Favorite Modest Mouse Lines

Quiet · 08-18-2005, 02:04 PM

On this life that we call home
The years go fast but the days go so slow

Pretty much sums up my week.

2Marlon2Brando · 08-18-2005, 02:06 PM

I say don't you know
You say you don't know
I say... take me out

Quiet · 08-18-2005, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 2Marlon2Brando
I say don't you know
You say you don't know
I say... take me out

This made me laugh for some reason... thanks.

Netphorian Gadabout · 08-18-2005, 02:34 PM

Take 'em all for the long ride
and you'll go around town
no one want to be uptight anymore
You can be ashamed
or be so pround of what you've done
but not no more, not now, not ever or anyone

Shapan · 08-18-2005, 04:56 PM

this is hard, they have so many awesome lyrics and if this post gets longer ill probably add more of my favorites.

i especially love the lyrics to trailer trash. amazing. i think most of us can relate to that song in some way.

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 anything
Live in trailers with no class
goddamn I hope I can pass
high school means nothing
Taking heartache with hard work
Goddamn I am such a jerk
I can't do anything

And I shout that you're all fakes
And you should have seen the look on your face
And I guess that's what it takes
When comparing your bellyaches
And it's been a long time
Which agrees with this watch of mine
And I know that I miss you
And I'm sorry that I dissed you

love the momo, they're awesome live too.

Trotskilicious · 08-18-2005, 06:48 PM

This band is ok.

neopryn · 08:53 PM

you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye
when the earth folded in on itself
and said "good luck, for your sake i hope heaven and hell
are really there, but i wouldn't hold my breath"
you wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death

i don't feel and it feels great
i sold my atlas by the freight stairs
i do lines and i cross roads
i crossed the lines of all the great state roads

it takes a long time but god dies too
but not before he'll stick it to you

well i died saying something but i didn't mean it
everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
dry or wet ice, they both melt and you're equally cheated

neopryn · 08-18-2005, 08:45 PM

well some guy walks in looking a bit like everyone i ever seen
he moves just like crisco disco, breath 100% listerine
he says lookin at something else but directing everything to me
"anytime anyone gets on their knees and prays it makes my telepone ring"
well i'll be damned
he said you were right, no one's running this whole things
he said that god takes care of himself
god takes care of himself and you of you

well there's one thing to know about this earth
we're put here just to make more dirt and that's okay

you could keep digging down and down
a thousand graves without turning around or finding hell
you'll find you're digging up again

Shapan · 08-19-2005, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by neopryn
well some guy walks in looking a bit like everyone i ever seen
he moves just like crisco disco, breath 100% listerine
he says lookin at something else but directing everything to me
"anytime anyone gets on their knees and prays it makes my telepone ring"
well i'll be damned
he said you were right, no one's running this whole things
he said that god takes care of himself
god takes care of himself and you of you

im always off predicting when the drums come in during that song, and ive listened to it and that album so many times.

greymedallia · 08-19-2005, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shapan

im always off predicting when the drums come in during that song, and ive listened to it and that album so many times.

greymedallia · 08-19-2005, 02:48 AM

opinions were like kittens -- i was givin em away

Oblivious · 08-19-2005, 03:28 AM

Out of breath and out of cash,
find yourself watching M.A.S.H.,
every night on the couch.
Woman says let's take a drive down south,
roll down the windows and open our mouths taste where we are and play the music loud.
Stop the car,
lay on the grass,
the planets spin and we watch space pass.
Walk a direction,
see where we get.
I never knew nothin' so there's nothin' to forget.
Get real drunk and ride our bikes.
There's so much beauty it could make you cry.
The rich get money but never what they want.
Find ourselves a new place to haunt.
Climb up the fire escape do it 'til the ground looks far away.
Go night swimming,
leave our clothes on the ground,
when we get busted we just stand there proud.
It's the truth we all been wrong make it up and let's move on.
Playing cards we all get to act sly
there's so much beauty it could make you cry

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someone smart said nothing at all

-------------------

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

-------------------

So long to this cold, cold part of the world

-------------------

When I can work out how it was
Then I'll tell you
TV stained my memories, yeah
I don' think that she's...
Remember through sounds
Remember through smells
Remember through colors
Remember through towns
With fear and fascination
On what was here
And what's replacing them now
Interchange plazas a mall
And crowded chain restaurants
More housing developments go up
Named after the things they replace
So welcome to Minnow Brook
And welcome to Shady Space
And it all seems a little abrupt
No I don't like this change of pace

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Rows of lights to illuminate lines
Why don’t they turn them off and let us see night

