Modest Mouse – Bury Me with It

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  General Comment:They have a great sound...this song in particular reminds me of the pixies. Love the hard coreness

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  Song Meaning:2nd Amendment Anthem. Outta my cold dead hands!

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  General Comment:I interpret this song being about about forgiveness, how we can never really progress without forgiving those what have done us wrong. That when we argue with each other it's pointless, but we take it so personally and it's better just to forgive people instead of holding grudges... but we don't.

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  Song Meaning:This song is about the last gasp of an aging rock musician (figuratively speaking, of course). As the narrator's career starts to putter out, he recognizes the frivolity of living the "lifestyle", as opposed to the more constructive, buttoned-down goals that he'd once rejected for being too "vanilla". After a lifetime of trying to paint himself as some guitar-wielding cultural messiah, the narrator realizes two things: 1) Despite his lock of rock music, he's legitimately worn-out 2) Although he still nurtures a love for music, he understands that stardom, ultimately, is as frivolous as petty vandalism.
  
  Of course, the song has that dread touch of satire. "We were aiming for the moon. We were shooting at the stars. But the kids were just shooting at the busses and the cars". The singer has hoped his music would inspire some life-altering changes in his young fan-base. Unfortunately, he learns the opposite -- the songs are just temporary diversions from the hardscrabble process of growing up.
  
  
  

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    Does growing up mean getting your own label? Good question ehh?

    Flag SquirrelySanon December 23, 2012  
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  General Comment:Your all wrong.
  
  This song is about heroin addiction and living in trap houses. (I was SHOOTING at a MOUNTAIN OF DIRT)

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    Hilarious

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  General Comment:every time i hear Issac scream " i just don't need none of that mad max bullshit!" i die laughing because of his cleaver and witty ways of expressing himself. obviously the lines before and including this one is summed up to the world will end and when it does let me be buried with it in the early stages.

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  General Comment:Pretty sure the whole thing is just about the apocalypse and not wanting to have to walk around trying to make life seem useful after that (which is an extended metaphor just for death in general, but anyway) All the imagery comes from post-apocalypse stories and he even calls out Mad Max. The first verse he's just saying kids knew how to play and he thought he should be back at work (rebuilding or whatever), but when that day comes he wants someone to bury him with it (it not being a physical object, being the apocalypse itself. As in "Eh, just bury me with it.") Next verse, planets come and go, obvious. Third verse, he's still wearing a suit but its all ripped up and he wants to keep it nice but there's no way to do that anymore. Next he's remembering the parties and saying that was what we should have been doing this whole time. Shooting at the moon verse is pretty much a repeat of the first. 'Life handed us a paycheck and we said "We worked harder than this"'- that's the whole point of the song, the world ends and everything is crappy and he's thinking, why oh why did we work so hard when it was just gonna come to this anyway?
  
  So anyway, 6 years later, glad to clear that up.

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    If I were a teacher grading this, you'd get an F for re-wording the original work without adding an iota of insight. And you definitely didn't clear anything up, these many years later. But kudos for still being interested in good music in this late century.
    
    And now, on to my own crappy synopsis/paraphrase, in two parts (just like the song)- first part is Verse/Chorus, second part is Coda ("hummingbirds").
    
    Part 1. All Verses/Chorus
    "If, as I get older, I get progressively less...
    
    -free time to spend as I wish
    -enjoyment from simple things
    -of an untainted, healthy planet Earth to enjoy
    -attractive, skinny, fashionable
    -energy/health/endurance to endure the wild, fun life of the young I so loved
    -optimistic/idealistic about myself, others, the earth, the universe, and existence itself
    
    ... then you might as well just fucking kill me now."
    
    Part 2. Coda
    
    "Humans have lost sight of any meaningful or compelling reason for their existence. Now they just reflexively seek out drama/tragedy/sorrow/hurt and wallow instinctually in it (through the thoroughly human traits of gossip/schadenfreude/morbid voyeurism/apathy)."
    
    Ok, so that last part was a little deconstructionism on my part. But it's what I hear.

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    I take it to be all about the Apocalypse too... if life shits that hard, just take me out. It's like The Walking Dead, things go from bad... to worse... to worse.. to worse.

    Flag dRockingon December 05, 2012  
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  General Comment:This song reminds me of anger at society for not seeing the obvious picture, and the obvious sarcasm that life brings with it.

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  General Comment:sounds like the vietnam war to me.

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  General Comment:I always thought that this song was about the fear of the world ending, and trying to enjoy yourself as much as possible before it does.
  
  "Well sure as planets come I know that they end..." The end of the word.
  
  "We were aiming for the moon, we were shooting for the stars, but the kids were just shooting at the buses and the cars..." How todays generation doesn't care about Global Warming.

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