by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

While we're on the subject Could we change the subject now? I was knocking on your ears Don't worry you were always out Looking towards the future We were begging for the past Well, we know we had th

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 not excited with my life any m

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over My boss just quit the job says He's goin' out to find blind spots and he'll do

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below And oh my God, they look so alone But do they r

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

The good times are killing me, here we go Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on Shrug off shortsighted false excitement And oh what can I say? Have one, have twenty more "One mores

by Modest Mouse on album The Lonesome Crowded West

Well all the apostles, they're sitting in swings Saying, "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings And some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era" And all of the businesser

by Modest Mouse on album No One's First And You're Next (EP)

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 October came, our case got stuck with

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 the view" Well, now here's the clue Li

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 much to me I just don't think that it's

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 can stand I move on to another day To a whole new town

by Modest Mouse on album The Lonesome Crowded West

Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player In the cowboy scene He goes to the reservation drinks And gets mean He's gonna start a war He's gonna start a war And he hops in his Pickup Puts the pedal to the flo

by Modest Mouse on album The Lonesome Crowded West

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, well From the top of the ocean, yeah From the bottom of the sky, goddamn Well

by Modest Mouse on album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

We were spitting venom At most everyone we know If the damned gave us a road map Then we'd know just were to go Now let it drop Let it all drop Let it all drop Oh, let it all fall off Well you were

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that riding on your everything? It isn't anything at all Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad mo

by 764-Hero on album Miscellaneous

You and me, whenever we go wrong Wake up early and you'll live to regret (Nothing is clear) And you'll tell it to the telephone (tell the truth) Look whenever you're talking all alone (

by Modest Mouse on album Interstate 8

Spent 18 hours Waitin' stoned for space I spent the same 18 hours In the same damn place I'm on a road Shaped like a figure 8 I'm goin' nowhere But I'm guaranteed to be late You go out like a riptid

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

And it's true we named our children after towns That we've never been to and it's true That the clouds just hung around Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral And we we're done, done, done With all t

by Modest Mouse on album The Lonesome Crowded West

Slow walk It's land mine It's coal mine It's a bad thought On the way to God don't know My brain's the burger And my heart's the coal I'm trying to get my head clear I push things out through my mout

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

These walls are paper thin And everyone hears every little sound Everyone's a voyeurist, they're watching me Watch them, watch me right now They're shakin' hands, they're shakin' in their shoes Oh Lo

by Modest Mouse on album Miscellaneous

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 Ah, ha, ha, ah, ha, ha Bang your head like a gong 'cause it's filled with