----------------------

Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought

----------------------

Lift the bad weight off your mullet
And let the thoughts fall off your tongue
Cause I'm callin' callin' callin'
I've never written to anyone
So this is about ugly lovers
And this is about pretty songs
Cause I'm a bastard bastard bastard
In my lipstick I'm so much fun
Connect your wood feet to a motor
And the chrome dance trophy is won
A little classy plastic lumber
I'm embarassed but I ain't that stunned
Looks like the humans' days are numbered
That's a sitcom that was number one

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i'm in heaven
trying to figure out which stack
they're going to stuff us atheists into
when Peter and his monkey laugh
and i laugh with them
i'm not sure what at
they point and say
we'll keep you in the back
polishing halos, baking manna and gas

-----------------------

Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love

-----------------------

and uh...not modest mouse but still isaac

my light came up quick, call it your asterisk,
buried like boys in a boys first book of the stars
saw it as satellite
constant unblinking as
buried in the bottom of a bottom of a brackish lake

------------------------

i picture you as if you were a pine

------------------------

we're all a punchline to a joke that they won't let us in on.
and all your thoughts, they rot.

ammy · 08-19-2005, 04:14 AM

And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground
So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns
But we were all still just dumb dumb dumber than the dirt dirt dirt on the ground

Shapan · 08-19-2005, 04:14 AM

I'm going nowhere, but I'm guaranteed to be late

------------------

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 am not who I want to be
I probably will not ever be
I took a trip down to California
karma payment plan
my car broke down out in the street
the radiator sprung a leak
I met this guy he said he could help me
I'm on the karma payment plan
we went to his house and did some speed
he said karma would pay for this deed

-------

And it's hard to be a human being
And it's harder as anything else
And I'm lonesome when you're around
And I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself
And I miss you when you're around

----------

You're hopelessly hopeless
I hope so, for you

-----------

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"
so all of the businessers in their unlimited
hell where they buy and they sell and they sell all their
trash to each other but they're sick of it all
and they're bankrupt on selling
and all of the angels
they'd sell off yer soul for a set of new wings and anything gold
they remember
the people they loved their old friends

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there are too many, ill probably have some more in between a few other posts. collectively modest mouse may have my favorite lyrics.

Oblivious · 08-19-2005, 04:18 AM

i wish isaac would quit the music industry and write books.

Shapan · 08-19-2005, 04:50 AM

i dont.

im happy with the music and what goes with the words, his band adds to his creativity and brilliance.

i dont think he'll get corrupted now that modest mouse is getting popular, at least i hope not.

Rockin' Cherub · 08-19-2005, 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Quiet

The years go fast but the days go so slow

didn't the shins steal that line?

daydreamer999 · 08-19-2005, 07:55 AM

BLAH BLAH BLAH-BLAH BLAH-BLAH WE'LL ALL FLOAT ON, ALRIGHT!

mirrar · 08-19-2005, 10:06 AM

Hey, haven't seen you around in a while [x4]
I didn't go to work for a month
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight
I haven't hung out with anyone
'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say
I didn't feel angry or depressed
I didn't feel anything at all
I didn't want to go to bed
And I didn't want to stay up late
When youre living your life, well, that's the price you pay
Whenever I breath out, you're breathing it in
Whenever I speak out, you're speaking out
I didn't go to work for a month
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight
I haven't hung out with anyone
'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say

other peoples lives seem more interesting cuz they ain't mine.

crazy gnome, crazy gnome, comin' through your house, lookin' through your home...

Interchange causes a mall
And crowded chain restaurants
More housing developments go up
Named after the things they replace
So welcome to minnow brook
And welcome to shady space
And it all seems a little abrupt
No I dont like this change of pace

i can't BELIEVE you'd be housewife.

you've got the harder part, you've got the kinder heart ain't it true. i've got the easy part, i've got the harder heart, ain't that true.

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

BROKE. kill me that song.

life like weeds, the whole damn thing.

some hippie told me free your pets
so i let them all go free
it didn't take no time at all
for them to run on back to me.

i gotta run out now, i could go on all day.

neopryn · 08-19-2005, 10:59 AM

i wanna live in a city with no friends or family
i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv
i'm gonna remember to remember to forget you forgot me
i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv

everytime you think you're walking you're just moving the ground
everytime you think you're talking you're just moving your mouth
everytime you think you're looking you're just looking down

i'm the same as i was when i was six years old
and oh my god i feel so damn old
do i really feel anything

in heaven everything is fine
in heaven everything's alright

spring · 08-19-2005, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Quiet

This made me laugh for some reason... thanks.

me too

as for the topic,

open the curtains and let in some sky
it's about half past two, and you can tell by the light

And then thought, this'll never end
This'll never end, this'll never stop
Message read on the bathroom wall
Says, "I don't feel at all like I fall."
And we're losing all touch, losing all touch
Building a desert

We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves

The truth is it's myself
And I'm trying to understand myself
and pinpoint where i am
By the time I get things figured out
I've change the whole damn plan
Oh noose tied myself in, tied myself too tight
Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably reget soon
I've changed my mind so much I cant even trust it
My mind changed me so much I cant even trust myself

i realize i've just *******d songs from one album...i'll contribute more later.

neopryn · 08-19-2005, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rockin' Cherub

didn't the shins steal that line?

yeah, "the years seem short but the days go slowly by"

it can't be an accident can it? what indie rockers wouldn't know MM?

