13 posts tagged “modest mouse”

i didn't mean to be mean
why does it always seem
like i've never won
keep it clean and no ones ever won

the empty promise will make you sick, here it comes
make a point to make no sense, well, here it comes
speak about the future in the past tense, here it comes...

(awesome video)

Wake-up we're stealing cars
And we're going to bust into bars
1996 1997 1998 we're all waiting for the year 2000
Just the smell on the summer can make me fall in love
We go to the parties listen to the DJ's
Dance dance dance and go crazy
She's a party queen an she's in party heaven
Her clock is stuck on late
Got a first name basis at 7-11
Hold the slip slide taste the sweat it's salty
Irrigation ditch and a swimming hole
Nation-wide loved the movie

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

(ok ok two MM in a row, but this album has been on repeat for the past week - and these kids i don't know who they are but i appreciate them posting the full version of this song)

and you of you

(its about to rain
the sky is overcast and gray
a fall chill tickles the air
and i rediscover modest mouse)

Well, all the apostles, they're sitting in swings
Saying, "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandals 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 your soul
For a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember the people they loved, their old friends
And I've seen through them all, seen through them all
And seen through most everything

All the people you knew were the actors
All the people you knew were the actors

Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words
And I'll talk real loud, goddamn right I'll be heard
You'll remember the guy who said all those big words
He must have learned in college

And it took a long time until I came clean with myself
I'd grown clean out of love with my lover
I still love her, loved her more when she used to be sober
And I was kinder

and thats how the world will end...

the universe is shaped exactly like the earth,
if you go straight long enough
you'll end up where you were

Modest Mouse is playing tonight with REM and The National BUT  they just added a secret show following the first gig
Williamsburg
Brooklyn!
Doors open at 1:00am
Show starts at 1:30
18+
Tickets $20

and i'm relieved somehow
it's the end of the discussions that just go round and round

I woke up last night to the sounds of my neighbors going at IT.

Annoyed - no, not really

Jealous - somewhat

Excited - you bet (it was like my own private, live porno, but the best kind - no images, all sounds - let your imagination run wild)

(takes about 1 minute to get through the yelling)

These walls are paper thin
And everyone hears every little sound
Everyone's a voyeur, their watching me
Watch them, watch me right now
They're shakin' hands, they're shakin' in their shoes
Oh Lord, don't shake me down
Everyone wants two of them
And half of everyone else who's around
Its been agreed, the whole world stinks
So no ones taking showers anymore
Laugh hard it's a long way to the bank
I can't be blamed for nothin' anymore
It's been a long time since you've been around
Laugh hard it's a long ways to the bank
Tow the line to tax the time, you know
That you don't owe
I can't be a fool for everyone that I don't know