chaser changer

modest mouse - the stars are projectors

In the last second of life, they're gonna show you how
How they run this show, sure, run it into the ground
The stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth
The stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin' our minds down to this planet Earth
Everyone wants a double feature
They wanna be their own damn teacher, and how
All the stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth
It's all about moderate climates
You gotta be cold and be hot for sure
It's all about the moderate climates
You wanna be blessed and be cursed for sure
All the stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth [x2]
Everyone wants a double feature
They want to be in their own damn teacher, and how
All the stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth
You've got the harder part, You've got the kinder heart
And it's true
I've got the easy part, I've got the harder heart
Aint this true
Right wing, left wing, chicken wing
It's built on findin' the easier ways through
God is a woman and the woman is
An animal that animals man, and that's you
Was there a need for creation?
That was hiden in a math equation
And that's this:
Where do circles begin?

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