Netphorian Gadabout · 08-19-2005, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by neopryn

it can't be an accident can it? what indie rockers wouldn't know MM?

I believe the Shins toured with them early on, didn't they?

Zorgon · 08-19-2005, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by neopryn

everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
dry or wet ice, they both melt and you're equally cheated

That's a fucking badass line.

Oblivious · 08-19-2005, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pumpkins23836
I believe the Shins toured with them early on, didn't they?

yes.

and isaac aided in getting the shins signed to sub pop.

Shapan · 08-20-2005, 02:10 AM

i saw the shins at ATP, the festival modest mouse organized. they were really good live.

modest mouse are big supporters of theirs. the shins are pretty good.

08-18-2005, 02:04 PM	#1
Quiet Apocalyptic Poster Location: The Port City Posts: 1,836	Favorite Modest Mouse Lines On this life that we call home The years go fast but the days go so slow Pretty much sums up my week.

08-18-2005, 08:07 PM	#7
neopryn let's see your penis! Location: i had a few beers, but i'm cool to drive Posts: 31,901	issac = favorite lyricist ever you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye when the earth folded in on itself and said "good luck, for your sake i hope heaven and hell are really there, but i wouldn't hold my breath" you wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death i don't feel and it feels great i sold my atlas by the freight stairs i do lines and i cross roads i crossed the lines of all the great state roads it takes a long time but god dies too but not before he'll stick it to you well i died saying something but i didn't mean it everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it dry or wet ice, they both melt and you're equally cheated Last edited by neopryn : 08-18-2005 at 08:53 PM.

08-19-2005, 03:28 AM	#12
Oblivious Apocalyptic Poster Location: Village Oblivia Posts: 3,482	hell yeah Out of breath and out of cash, find yourself watching M.A.S.H., every night on the couch. Woman says let's take a drive down south, roll down the windows and open our mouths taste where we are and play the music loud. Stop the car, lay on the grass, the planets spin and we watch space pass. Walk a direction, see where we get. I never knew nothin' so there's nothin' to forget. Get real drunk and ride our bikes. There's so much beauty it could make you cry. The rich get money but never what they want. Find ourselves a new place to haunt. Climb up the fire escape do it 'til the ground looks far away. Go night swimming, leave our clothes on the ground, when we get busted we just stand there proud. It's the truth we all been wrong make it up and let's move on. Playing cards we all get to act sly there's so much beauty it could make you cry ------------------- someone smart said nothing at all ------------------- 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 ------------------- So long to this cold, cold part of the world ------------------- When I can work out how it was Then I'll tell you TV stained my memories, yeah I don' think that she's... Remember through sounds Remember through smells Remember through colors Remember through towns With fear and fascination On what was here And what's replacing them now Interchange plazas a mall And crowded chain restaurants More housing developments go up Named after the things they replace So welcome to Minnow Brook And welcome to Shady Space And it all seems a little abrupt No I don't like this change of pace --------------------- Rows of lights to illuminate lines Why don’t they turn them off and let us see night ---------------------- Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought ---------------------- Lift the bad weight off your mullet And let the thoughts fall off your tongue Cause I'm callin' callin' callin' I've never written to anyone So this is about ugly lovers And this is about pretty songs Cause I'm a bastard bastard bastard In my lipstick I'm so much fun Connect your wood feet to a motor And the chrome dance trophy is won A little classy plastic lumber I'm embarassed but I ain't that stunned Looks like the humans' days are numbered That's a sitcom that was number one ----------------------- i'm in heaven trying to figure out which stack they're going to stuff us atheists into when Peter and his monkey laugh and i laugh with them i'm not sure what at they point and say we'll keep you in the back polishing halos, baking manna and gas ----------------------- Just the smell of the summer can make me fall in love ----------------------- and uh...not modest mouse but still isaac my light came up quick, call it your asterisk, buried like boys in a boys first book of the stars saw it as satellite constant unblinking as buried in the bottom of a bottom of a brackish lake ------------------------ i picture you as if you were a pine ------------------------ we're all a punchline to a joke that they won't let us in on. and all your thoughts, they rot. __________________

