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Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Then I feel pretty blissfully.
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
We are fixed right where we stand.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
We are fixed right where we are.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well if feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
For every invention made how much time did we save?
We're not much farther than we were in the cave.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer,
And it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
If life's not beautiful without the pain,
Well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.
Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer.
And it feels pretty soft to me.
For every good deed done there is a crime committed.
We are fixed.
For every step ahead we could have just been seated.
We are fixed.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
We are fixed.
We are fixed.
We are fixed right where we stand.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Then I feel pretty blissfully.
Your gun went off.
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you.
My mouth runs on too.
Shouts from both sides,
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Well now here's the clue.
We are fixed right where we stand.
Life it rents us.
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you.
Well I hope mine did too.
We are fixed right where we are.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well if feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
For every invention made how much time did we save?
We're not much farther than we were in the cave.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer,
And it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
If life's not beautiful without the pain,
Well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.
Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer.
And it feels pretty soft to me.
For every good deed done there is a crime committed.
We are fixed.
For every step ahead we could have just been seated.
We are fixed.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer.
Well it feels pretty soft to me.
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
Well I feel pretty blissfully.
We are fixed.
We are fixed.
We are fixed right where we stand.
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It is the 'Drink life to the lees' idea. (Tennyson)
"The depth of our joy is in direct proportion to what we've suffered". -Robert McKee
I am a Peace Corps volunteer and, honestly, it's pretty shitty but it is wonderful. That's what I wanted it to be though. The only way I can see beauty in the world is if I experience the ugliness too.
Likewise, I only like the second half of the song. I listen to all of it though for the full experience.
so if pain is beauty he'd "rather never ever even see beauty again"
Well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again." refers to all the haters. Modest Mouse was getting shit for signing with a big record label back then. I think it refers to all the backlash from their fans. I also think he is saying that if they knew they were going to hit it big and their fans would hate them, they wouldnt do it again. Just a thought.
Well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again."
It sounds like a response to the mainstream thought that people wouldn't know happiness without pain. He says that if that's true he'd give up any perception of happiness so that he wouldn't have to perceive pain again. When it says "If it takes shit to make bliss, well I feel pretty blissfully," it comes off as sarcasm. The focus of the song is on something negative he is dealing with, and perhaps he finds humor in the fact that this problem he is dealing with is what the mainstream says allows him to understand happiness.
Maybe he questions that people have to know pain to know happiness.
I certainly question it.
Aside from the obvious "grass is always greener" theme, you could see it as "the land" is the world and life.. "the view" is seeing the "land" for the crappy place it is.. and he's saying he'd rather be in bliss, living in the "land" instead of focusing on constantly improving the "land" so that the view is more pleasant because for every time something gets better something gets worse and in the end we're right where we started, we're fixed in place. no deeper in the cave, no closer to the light
My favorite line is "If it takes shit to make bliss, then I feel pretty blissfully." I've been through alot of shit (and i really mean ALOT), and I've always been told that I need to go through hardships in order to attain true happiness one day. Of course, if this is true, one day, I am going to be REALLY FUCKING HAPPY. I feel like he's sort of talking about that theory here... and also his skepticism of it.