This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job
Says he's goin out to find blind spots and he'll do it
The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped when you get to the promise land
You're gonna shake that eye's hand
Your heart felt good
It was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass beneath
Well outside naked, shivering, looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels, fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
Well, a 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how
Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth
Your heart felt good
It was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass beneath
Well outside naked, shiverin' looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels, fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
Well, a 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how
Well, the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth
Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job
Says he's goin out to find blind spots and he'll do it
The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped when you get to the promise land
You're gonna shake that eye's hand
Your heart felt good
It was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass beneath
Well outside naked, shivering, looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels, fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
Well, a 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how
Well the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth
Your heart felt good
It was drippin' pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees
Felt cold and wet on the grass beneath
Well outside naked, shiverin' looking blue
From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels, fly around you
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
Well, a 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the water
Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter
And it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies
And another had been found, another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic, and how
Well, the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth
Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
Lyrics submitted by rojazz, edited by quirk3k, RemCorona, rectangles, sheionizes, wronglyric, DeusExBrockina, stephaniet, minuette, Zignor44
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i haven't read all the comments for this song but i read quite a few and i was surprised that only one person mentioned anything about the songs clear referances to pregnancy and the loss of the baby (abortion?)I really am not that great at interpratating things, so i will just say the referances that seemed obvious to me. There is a couple who is either too poor or to young or just not ready to have a baby, but the woman gets pregnant. "I have this thing that i consider my only art/of fucking people over" he fucked over the woman, and now she either has to deal with an abortion or raising this child.
"baby cum angels fly around you/reminding us we USED TO BE THREE AND NOT JUST TWO" The baby that died is an angel,(cum angel because it wasnt yet born, the pregnancy was terminated early on so it was nearer to egg and cum then a baby...? not quite sure about the cum part). The baby cum angels remind them that they used to have a baby, together they used to be three before they got rid of their baby
"A THIRD HAD JUST BEEN MADE and we were swimming in the water/didnt know then was it a son was it a daughter" clearly states that A THIRD HAD JUST BEEN MADE and they didn't know yet if it was a son or a daughter, because you cannot tell early on in the pregnancy. They were not having sex in the waterrrrr jeez.
"and it occurred to me that the animals were swimming around in the water IN THE OCEANS OF OUR BODIES AND ANOTHER HAD BEEN FOUND ANOTHER OCEAN ON THE PLANET (given that our blood is just like the atlantic)" Is saying that OUR BODIES ARE OCEANS and ANOTHER OCEAN HAD BEEN FOUND the other ocean being the unborn child
Those were the referances I thought for sure implied the termination or loss of a pregnancy.
"The third planet is sure that theyre being watched/by an eye in the sky that cant be stopped" The eye in the sky is the mother or the father or whoever knows about the pregnancy and wants there to be an abortion. The baby has no power to stop the eye in the sky.
"and when you get to the promise land/your gonna shake that eyes hand" the promise land is referancing some sort of heaven (gah i know modest mouse isnt religious). The baby is going to have a face-to-face meeting with its parents in the promise land.
nooooooone is going to read this... haaha i feel like this is way to long alreadyyy gah.
So I see that you wrote this four years ago and will probably never see this response, but I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your post. It seemed to make a lot of sense to me and made me see the song differently. Sure beats the third gender theory that a friend tried explaining to me years haha. Thanke sia for your post.
Nice and old lead sparks up, I believe there must be something going round for people are suddenly raising such interest in songs about fatalism. <br /> <br /> Sometimes I get disappointed when reading a song explanation, but this interpretation makes the song even better. I was surprised by this explanation as well and I thought it was spot on. <br /> <br /> except for one thing. <br /> <br /> Modest Mouse may not be so catholic but, couldn't it be that shaking the eye's hand is actually saying God's hand ,you know in that "promised land"... <br /> Catholic Churches all have an eye painted high up on the ceiling above the altar, it's the eye of God. <br /> <br /> I guess dealing with such tragedy as abortion could shake up your disbelieves about religion too. Maybe he wants nothing more for his unborn child to get to a promised land, if there ever was one. <br /> And maybe he is surprised about his sudden religious feelings of hope that there is gonna be a divine protector for this baby cum angel. And when they meet God and the baby are gonna shake hands. Believing in paradise not for yourself but for another being, sure is going to make you feel as if you were struck by divinity. <br /> <br /> OR<br /> <br /> One of the eye's that is watching and directing the Third Planets existence, and forcing the couple to have an abortion is in fact The Eye of a strict and religious parent. And that way, religion does play an important role in this song but more as in a feeling of resentment than as in hope. <br /> <br /> Cheers!<br /> <br />
Nice, but 2 things:<br /> <br /> cum, in the sense it is used in this song is a conjunction "used in hyphenated phrases to link nouns that describe a person or thing with two jobs, uses, etc." So, basically, it means that the child reference is both a baby and an angel.<br /> <br /> The abortion angle is something that occurred to me as well, but I don't find it to be a necessary interpretation. A child died, possibly before being born, but it's not clear how. It is clear that the person whose perspective the song provides feels guilt, sadness, anger, etc.
