missed the boat...
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...Modest Mouse's...
absolutely love the chorus and how they sing it! can relate to some of the lyrics as well. do you think I should just download this song or are there other songs on the album that make it buy-worthy?
While we're on the subject
Could we change the subject now?
I was knocking on your ears
Don't worry, you were always out
Looking towards the future
We were begging for the past
Well, we know we had the good things
But those never seemed to last
Oh, please just last
Everyone's unhappy
Everyone's ashamed
Well we all just got caught looking
At somebody else's page
Well, nothing ever went
Quite exactly as we planned
Our ideas held no water
But we used them like a dam
Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
Saying, "Yes, this is a fine promotion"
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
Of course everyone goes crazy
Over such and such and such
We made ourselves a pillar
But we just used it as a crutch
We were certainly uncertain
At least I'm pretty sure I am
Well, we didn't need the water
But we just built that good goddamn
Oh, and I know this of myself
I'd assume as much for other people
Oh, and I know this of myself
We've listened more to life's end gong
Than the sound of life's sweet bells
Was it ever worth it?
Was there all that much to gain?
Well, we knew we'd missed the boat
And we'd already missed the plane
We didn't read the invite
We just danced at our own wake
All our favorites were playing
So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
A tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks
Sitting, drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat
Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves
But not the skills to make a shelf with
Oh, what useless tools ourselves
absolutely love the chorus and how they sing it! can relate to some of the lyrics as well. do you think I should just download this song or are there other songs on the album that make it buy-worthy?
While we're on the subject
Could we change the subject now?
I was knocking on your ears
Don't worry, you were always out
Looking towards the future
We were begging for the past
Well, we know we had the good things
But those never seemed to last
Oh, please just last
Everyone's unhappy
Everyone's ashamed
Well we all just got caught looking
At somebody else's page
Well, nothing ever went
Quite exactly as we planned
Our ideas held no water
But we used them like a dam
Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
Saying, "Yes, this is a fine promotion"
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell
Of course everyone goes crazy
Over such and such and such
We made ourselves a pillar
But we just used it as a crutch
We were certainly uncertain
At least I'm pretty sure I am
Well, we didn't need the water
But we just built that good goddamn
Oh, and I know this of myself
I'd assume as much for other people
Oh, and I know this of myself
We've listened more to life's end gong
Than the sound of life's sweet bells
Was it ever worth it?
Was there all that much to gain?
Well, we knew we'd missed the boat
And we'd already missed the plane
We didn't read the invite
We just danced at our own wake
All our favorites were playing
So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
A tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks
Sitting, drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat
Oh, and we carried it all so well
As if we got a new position
Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves
But not the skills to make a shelf with
Oh, what useless tools ourselves
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we didn't read the invite....we just danced at our own wake
always liked this one
all the tracks with mercer from the shins turned out really nice
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
See These Bones
See These Bones
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The CD itself has some catchy shit on it and I'm happy Isaac is half sober now but their older (pre-GNFPWLBN) albums are better.
Spitting Venom, Parting of the Sensory, and Dashboard are my favourites from this album.
Saw them again Monday night in a small venue in London (better than the Royal Albert Hall gig in May, for me).
They played mainly songs from the new album though, and only just over an hour and a half (PJ spoils it for everyone else!
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
Parting of the Sensory and Spitting Venom are two of my favorite songs i've heard this year from any band.
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I actually just got the cd with Missed the Boat on it from the library today because my a*s is poor. I like the title--We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank---a little dose of some morbid haha. Haven't checked out the whole album yet but looking forward to it.
That's a great line. I like that part too.
Being a non-native English speaker I find myself drawn to songs in the first place as a mixture of sound and words. Basically, it is only at a later stage that I catch some of the lyrics from listening non-stop to a song, and of course in the process create my own version/interpretation of it. Then if the music really appeals to me, I get to the trouble of reading up the full lyrics, to see what they're actually supposed to be about!
Having said that, I am really into Modest Mouse so now I am keen to understand what they sing about.
And talking of MM songs... what's Doing the Cockroach all about?? Love the song but really have no clue! Anyone that can share some light? Thanks!
the feeling i get from that song is Horseback riding on acid.... really picture that while you're listening to the part "Well, late last winter..Down below the equator
They had a summer that would make you blister...." when it kicks in. let me know what you think
as for the lyrics there.... skys the limit
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I have always felt doin the cockaroach was about surviving life. The craziness that is life from the little things on up to the big things.
Isn't there some old saying that after a nuclear attack the only thing alive is a cockaroach or something crazy like that? You can stomp on them but somehow they still escape adn stuff.
Kind of like life is a whirlwind spinning you around and you just try to survive all the shit that gets thrown at you the best you can.
I could be way off base but that is what i always took from it.
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I can see this point, and wow, this interpretation would be really apt for me right now! Yup, definitely.
Thanks!
lol, not sure I can picture a horseback riding on acid! But I'll give it a shot next time I play the song!
Thanks for your input!
the new album is probly the best of the year so far for me.
We agree once more. I don't get the love for this song.
The album is my second or third favorite of the year.