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Riff: Modest Mouse – “Lampshades on Fire”

Dec 17, 2014

Keep it wild then make it hurt/Yeah we have scars, yeah we have bones/This is how it’s always gone/And this is how it’s going to go

from Lampshades on Fire lyrics by Modest Mouse

A seven-year itch since Brock’s shook his frenetic self onto wax, we see the live wire still white heat charged, wasting no choppy riff to chastise the human race for its ability to repeat its tired stupid self, rape every glory, soil every piece of land and party like it’s 1999 in search of the same.

Riff by Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is SONGLYRICS' Editor-in-Chief. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, his words and ideas have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.

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