Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock Isaac Brock (musician) , drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) joined the band in May 2006,... [read more] - Mice Eat Cheese
what are you doing here?I came to get a case of factory outlet beer, thenI go homeI don't feel like I want to be by myselfmice eat cheesefor the most part, they do as they please thencat comes homemice don't feel very...
- Birds Vs. Worms
Self pity me so pitifulYou can see that birds and worms don't get alongSelf righteous me so wrongYou can see that we don't have to get alongSelf pity me so pitifulYou can see that birds and worms do not agreeAnd we...
- Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes
We're goin' down the road towards tiny cities made of ashesGonna hit you on the face gonna punch you in your glasses. Oh no!I just got a message that said "Yeah hell is freezin' over"I Got a phone call from the Lord...
- Grey Ice Water
You're standing by your grey ice waterout in the wind above ground out in the weather You had yourself a crazy loverbecoming frozen trying hard to forget herYou got a job up in Alaskait's easy to save what the cannery...
- You're The Good Things (It's Alright To Die)
You were right im hangin round becauseLight and sound wont seperate us from themYou were right im underground becuaseslight of hand can't seperate your body from the dirt your standing on todayYou're the good things...
- Neverending Math Equation
I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years oldAnd oh my God I feel so damn oldI don't really feel anythingOn a plane, I can see the tiny lights belowAnd oh my God, they look so aloneDo they really feel anything?Oh my...
- Whenever You Breathe Out I Breathe In
Hey, haven't seen you around in awhile..Hey, haven't seen you around in awhile..Hey, haven't seen you around in awhile..Hey...I didn't go to work for a month,I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight,I haven't...
- Medication
This is the part of me that needs medicationThis is the part of me that believes in heaven....thinks outer space is all dead....wishes it was with it....'s trying to be funny....loves my parents...thinks that ants are...
- It Always Rains On A Picnic
No, I don't supposeDownpour, downpourIt always rains on a picnicDownpour, downpourDon't let go quite yetDownpour, downpour
- Night On The Sun
So, turn off the light 'cause it's light of the sun You're hopelessly hopeful I hope so, for you Freeze your blood and then stab it into in two Stab your blood into me and blend I eat my own blood and get filled up...
- Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Oh noose tied myself in, tied myself too tightLooking kind of anxious in your cross armed stanceLike a bad tempered prom queen at a homecoming danceAnd I claim I'm not excited with my life any moreSo I blame this...
- Other People's Lives
this is how it seems to beother people's lives seem more interesting cuz they aint minewell i'm fed up and i need to goout of existance or just down the road forever..later that night on the side of the roadi'm outta...
- Four Fingered Fisherman
You're in the back seat and you say to yourself"OK it doesn't matter anyway"it's weeds pulling weeds and your Blaming yourselfOk we're all indifferent in our own waysYou're in trouble now and you say to yourself"Ok my...
- From Point A To Point B (Infinity)
Point A To Point B oh I Knowlots of points with no points in between, for meSo lonely but never alone I knowI'm at my house but I wish that I were at homePoint A To Point B oh I knowbut no back passage scheduled for...
- Secret Agent X-9
Got a racecar grin and a calculationAnd every gun for a secret agentDefunct that timebomb at the space stationHey, Secret Agent X-9 why don't you drop me a line?And say, would it cost you your jobto say what was in...
- Path Of Least Resistance
gone fishin'i'm takin'the path of least resistance.
- Classy Plastic Lumber
Buh duh buh buh buhBud duh buh buh buh buh buh buh buhYou go right through meI go right through but I'm about toGo on reminding you I am about to see you through itBuh duh buh buh buhBud duh buh buh buh buh duh buh...
- 5-4-3-2-1... Lisp Off
whatcha do whatcha do whathca do with your own lifewhatcha see whatcha see whatcha see as an astronaut, okaywhatcha eat whatcha eat whatcha eat as an alienwhatcha want whaddaya want from outer space
- Every Penny Fed Car
So you spilled every last penny into your carAnd it still won't take you where you want to goSo you spilled every last penny into your carAnd it still won't take you where you very far at allSo you spilled every last...
- Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark
Looks like accounting's not accountableFor anything or anyone at allJohnny took the fallJohnny took the fallI know the horse was fast, ran the real big trackOne by one, without heart attack, oh noA type line just went...
- Dukes Up
So you wonder howget em' up, put em upget your dukes up nowgot no time no money, that's whyget em up, put em upget your dukes up nowSoda fountain crowdbutton up, shut em' upgettin' fed up nowgot no time, no money,...
- Think Long
ping-pongsit and think for a while and you'll realize that you'll still die.if you're not thinking at all i dont know why you're alive.ping-pong
- Blue Cadet-3, Do You Connect?
Blue Cadet-3, do you connect?Blue Cadet-3, do you connect?Blue Cadet-3eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........do you connect
- Float On
I backed my car into a cop car the other dayWell, he just drove off - sometimes life's okayI ran my mouth off a bit too much, ah what did I say?Well, you just laughed it off and it was all okayAnd we'll all float on...
- Satin In A Coffin
You were laying on the carpet like you're satin in a coffin. You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?" Yeah right now, but not that often. Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are...
- Bukowski
Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, that every night turns out to be A little more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole? God who'd...
- Dance Hall
I'm gonna dance all Dace Hall everyday. I'm gonna dance all Dance Hall every day. I'm gonna dance all Dance Hall every day. Well I'm giving myself another one, I have too much to say. Dance all Dance Hall every day....
