Blame It on the Tetons Lyrics - Modest Mouse

If you think there are pseudo interpretations than you are not even listening to to some of the most blatant lyrics of this song. "Language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in. Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem." This a perfect example of people saying people's interpretations are wrong, then saying their interpretation is right. This is the problem are current language has brought us. But we can use it to solve it lol.

I don't believe that isaac believes in an afterlife, I reckon that he is saying we are stuck to a dying animal, and we are trapped in this room that is our body, and the window is our senses, only showing us a glimpse of the outside world, and other people

When he wrote "sight is just a window from the room we're bound to," yes he was saying that we're fastened to our bodies and death is inevitable, but I think the message was strictly an epistemological claim that all we can know is known through sensory perception filtered through our minds and all our knowledge is forever limited by our single mind. We'll never has access to other peoples thoughts or feelings. All the things we consider "truths" are actually contingent, if merely in virtue of their being limited by our interpretation. This being enforced also by the line "language is the liquid that we're all dissolved in." Saying that knowledge is predicated on language, and that we understand things linguistically. Language shapes our understanding.

When I say "becoming metaphysical," what I mean is to exist as in some other form, or take on another shape. Something like becoming the never-dying bird, perched on a golden bough singing to people of the past, present and future(in Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium").

Please read,

Okay I'd have to say that I think these pseudo-interpretations need a little bit of expansion and explanation. Everyone is neglecting or misinterpreting the philosophical points in the song. Yeah Isaac talks about the lack of responsibility we have while blaming everything on everyone else, ultimately masking our identities, spending our whole lives worrying and "drinking cold ones to relax," but what about "sight being a window from the room we're bound to"?
It makes sense that the room we are in(as we look out into the room of life through our sight) is death, or nothingness. So he(Isaac) begs for us, if we are to "find a way out" of this inevitable death, to "let him know how." I think this "way out" is becoming metaphysical, going up and beyond the physical world to heaven, salvation etc.
We later find out that the room he is in is the building burning which burns down with time, and "with no one to put the fire out." It is inevitable that we will die, nothing can stop our bodies from decomposing, as we are as Yeats would say "fastened to a dying animal." Then Brock says that we are all an "ocean," with no one to show us how to rise above our physical lives and become clouds. A cloud should represent going somewhere above and beyond the physical life on earth, becoming metaphysical, or going to heaven etc.
The reason I took the time to present my view is because I thought the coolest parts of the song were completely neglected and unexplained. And I'm not so sure I nailed them, but I gave it a shot. Let me know what you all think. Thanks for reading, and I would urge everyone who posted to expand his/her interpretations.

This song is about the things the other reviewers said. At least as of this post.
It is about the disconnect from reality that we suffer as a society. I don't find the main thrust of the song to be allegory about taking responsibility, and yet that is exactly what it says. Take responsibility for yourself. Turn yourself into a cloud.

i think the song is referring more to people's lack of responsibility for their actions. "blame it on the tetons" is just an example of someone blaming something that probably was not involved. The recurring theme in the song is blaming someone or something, and i think the protagonist (the owner of the dog)is the one who knows himself well enough to know that the blame lies on himself not the dog, if the dig bites someone.

This song has a soft, meditative tone and it speaks of the disconnect in society and the individuals attempt to survive in a world where masks hide our true identity and the identities of the people we coexist with in the world. It talks about the regret of using words to create problems and the realization we come to that these are the things will solve the problems too. The dichotomous nature of our world we have to learn to adapt to.