[modest mouse]

album: the moon and antarctica (2000)

song: third planet
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 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 promise land
your gonna shake that eyes hand
your heart it felt good
it was drippin pitch and made of wood
and your hands and knees
felt cold and wet on the grass to me
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
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
the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
and the unniverse is shaped exactly like the earth
if you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
your heart if felt good
it was drippin pitch and made of wood
and your hands and knees
felt cold and wet on the grass to me
outside naked, shivering looking blue,
from the cold sunlight that's reflected off the moon
baby cum angels fly around you
reminding us we used to be three and not just two
and that's how the world began
and that's how the world will end



song: gravity rides everything
oh gotta see gotta know right now
what's that riding on your everything?
it isn't anything at all
oh gotta see gotta know right now
what's that writing on your shelf
in the bathrooms
and the bad motels
no one really cared for it at all
not the gravity plan
early, early in the morning
it pulls all on down my sore feet
i wanna go back to sleep
in the motions and the things that you say
it all will fall, fall right into place
as fruit drops, flesh it sags
everything will fall right into place
when we die some sink and some lay
but at least i don't see you float away
and all the spilt milk sex and weight
it all will fall, fall right into place



song: dark center of the universe
well i might
disintegrate into the thin air if you like
and i'm not
the dark center of the universe like you thought
well it took a lot of work to be the ass i am
and i'm pretty damn sure that anyone can
equally, easily fuck you over
well God said something but he didn't mean it
everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
dry and wet ice, they both melt
and you're equally cheated
well it took a lot of work to be the ass i am
and i'm pretty damn sure that anyone can
equally, easily fuck you over
well an endless ocean landing on an endless desert
well it's funny as hell,
but no one laughs when they get there
if you can't see the thin air
why the hell should you care?
well it took a lot of work to be the ass i am
and i'm pretty damn sure that anyone can
equally, easily fuck you over
well sure you'll tell me you've got nothing to say
and I went and shook hands the other day
if you can't see the thin air then
what the hell is in your way?



song: perfect disguise
well you've got the perfect disguise
and you're looking OK
from the bottom of the best to the worst
well what can i say
cause you cocked your head
to shoot me down
and i don't give a damn
about you or this town no more
no, but i know the score
need me to fall down
so you can climb up
some fool-ass ladder
well, good luck
i hope,
i hope there's something better up there
cause you cocked your head
to shoot me down
and i don't give a damn
about you or this town no more
no, cause i know the score
need me to fall down
so you can climb up
some fool-ass ladder
well, good luck
i hope,
i hope there's something better up there



song: tiny cities made of ashes
we're going down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes
i'm going to hit you on the face
i'm going to punch you in your glasses
oh no
i just got a message that said
"yeah, hell has frozen over."
i got a phone call from the Lord saying,
"hey boy, get a sweater, right now."
so we're drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' coca coca cola
i can feel it rolling right on down
oh right on down my throat now
as we're headed down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes
i'm gonna get dressed up in plastic
gonna shake hands with the masses
OH NO
does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
does anybody know a way?
we're going down the road to tiny cities made of ashes
i'm going to hit you on the face
i'm going to punch you in your glasses
i'm wearing myself a t-shirt that says
"the world is my ashtray"
our hearts pump dust and our hair's all grey
and i just got a message that said
"yeah, hell has frozen over."
i got a phone call from the Lord saying,
"hey boy, get a sweater, right now!"
does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
does anybody know a way?
we're drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' drink' coca coca cola
i can feel it rolling right on down
oh right on down my throat
as we're headed down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes
i'm going to lay down -at the spa?- where they coat you in molasses
right now
does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
does anybody know a way?



song: a different city
i want to live in the city with no friends or family
i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv
i will remember to remember to forget you forgot me
i'm gonna look out the window of my color tv
through the cracks in the wall
slow motion for all
dripped out of the bar
so -sports?- is nothing at all
i'm watching tv
i guess that's a solution
they gave me a receipt that said i didn't buy nothing
so rust is a fire
and our blood oxidizes
my eyes roll around all around on the carpet
oh hit the deck
it's the decal man
standing upside down and talking out of his pants
through the cracks in the wall
slow motion for all
left holding the ball and a part for your car



song: the cold part
so long to this cold, cold part of the world
so long to this bone-bleached part of the world
so long to this salt-soaked part of the world
i stepped down as president of antarctica
can't blame me
don't blame me
so long to this sad, sad part of the world
so long



song: the cold part
how do,
how do you do?
my name is you
flies, they all gather round me
and you too
you can't see anything well
you ask me what size it is,
not what i sell
the flies they all gather round me
and you too
well i don't want you to be alone down there
to be alone down there
to be alone
well the devil's apprentice,
he gave me some credit
he fed me a line,
and i'll probably regret it
i don't want you to be alone down there
to be alone down there
to be alone