I like your interpretation better than mine. Everytime i have listened to this song I have always thought of the 3rd planet as being the couples miss carriage instead of an abortion.
@sunshinedaydream nah pretty good! i think it's more complex but you were hitting good points with the baby thing...and let's not forget our bodies are like 75 percent saltwater or something, especially the stuff that unborn baby would have been floating in. <br /> this one is not so easy to sum up, i think we'd need a book<br />
@sunshinedaydream Don't just leap into the abortion thing like that. It might have little to do with it or nothing to do at all. The focus of the song for the most part is the actual 3rd planet (which is Earth) and thoughts on its origins, especially, religious interpretations, there's a whole verse dedicated to it (and you've missed the point of it completely). They're not religious that's why it was sarcastic, mocking religion.
@sunshinedaydream <br /> <br /> Okay it is everything you said....<br /> But i connect the dots to this in my mind.<br /> <br /> The eye in the sky. Is "God" so as being someone whose playing god; like you said, the eye in the sky for the child's creation/creator, being the parents. The childs existence is merely in the decision of the parents indefinitely..besides well mother nature..ie illness etc...... ( ie: "God" cant be stopped) thats the guilt Isaac reflects, he feels he is playing an unfair role of God. And some do get pregnant too young, poor or any other less substantiating environments, <br /> just like the third planet (people of Earth) feels within the mercy of their God's.. <br /> It was that moment he felt he had a very high almost devine level of reflection <br /> knowing this is how people must view that eye in the sky "God", because when you "play God" everything is always in your mercy.<br /> And it's not an easy job to have if you have deep feelings of love..the whole; what is right?.<br /> So for the babys sake because Isaac does not have a deep religious belief that there is an afterlife, he hopes for the baby's sake that there is so that he can shake the eyes hand, "God".. and reunite again someday, although he lay doubtful... he understands how it is and within an iota of a picosecond how it is to be God in that spark of moment. <br /> <br /> "and it occurred to me that the animals were swimming around in the water IN THE OCEANS OF OUR BODIES AND ANOTHER HAD BEEN FOUND ANOTHER OCEAN ON THE PLANET (given that our blood is just like the atlantic)" It is how the world began, and it is how the world will end. <br /> <br /> The universe is shaped exactly like the Earth if you go straight long enough you end up where you were... <br /> <br /> His further doubt to an afterlife. <br /> He feels even if he stays on the straight and narrow. praying to a God and being a good boy you just end up where you were..."long walk to the same exact spot" <br /> <br /> Parting Of the sensory also picks hints to this up in it's own way to my foresight. <br /> Peoples feelings and their writings normally show congruentcy within themselves. Idk probably too long too but you are the only person I have ever read heard or spoke to, that has the same exact insight of this song just as I do, <br /> This is just my mind's grasp of it <br /> could be incredibly intelligent <br /> or it could be foolishly incited. <br />
a very good song....
"Everything that keeps me together is falling apart I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over."
The foundations that keep things stable are crumbling, and the only thing you feel good at is causing trouble for others.
This song has a lot to do with the illusions and faith that we have that keeps us stable.
The boss is looking for blind spots.... The 3rd planet's "watcher".... Scientific truths (our blood is just like the atlantic....the universe is shaped exactly like the earth)
The part of the song that I think is hinted at is the couple (in the baby come angels stanza) is that they lost a child. Three becomes two.....the world began, and the world will end without their child.
This probably has nothing to do with the song, but for some reason I thought about it when reading the line "reminding you we used to be three and not just two".
There's this story about the creation of man that there were three sexes that basically looked like two people rolled into one: man and man, woman and woman, and woman and man. The gods thought that they were too powerful like this, so Zeus split them apart with his lightening bolt and created a huge storm to blow everybody away from their other half. The story goes that you spend the rest of your life looking for your "other half" or your soul mate, just trying to become whole again. So if you follow this story, there were originally three sexes and now there's only two.
Again, it's probably not what they meant in this song, but it's just what it made me think of.
This is a truly amazing response. Maybe not exactly what the song was trying to convey, but still amazing. That's such a great story, because I'm not religious, and I'm also in support of gay and lesbian people, and that story describes the natural occurence of gays. Pure and maybe...hopefully...truthful.
