Modest Mouse – Sleepwalking

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I fell in love and
I needed a roadmap
To find out where you lived
So excited though

Sleepwalking
Because I'm sleepwalking

The white trash boys
Listen to their headphones
Blasting white noise
In the convenience store parking lot
I hung around there
Wasting my time
Hoping you'll stop by

Because I'm sleepwalking
I'm sleepwalking

A mutual friend's parents
Left town for a week
So we raided their liquor stash
And walked down to the riverside

Sleepwalking
Because I'm sleepwalking

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    General Comment:I love listening to this, then listening to the original "Sleep Walk" then listening to this, then listening to the original "Sleep Walk", then listening to this, then falling asleep and sleepwalking.
    Flag Ryuhzaon November 08, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The 4th line should be "so excited though"
    Flag tundradeserton August 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:"To find out where you lived"
    "Lived"

    I think its about a girl who moved away, and this part in the song is about how he wanted to see where she had lived before, because he missed her so much.

    Similar experiences here, :\
    Flag Ritttoon August 05, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It means something completely different to me. All of these things that occur in our life will be forgotten, or they don't mean as much as you believe they do.
    Flag brightside1209on June 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Modest Mouse writing a love song...ok, so the music isn't original but the lyrics are.

    Yes, it is about being a teenager in love. I say that with some authority :P It's so beautiful and sweet and calming. Just so nice.
    Flag Dreamwardon December 20, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I know I'm wrong, but it sounds like Kimya Dawson. I always picture her singing.
    Flag Luckycaton November 17, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:this song is so beautiful. its kind of weird that im guilty of pretty much all of the actions mentioned in the song. i already know that this song is gonna make me extremely nostalgic when im older. i feel nostalgic when i hear it now. its been like 5 years since i first heard this song.

    i could make love to nicole johnson's voice its so calm and pretty... whoever she is

    it just reminds me of wandering around town an summer nights with my heart dowsed in cheap vodka, falling in love with every girl i run into... im sure isaac felt the same way.. i mean he had to be like 19 when he wrote it
    Flag aaronabudon September 18, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:One of my alltime favorite MM songs. It reminds me of falling for a girl, and growing up in a small town where getting drunk was the thing to do. After every stanza Brock plays the chorus, so while looking for a roadmap, sitting in the parking lot of the convenience store, and hanging at the riverside, Brock gets drunk, or sleep walks. For me it brings back past summers and the longing to have them back. Brock never really wanted to leave those teenage years, and so its bittersweet reminiscing about it.
    Flag Jumper7651on June 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:as for the song:
    its beautiful. one of thier bests i think. still nothing beats talking shit about a pretty sunset and Dramamine. that whole album is my favorite modest mouse song lol
    Flag Shorty209on June 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:To Sleepwalkin:
    There are plenty of guys out there like that, its just most of them are too heartbroken or discourged because they got denied/rejected/dumped by a girl who thought they wanted something else.
    Flag Shorty209on June 10, 2009   Link

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