Every sick, fickle fucker
Childhood's what makes you
Until they treat you like tundra
Weigh those opinions
More like air than lead

Every planned occupation
Surefire disappointment up ahead
Until they treat you like desert
See mirages of friendship
Face turns red

Aw, shit!

(I don't feel and it feels fine
Save twenty dollars and I'll give you my supplies
I don't mind)

Here's the soon to be anchor
Build bridges to nothing, you'll get nowhere
(I don't feel and that feels fine
I don't feel and that feels fine)

Every governor's mother
Knows that their bread is buttered by Sam
(Crook takes
Crook takes green out of wallet)

And what about science?
They find proof and let you make your own decisions
(There are answers to our reasons
Worthwhile to find)

Every child star wonders
If they have a future up ahead
(King takes queen, takes queen out clean
It's all right, it's all right)

Every kind-hearted banker
I don't think there is one
(I took you out)

Every winning opinion
I wish I had one
(I took you out for a night on the town
I took my wallet out)

Every winning opinion
I, I wish I had one
(You don't mind?
Well now, that's just bullshit)

Stand on platforms in water
Filling jars full of silence, you'll get nowhere
(You're balancing balls on your nose, all right
I don't mind, I don't mind
So sometimes you want your own space
And that's all right, right?
Right)

(Get too creative ordering our drinks
And mine stinks, mine stinks
Get too creative ordering our drinks
And yours stinks, yours stinks, yours stinks
We get too creative
We get too creative)



Lyrics submitted by PLANES

Track duration: 05:25


Tundra/Desert song meanings
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  • +2
    General Comment:Isaac Brock is, like,... a fucking messiah.
    Flag justletgoandbeLIFTEDon June 19, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:listening to this song go completely off the deep end never ever gets old.

    "get too creative ordering our drinks" makes me think of starbucks.. lol
    Flag Lilleon August 18, 2010   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:I don't believe the same things as the people in Modest Mouse. But, I can't get over their brutal honesty to what they see in the world. This is what keeps drawing me back and back to their songs.
    Flag kedronhouseon May 20, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"every planned occupation, surefire disappointment up ahead..." genius, that's all i can say. and it's so true, i believe that isaac brock has to be one of the most enlightened people on this planet.
    Flag sounds_familiar06on June 04, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i belive this song is about how friends can treat you cold the job market can dry up and new begings are not as tight as the ones you had as a youth and so on.
    Flag greenandblue22on April 10, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:imo its about how u r promised success as a kid and u work hard for it but it almost never happens. We all have such high hopes for our lives and it can be disappointing when none of it comes true. I think thats what the part about don't be too creative ordering your drinks is about . I like Issac's voice in the beginning, it sounds delirious , kind of like hes lost in a desert. I guess that could go with illusions or mirages of success or w/e. idk. anyways amazin song, one of mouse's best.
    Flag turd_fergusonon December 29, 2008   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:i still have yet to hear any song that has more truth in its lyrics..

    there ain't no fuckin' kind-hearted banker and there never will be...
    Flag lagwagon182on December 25, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song is classic MM. It is about the fakeness in our society. This song questions whether what we do day to day is meaningful, or if we are just whiling away our life with trivial activity. This song is very effective, and just plain kicks ass.
    Flag sonicmariolinkon December 04, 2008   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:This song is awesome. It reminds me of pent up frustration just exploding. When you finally get tired of the bullshit, boredom, bullshit, boredom, bullshit and just freak the fuck out, even if you're only screaming in your head.
    Flag OhFuckItIGuessILoston October 14, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:ok i have listened to the beggining of the song for a while now in a 30 second demo and just now i heard it past the word desert and it totaly came out of nowhere to me cuse i always thought the whole song would sound bacily like the begining yes i did take into accout the this i modest mouse the song usually changes but i had no clue it would be like that... any way the gutar sounds like it was from the macanical birds.

    as to what the song means i like to make modest mouse lyrics revolve around me so i thought the song was about geting to creative so i saw it like we build up these situations in our heads about like what we hope will happen on our fist dates, or what will happen when we meet a certian person or on our next vacations, you get it and then we get like this wonderfull vision of it and then it happens and like boom it sucked nothing when right at all. you understand right
    Flag AimlessyEatingon August 15, 2008   Link

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