This gives a wonderful sense of the connection of everything. Our blood like the Atlantic, the animals that coexist on the planet, same water, same blood.
Our world is a sphere, you can endlessly travel in a single direction, going past where you were before, and the universe works the same way, spaced with no bias of direction or distance.
From two, a third is born, and soon enough someone dies off. That three becomes two, regardless of any concept of creation or evolution. And you can't really do much about this flow of existance, as is shown by his only art of managing to fuck people over.
No matter how far you go, you return to the beginning. Three becomes two. Everything that held you together, friends, family, life itself, soon falls back apart. It returns, and if you found what you were looking for, that promise land, I guess you would want to shake that eye's hand.
This has such beauty to it. It feels simple, but speaks wonders I can't fully understand.
i'm pretty sure he's comparing our body to a planet, not saying we are connected to it. he's comparing all the organisms swimming in our bodies to organisms swimming in the oceans of the planet
this is just one of those amazing songs that you look at and realize you had the exact same thoughts. those very thoughts that you had thought made you different from everyone else. nice to see someone else put them in song form. i think what he's saying is that we are infinitely small and inifinitely large at the same time. one blood cell of ours could be an entire universe to bililions by billions of creatures too small for us to comprehend, and at the same time our entire universe could be just one cell in a massive creature also beyond our comprehension. this thought seems to stem from the loss of an unborn child leading to religion and then this.
This song has some of my favorite lyrics in it.
"My boss just quit the job Says he's going out to find blind spots and he'll do it The third planet is sure that they're being watched By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped When you get to the promised land You're going to shake that eye's hand"
Like people have been saying, I think that Brock's boss quit the job to go off and find 'blind spots' (where he can sin without "the eye" seeing) from the eye in the sky. The eye in the sky represents God. True, he does describe the bible as a "crock of bullshit". But he also says that it's too interesting of a subject to pass up. He writes about religion a lot. It says "The third planet is sure that they're being watched By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped" The third planet = earth. Earth is sure they are being watched by a God.
"Well, a third had just been made and we were swimming in the water Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies And another had been found, another ocean on the planet Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic And how" I love this part. There are many worlds inside the universe. Just as the earth is in the universe, there is a microcosm inside each of us.
All in all, I think this song covers the concept of evolution, (also a recurring theme on the whole album). Our existence is important, just as any other existence, because it all fits together in one giant flow. Just as each cell working together in our bodies is important to us, we are important to the operation of the universe overall. We are a cell in the universe.
That makes me think of people I know who are really smart and who say they don't believe in god or religion, but who read the Bible, Torah, and Koran to educate themselves since these books are so powerful in our World.<br /> <br /> Your last bit about our existence makes me want to recommend you the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. Let me know if you have read it, or what you think after you read it.<br /> <br /> Chao
Uh, guys, "baby-cum-angels" just means "Babies/Angels", or things that are babies and angels at the same time.
Cherubs, guys, cherubs. I can't be the only Modest Mouse fan on this website that knows what a cherub is.
All of this GUYS BABY CUM ANGELS IT MUST BE ABOUT SEMEN AND BABIES AND ANGELS floating around in here and I'm just like "Guys, you really don't know that WORD-cum-WORD just means that those two words are being combined into one thing? AND you don't know what cherubs are?" and I'm facepalming a lot.
I almost forgot that "cum" is slang for semen. Got REALLY confused for a minute there. Yeah, I thought that part was painfully obvious too.
I am, at this very moment, convinced that this song is about and accidental pregnancy and the following abortion.
Well, outside naked, shivering, looking blue From the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon (Skinny dipping) Baby cum angels fly around you ("baby cum" almost too specifically referring to the actual sperm.) Reminding you we used to be three and not just two (referring to the said potential baby no longer existing.) And that's how the world began And that's how the world will end
Well, a third had just been made and we were swimming in the water Didn't know then, was it a son, was it a daughter (The moment the child was conceived.)
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies And another had been found, another ocean on the planet Given that our blood is just like the Atlantic And how (I think this is the boy trying to figure out how he feels about that loss and importance of the new life)
"Everything that keeps me together is falling apart I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over." (I feel like he is just confused about how to interpret this life decision. When your beliefs are put to test by actual experience it becomes hard to stick to what you so strongly once believed in.)
I think it's about abortion as a whole.
such a good song
I thought it was about a miscarriage. He realizes after the misscarriage that we all have fluid swimming in us and we don't realize how important it is until it turns into something.<br /> <br /> I also think he is gonna break up with the girl. "i've got this thing i consider my only art of fucking people over"<br /> <br /> the dripping pitch and made of wood i feel is just him reminising of things that remind him of the girl.<br /> <br />