08-19-2005, 10:06 AM	#19
mirrar Braindead Location: in our bedroom, after the war. Posts: 19,830	resident modest mouse fangirl Hey, haven't seen you around in a while [x4] I didn't go to work for a month I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight I haven't hung out with anyone 'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say I didn't feel angry or depressed I didn't feel anything at all I didn't want to go to bed And I didn't want to stay up late When youre living your life, well, that's the price you pay Whenever I breath out, you're breathing it in Whenever I speak out, you're speaking out I didn't go to work for a month I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight I haven't hung out with anyone 'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say other peoples lives seem more interesting cuz they ain't mine. crazy gnome, crazy gnome, comin' through your house, lookin' through your home... Interchange causes a mall And crowded chain restaurants More housing developments go up Named after the things they replace So welcome to minnow brook And welcome to shady space And it all seems a little abrupt No I dont like this change of pace i can't BELIEVE you'd be housewife. you've got the harder part, you've got the kinder heart ain't it true. i've got the easy part, i've got the harder heart, ain't that true. 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 BROKE. kill me that song. life like weeds, the whole damn thing. some hippie told me free your pets so i let them all go free it didn't take no time at all for them to run on back to me. i gotta run out now, i could go on all day.

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08-18-2005, 02:06 PM	#2
2Marlon2Brando Socialphobic Location: sometimes the same is different but mostly it's the same Posts: 14,525	I say don't you know You say you don't know I say... take me out

08-18-2005, 02:34 PM	#4
Netphorian Gadabout The Broom of the System Location: Michigan Stadium Posts: 4,608	Take 'em all for the long ride and you'll go around town no one want to be uptight anymore You can be ashamed or be so pround of what you've done but not no more, not now, not ever or anyone

08-18-2005, 04:56 PM	#5
Shapan Socialphobic Location: intellectual hobo Posts: 11,826	this is hard, they have so many awesome lyrics and if this post gets longer ill probably add more of my favorites. i especially love the lyrics to trailer trash. amazing. i think most of us can relate to that song in some way. 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 anything Live in trailers with no class goddamn I hope I can pass high school means nothing Taking heartache with hard work Goddamn I am such a jerk I can't do anything And I shout that you're all fakes And you should have seen the look on your face And I guess that's what it takes When comparing your bellyaches And it's been a long time Which agrees with this watch of mine And I know that I miss you And I'm sorry that I dissed you love the momo, they're awesome live too.

08-18-2005, 06:48 PM	#6
Trotskilicious My Fiesta Name is Pendejo Location: I'm never going outside again unless I need someplace to throw up. Posts: 10,937	This band is ok.

08-18-2005, 08:45 PM	#8
neopryn let's see your penis! Location: i had a few beers, but i'm cool to drive Posts: 31,901	well some guy walks in looking a bit like everyone i ever seen he moves just like crisco disco, breath 100% listerine he says lookin at something else but directing everything to me "anytime anyone gets on their knees and prays it makes my telepone ring" well i'll be damned he said you were right, no one's running this whole things he said that god takes care of himself god takes care of himself and you of you well there's one thing to know about this earth we're put here just to make more dirt and that's okay you could keep digging down and down a thousand graves without turning around or finding hell you'll find you're digging up again

08-19-2005, 02:48 AM	#11
greymedallia Apocalyptic Poster Location: louisville, ky / dallas, tx Posts: 1,742	opinions were like kittens -- i was givin em away

08-19-2005, 04:14 AM	#13
ammy yer mom Posts: 23,180	And we were laughing at the stars while our feet clung tight to the ground So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns But we were all still just dumb dumb dumber than the dirt dirt dirt on the ground

08-19-2005, 04:18 AM	#15
Oblivious Apocalyptic Poster Location: Village Oblivia Posts: 3,482	i wish isaac would quit the music industry and write books.

08-19-2005, 04:50 AM	#16
Shapan Socialphobic Location: intellectual hobo Posts: 11,826	i dont. im happy with the music and what goes with the words, his band adds to his creativity and brilliance. i dont think he'll get corrupted now that modest mouse is getting popular, at least i hope not.

08-19-2005, 07:55 AM	#18
daydreamer999 Minion of Satan Posts: 5,782	BLAH BLAH BLAH-BLAH BLAH-BLAH WE'LL ALL FLOAT ON, ALRIGHT!

08-19-2005, 10:59 AM	#20
neopryn let's see your penis! Location: i had a few beers, but i'm cool to drive Posts: 31,901	i wanna live in a city with no friends or family i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv i'm gonna remember to remember to forget you forgot me i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv everytime you think you're walking you're just moving the ground everytime you think you're talking you're just moving your mouth everytime you think you're looking you're just looking down i'm the same as i was when i was six years old and oh my god i feel so damn old do i really feel anything in heaven everything is fine in heaven everything's alright

08-20-2005, 02:10 AM	#26
Shapan Socialphobic Location: intellectual hobo Posts: 11,826	i saw the shins at ATP, the festival modest mouse organized. they were really good live. modest mouse are big supporters of theirs. the shins are pretty good.