Modest Mouse Album

If you break these moth wing feelings
Powdering dust on your fingers
We know we're not praying we're kneeling
Hard enough just to say you believe them
Well how the heck did you think you could beat them
At the same time that you're trying to be them
Hard enough just to say you don't need it when they
Took it up while you were still eating
Well satellite, satellite skin

Just enough just to say you don't mean it
Well, when everybody's willing to listen
Oh satellite, satellite skin
You can say what you want you're forgiven
Well happy fucking congratulations
Well everyone, everyone wins
Just like being in my own solar system
Doing good things but then totally eclipse them
Oh what the use, oh what the hell

If you break these moth wing feelings
Butterfly knives in the ceiling
Well everyone, everyone's waiting
Detachments get praised and completed
You can say what you want and not mean it
When no one really seems to be waiting
If you sweep up this mess I've created
Nothing's left to show I existed
Except satellite, satellite skin

Asking for a question
Was it easier said than was actually done
Do you even believe that
Do you even believe that there's a race to be won

If you break these moth wing feelings
I have seen it all because satellite skin
Over innocent eyes
I'd like to know these morbid opinions
Get stacked in all those usual avoided spots
Just to tell you how I could not have seen
Through to the gist of those unhappy
Happy accidents

Well I took off running at the greatest speed.
I didn't bother lookin' to eith sid of me.
Oh I did not see I just didnt see what was really going on.

The trees had stopped an the skyline rose,
Exchanging comfort for the more fashionable clothes.
I'd left the hills at this point in time
To run on treadmills in a perfect line.

Salad days add up to daily shit,
Sparking imagination 'til the sparks just quit,
And if this is fun why'm I so bored with it,
Why I'll probably never know.

Guilty cocker spaniels eating table scraps,
When we rolled over how out master clapped,
It felt so good, we wanted more of that,
When the program failed they defensively laughed saying'
"We did things just how you asked, don't try taking us to task.
You didn't bite a face, no just a mask.
So HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

I drew a blank we put it in a frame,
Wait what you're winning, you didn't say this was a game
Well, I guess I'll just have to play and play until I am outta cash.

Before I could spit it out I guess the words had burnt my mouth what can I say?
Best of all I laid it down so you could take it out of context either way.

We said all along we deserved every bit
And mostly we knew that the supply would quit,
But we got going and going and just went with it
'Til everyone lost their minds.

Directly behind being ahead of the times
But don't you worry it'll fall right in line.
Yup, everything's just fine, fine, fine.
No one's getting blamed this time.

Blameless oh Blameless can we find a way to blame out way out.
Well, I postdated the eulogy for every blameless body now now.
We are blamelessy teething on much more than we need now. Now Now.
Blamelessy teething.

Well we're all getting blamed 'cause everyone, every one knew.
While everyone, every one knew.
Everybody, every body knew.

We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds

We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds

October came
Our case got stuck with the DA again
They pulled up the welcome mat
So many times they hurt their back
As sure as clocks are bleeding time
We'll show up early just to wait in line

We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping

As August came
Our case is drawing to an end
They said guilty so many times
All I heard was just the buzzing lights
As sure as lead sinks were the same
We're just more laundry that they need to hang

We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping
We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds

I guess I am a scout
So I should find a way out
So everyone can find a way out

They keep us in
To pull us out
I'm rising up
Wish I was sinking down
And it's not like
There was warning
We were happy
And it's not like
There was mourning
In the warning

I know I am a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

I know I am a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

Instead of seeing a neighbor out
God, I wish I would've found a way out
It's the last time
We were happy
Ever happy

I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone could find a way out

Well I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone could find a way out

Well I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone could find a way out

Daniel read the paragraph
He read until the words ran out
It said we're all in trouble now

Poison in the juice carafe
We drank until our thirst ran out
Oh no, we're in some trouble now

Everyone wants to be a perpetual motion machine
We all try harder as the days run out
We all try harder as the days run out
We all try harder as the days run out

With your teeth to your lips
And your hair to the ground
Well, you hear the fish and they're making this sound
Saying, "We just want to go on walking around
And feel what it's like to fall down"

Patrick ran the race
Yeah, he ran until the tire ran out
Oh no, I'm in some trouble now

Tried to kick it over
I tried until the juice ran out
Oh no, we want more trouble now

