| Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I always thought that too. The dreaded drip. | |
| Modest Mouse – What People Are Made Of Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Your interpretation is very close to my own. But I always wonder if my atheistic tendencies cause me to read too much into things and bend them to my own mindset. The last lines of the song are even better when you think of the song in that way though. Religion attempts to explain all of these profound ideas and the meaning of life itself, but in the end all it does is show us that people are nothing but water and shit. Almost every religion demands that we worship some egomaniacal god. And everyday people were the ones who made it all up. They are literally full of shit. |
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| Modest Mouse – Lives Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The first time I heard this song I just fell in love with MM. The shift in the mood of the music is so perfectly coordinated with the tone of the lyrics. The fear of failing is what holds most people back from even trying to achieve what they want, or *think* they want. It's human nature to always want something more, because we never stop feeling the need to progress. The line about not knowing the ones you love is so true. Can you imagine how fucking maddening it would be if you somehow had mind reading powers? All those trivial and unedited thoughts. The people we think know so well would seem like completely different personalities. Anyway, I could go on and on but a lot of other people already summed up most of my thoughts on the lyrics. There is one line that is especially meaningful for me though, "My hell comes from inside, comes from inside myself Why fight this?" When you feel like life isn't worth all the shit it gives you, you just have to remember that it's all in how you deal with it. |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this is one of the most literal Mouse songs. But it's about an intangible element, gravity, so a lot of people are reading into it with the concepts of fate (which of course is part of the beauty of art, that each person interprets it differently). To me it's simply a commentary on the absurdity of gravity itself. We can't physically see gravity, yet it's what makes our lives as we know them possible. | |
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