song: the stars are projectors
**need to get the lyrics, don't have them on me**



song: wild pack of family dogs
a wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard one day
my father got his gun, shot it up they ran away ok
a wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard
and as my own dog ran away with them i didnt say much of anything at all
didn't say much of anything at all
a wild pack of family dogs came running through the yard
as my little sister played the dogs took her away
and i guess she was eaten up ok
yeah she was eaten up ok
my mothers crying blood dust now
my mothers crying blood dust now
my daddy quit his job today
i guess he was fired but thats ok
and im sitting outside by my mud lake
waiting for the pack to take me away
right after i die,
the dogs start running up towards the glowing sky
and they will receive their rewards
now they will receive their rewards



song: paper thin walls
these walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound
everyone's a voyeurist, they're watching me watch them watch me right now
they're shaking hands, they're shaking in their shoes, oh Lord don't shake me down
everyone wants to move them and half of everyone else moves around
it's been agreed the whole world stinks so no one's taking showers anymore
laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank
i can't be blamed for nothing anymore
it's been a long time since you've been around
laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank
tow the line to tax the time you know that you don't owe
i can't be a fool for everyone that i don't know



song: i came as a rat
well i don't know but i've been told
he's baking cakes inside our souls
stayed awake, took a nap
got myself my bottles back
i'm breaking down out on the street
walking round my own bare feet
i do not need you to tell me
that i'm not a cat
i caught a rat, we caught some air
he's never gonna cut his hair
he takes more time to make a fake
we now swim down in the lake
and wash the dirt off our intentions
paddle on with our bad inventions
i came as ice, i came as a whore
i came as advice that came too sure
i came as gold, i came as crap
i came too clean, and i came as a rat
it takes a long time, but God dies too
but not before he'll stick it too you
i don't know but i've been told
you'll never die and you never grow old
i came as a call, i came as flat
i came too soon so i came back
i came as flowers, i came as nice
i came as dirt, and i came as a surprise
it takes a long time, but God dies too
but not before he'll stick it too you
i don't know but i've been told
you'll never die and you never grow old



song: lives
everyone's afraid of their own life
if you could be anything you want i bet you'd be disappointed, am i right?
no one really knows the ones they love
if you knew everything they thought i bet you'd wish that they'd just shut up
well you were the dull sound of sharp math when you were alive
no ones gonna play the harp when you die
and if i had a nickel for every damn dime
i'd have half the time
do you mind?
everyone's afraid of their own life
if you could be anything you want i bet you'd be disappointed, am i right?
it's hard to remember we're alive for the first time
it's hard to remember we're alive for the last time
it's hard to remember to live before you die
it's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time
it's hard to remember what it takes such a short time
it's hard to remember to live before you die
it's hard to remember
my mom's god is a woman
and my mom she is a witch
i like this
my hell comes from inside comes from inside myself
why fight this
everyone's afraid of their own life
if you could be anything you want i bet you'd be disappointed, am i right?



song: life like weeds
in this life like weeds you're just a rock to me
you're just a rock to me, you're just a rock to me
i could have told you all that i love you
and in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from
i could have told you all that i love you
but in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die
i could have told you all that i love you
and on the day that you die you'll see the people you met
i could have told you all that i love you
and in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been
i wish i could have told you i love you
in this life like weeds
eyes need us to see
hearts need us to bleed
in this life like weeds you're a rock to me
i know where you're from
but where do you belong?
in this life like weeds you're the good i breed
in this life like weeds you're a rock to me
in this life like weeds you're a rock to me
i know where you're from
but where do you belong?
in this life like weeds
eyes need us to see
hearts need us to bleed
in this life like weeds you're the good i breed
all this talking all the time of the year
fills up until there's nothing left to breathe
and you think you feel most everything
and you know that our hearts are just made out of strings
to be pulled
strings to be pulled
so you think you've figured out everything
but we know that our hearts are just made out of strings
to be pulled
strings to be pulled
all this talking all the time, and the air
fills up until there's nothing left to breathe
up until there's nothing left to speak
up into the better parts of space



song: what people are made of
when we talk?
we better hope that it never cracks
all hell hit the ground all hard and under his back?
and the ground at the bottom of the ocean
where the dead do rise
you need proof? i got proof at the surface
you can watch them float by
way in back of the room there sits a cage
it says to come, but you can win if you forget to change
which you never can do
cause it's time to constantly change
for lack or luck--i guess that is the same
it's first page in the book of blue, it read:
"if you read this page, then that'll mean you're dead."
but by then it was too late
and he wound up on an island of shells
and bones, dead bodies and left all alone
and the one thing you can tell about human beings is this:
they ain't made of nothing but water and shit