With your teeth to your lips
And your hair to the ground
Well, you hear the fish and they're making this sound
Saying, "We just want to go on walking around
And feel what it's like to fall down"

I saw

[Mumbling]

Everyone wants to be a perpetual motion machine
We all try harder as the days run out
We all try harder as the days run out
We all try harder as the days run out

At the movies, eyes iced over
Walking sideways through them gutters
And you realize that the floor sticks to your feet like history
Well, don't you look at me like life don't hold you anymore mystery

Bag of splinters boiling over
On your back, expose your belly
Optimism doesn't change the facts
Just what you're gonna see

Like it was stated that we're walking
Salt and coal
Plants solidify sunshine
How this start, I don't know
Cars and feet and then tire change, shoe stores
The sun's diary pulled up from deep canary holes
And when we read it our skin it becomes warm

At the movies, eyes iced over
Walking sideways through the gutter
And you realize life sticks to your feet, you're history
I'm going to slap that look off your face like life don't hold no mystery

All those red marks on our shoulders
Self back-patting, homemade trophies
Well, the past only exist as tiny bricks we burn to release all it's memory
I've had enough with rolling boulders, I want more moss on me

Clocks to splinters, but time goes forward
And when them trees drop leaves your feet collect their memories
I guess all us snakes find our tail pretty damn tasty

I heard you mentioned that we're walking, salt and coal
Plants solidify sunshine
How it start, I don't know
Cars and feet and then tire change, shoe stalls
The sun's diary pulled up out of deep canary holes
And we read it our skin becomes quite warm

At the movies, eyes iced over
Walking sideways through them gutters
And you realize that the floor sticks to your feet, you're history
I'm gonna knock that look off your face like life don't hold you no more mystery

(laughs)
I love this shit.

Well!
Well!
Well!
Well!

We spun like birds on fire
Right down towards the residence, and I
I took all that I desired
Even crooks have to pay the rent
We swam like rats on fire
Right, right down the reservoir
We took all that we could carry
But we tried to carry more

And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong

We choked on street tap water
Well, I'm going to have to try the real thing
I took your laugh by the collar
And it knew not to swing
Any time I tried an honest job
Well, the till had a hole and ha-ha
We laughed about paying rent
Because the county jails, they're free

And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong
And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong

Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll as you would, child

Oh, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again.
I said it looks like I've got to use my feet again
Well I just spent my last one hundred dollars
God, I'll pay my bill again

Oh, I don't care
Oh, how I just don't care

Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll, shooken and shy
Deep water, deep water
Senseless denial
I went down like a rag doll rat of a child

Well, King Rat has me on his list again
I can never be on the fence again
I found out it's all loud
Open like an organ and it
Talk, talk, talk, talk again
He promised me that when I cheated him
But I could open my eye, well
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again

Deep water, deep water
This senseless denial
I got fed like a fish, full of open smiles
Blue water, deep water
Oh, senseless denial
I got fed like a fish on the cardboard smiles

Well, well
What do you have to say for yourself?
I said, well, well
Well?
I said well, well, well, well!

Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
I hardly knew I should use my feet again
What do you have to say for yourself?
What do you have to say for yourself?

I've got it all most
I've got it all almost all figured out
But always when i get there
Always when i get there all the pieces they just fall apart

I can't hear you
I can't hear you talk about your dreams involving me
I don't believe
I don't that they are any sort of prophecy at all

What a shock its mr. sweet and awful
Don't look so pissed off we all lose the part occasionally

How consistent
How can someone so consistently mess up as much as
Every instance
How can someone inconsistent mess up so consistently

What a shock its mr. sweet and awful
Tell your gods i want to speak to their fathers
Look right now i'm standing on my fortune
I got caught stealing from the lost and found

Well, hey there mr. sweet and awful there
Hey there, mr. sweet and awful
Are you going somewhere or are you just walking through my walls?

Hey there mr. sweet and awful please
Hey there mr. sweet and awful
You know this is not a party, this is a crowd

Well, hey there mr. sweet and awful
You see, (???), I've got my needs
(???) and wonderin' what you please

Hey there mr. sweet and awful please
Hey there mr. sweet and awful
(???) with a vicious disease

I've got it all most
I've got it all almost all figured out