Modest Mouse Lyrics

    ------ About the song Bury Me With It performed by Modest Mouse

At first listens i heard it the wrong way. I thought more like bury it with me. Tho as soon as i fixed tht f up it makes total sence. As soon as the things tht makes him happy come to an end, he wants to die and become a part of it even though not possible.Not stay around to see it turn to shit. Seriously, i don't need none of that mad max bullshit.
The whole album has a theme of dying, not wanting to, and mainly because when we die nothing happens. But here he's saying that he'd like to live life to fullest and when those good things are done with, hopefully he can die with them where there's an afterlife, which he does not believe. We just float on, like any other object would.

    ------ About the song Edit The Sad Parts performed by Modest Mouse

I don't know about any one else but listening to this album always sends waves of melancholy through me. Especially "Ionizes.." Yet something about this music makes me listen to it again and again. Each song just encapsulates how life is. Beautiful and meaningless. Everyone trying to stand out from one another and follow what ever culture tells them to follow. Consume whatever culture tells them to consume. Watch what ever culture tells them to watch. Basically, Suburban life is shit. (Sorry for the ranting)

    ------ About the song Missed The Boat performed by Modest Mouse

I remember a decade ago, people saying the same thing about REM. Happy Shiny People, and all that. But they endured and were a fun Rock and Roll band, and that's really what it's all about, right?

    ------ About the song Gravity Rides Everything performed by Modest Mouse

This song, like so many others written by the amazing Isaac Brock, explains unnoticed but key things concerning existence, usually in a philosophic way. In my opinion, this song interprets the seemingly important materialistic aspects we obsess over in day-to-day life. "And all the spilt milk, sex and weight
It all will fall, fall right into place" tells of how unimportant these things are, yet we make such a big fuss over them. People obsess over dilemmas, usually concerning interactions with other people, which he likens to "spilt milk". It seems as though we live to mate and reproduce, then die. Sex is such a large part of human life, but it's purely a step in reproduction, just like every other insect and dog on this planet. These things seem so important and vital in being happy, but in the end, they aren't what give you true happiness. "It all will fall, fall right into place"

    ------ About the song Custom Concern performed by Modest Mouse

this song actually reaches to the center of human activity. here on earth advancements in technology: a thing valued and praised for improving the quality of life, has created this great divide between our true selves and nature (which is supposed to bring us back to ourselves). the song, arguably (for there is no one interpretation), is about civilization separating us from love of nature as it is supposed to exist: untouched. unfortunately, the practice of troubling nature has extended to other aspects of our lives. we tend to trouble what should be left alone. this principle governs many aspects of modern life. mostly, we trouble our own lives and by so doing we upset the dynamic in society; for in our states of confusion we trouble and upset and then try to control what should be a wholesome, spontaneous, adventurous life. we are too keen on updating and upgrading, is what the song is saying. in so few words as it is performed, it's a brilliant song in that it is a fine "wake-up" call to we who are too involved in our routine lives to realize that we are out of touch with the best way to live life: let the world alone; go with the flow.

    ------ About the song Ocean Breathes Salty performed by Modest Mouse

Well in my opinion... I think that this song is about a devilish lover who wasted his time

he finally got out of it and saw what real life was, all life had been wasted once he was free. he still loves them but it just will never ever possibly work. because his lover was a devilish person. who held his heart. wasted his life.

    ------ About the song The World at Large performed by Modest Mouse

When I first listened to this song I cried. It made me think of every one of my friends that I've lost in the past. But I look at it as a good thing because its made me a better person.

I'm listening to this as I write. I'm about to move out of my apartment and I don't really have a plan. It's time to move on for me. the one lyric that always hits me "why does it always feel like I'm caught in an undertoe?". It hits hard for me because I feel that way about a lot of things in my life. Hopefully this move will let me float on to something I can stand....

    ------ About the song We've Got Everything performed by Modest Mouse

I can't be the only person who loves this song, right? Anyway I sort of think this is a prelude (is that how you spell it?) to Fly Trapped in a Jar, but that's just what I think.

    ------ About the song Float On performed by Modest Mouse

I freaking love this song. When I get in my car, the first thing I do is roll my windows down and turn this song alllll the way up! It reminds me to enjoy life and stop worrying about stupid things. You just gotta head bang to this song and you'll forget about everything. I love you Modest Mouse! <3

    ------ About the song Ocean Breathes Salty performed by Modest Mouse

In my opinion it's about a relationship where they have separate views. I might only be saying this because I'm stuck in the exact same situation.

The guy believes in God and lets that govern every decision he makes and while I accept that, he tries to force it upon me but my agnostic mind simply refuses to accept the possibility of just ONE God.

"You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile. "

You tell me that you want to be with someone who shares your views and tell me all these things about God, but I'm going to tell you to get away from me out of this prison cell where you try to force me into an enclosure of structured concepts and beliefs.

"And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell (You missed, you missed)
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." (You missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death? (You missed, you missed)"

You are missing out so much in life living it by rules instead of appreciating it for what it is but for the sake of your beliefs I hope it's all true, that there's a heaven and there's a hell, good luck to you.

"The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind."

Round and round we go...