- I've Got It All (Most)
ive got it almost. ive got it all almost all figured out. well, always when i get there, always when i get there, all the pieces they just fall apart and out
i cant hear you, i cant hear you talk about your trans...
- Black Cadillacs
And it's true we named our children after towns that we've never been to. And it's true that the clouds just hung around like black Cadillacs outside a funeral. And we were done, done, done with all the ***, ***,...
- The Good Times Are Killing Me
The good times are killing me. Here we go! Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on. Shrug off shortsighted false excitement and oh what can I say? Have one, have twenty more "one mores" and oh it does...
- Blame It On The Tetons
Blame it on the Tetons. Yeah, I need a scapegoat now. No my dog won't bite you, though it had the right to. You oughta give her credit cuz she knows I would've let it happen. Blame it on the weekends. God I need a...
- One Chance
We have one chance. One chance to get everything right. We have one chance, one chance. And if we're lucky we might. My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me. I just don't think that it's right. I've...
- The View
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....
- This Devil's Workday
All those people that you know. All those people that you know. All those people that you know, floatin' in the river are logs. I could buy myself a reason. I could sell myself a job. I could hang myself on treason....
- Bury Me With It
We were shootin' at a mound of dirt. Well nothing was broken, nothing was hurt. But I probably really should have been at work. But if my freetime's gone, would you promise me this? That you will please bury me with...
- Sunspots In The House Of The Late Scapegoat
it was on the rotating eyesit was all on the same postcardit was all on the same damn shirt said to sleep in the same Sear's camp houseit was all in the great state parksit was all on the same Greyhoundit was all so...
- Karma's Payment
Uh-oh down lowI am not who I want to beI probably will not ever beI drove my car on June 14thI drove it right on down the streetI had not had any sleepSo I ate Minithins to stay awakeYou crashed your car right into...
- The Waydown
On the waydown they saw a lot they don't rememberand if you asked them how, they couldn't say how they got thereand if you want them now you could just pull on the leverand say, "I'm hung up on gravity."you move your...
- Summer
wake-up we're stealing cars1996 1997 1998 we're all waiting for the year 2000just the smell on the summer can make me fall in lovewe go to the parties listen to the DJ'sdance dance dance and go crazyshe's a party...
- Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY/MECHANICAL BIRDSAnd I said you shouldn't make facts out of opinionsHe said that I was rightYou're right I knew that I wasAnd I'd hate to see anybody thank youBut I'd like to see you fail saying...
- Beach Side Property
"Wow!" said the broken Californian downOn the beach that used to be by the beachTown hasn't moved but's getting closer, losing groundMaking better views and close relaxing soundsGround sure don't like the way it's...
- Tundra/Desert
Every sick, fickle ***erChildhood's what makes yaTill they treat ya like tundraWeigh those opinionsMore like air than leadEvery planned occupationSurefire disappointment up aheadTill they treat ya like desertSee...
- Exit Does Not Exist
Does not Exist, Take an ExitI hear voices insinuatingFeeds me lyrics to this song that I am sayingSunlight 7:20 PM, early SeptemberStanding looking at a photographThat you do not remember being takenYou look out of...
- Might
I mightAnd you mightBut neither of us do, thoughAnd neither of us willI broke every bone in my goddamn jawThat's a lot it's the last one I ever got(?)I mightAnd you mightBut neither of us do, thoughAnd neither of us...
- Head South
A surf rock man from the land of plentySurf rock mess with no surf but pine treesStruck by being ashamed of your old spaceJust wanting that mean heatYou bleached your hairAnd you pawned your skisAnd then you sold out...
- Dog Paddle
I'm down on the water(I'm down on the water)I don't know so I don't bother.(I don't know so I don't bother)Looking out the window of my dad's old Chevy.(Lookin' out the window of my dad's old Chevy.)Eats a lot of gas...
- Edit The Sad Part
Sometimes all I really want to feel is loveSometimes I'm angry that I feel so angrySometimes my feelings get in the wayOf what I really feel I needed to sayIf you stand in a circleThen you'll all have a back to...
- Novocaine Stain
When I can work out how it wasThen I'll tell youTV stained my memories, yeahI don' think that she's...Remember through soundsRemember through smellsRemember through colorsRemember through townsWith fear and...
- Space Travel Is Boring
Won herself a pass to some far off moonIt was second class but what's to loseAnd looking out her window she could more than assumeThat you can't see air or timeShe's the only rocketeer in the whole damn placeThey gave...
- Custom Concern
Their custom concern for the peopleBuild up the monuments and steeplesTo wear out our eyesI get up just about noonMy head sends a message for meto reach for my shoes then walkGotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta...
- She Ionizes And Atomizes
She ionizes and atomizesThen turns to sunlightHe realizes and itemizesPulls harder than gravityShe ionizes and atomizesThen turns to sunlightFlourescent lightbulbs will makeAn absense of dark, butThe light just aint...
- Lounge
He don't remember, how it got thereIt had a number, written on his forearmIt spelled disasterAll hoping, all hoping for dancingHe was looking, and looking stunningHis clothes reflected light, all rightShe sat, she sat...
- Ohio
Took a bus straight to BaltimoreOn the way he took a napDropped off a note that said "I'm giving this note back"PS- There's a lot going on underneathThere's roots there's pipes, there's drainage leaksYou're on, you're...
- Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy
So you brush you hair downand you let your makeup dryStupidand you let the ball dropWhy did you do it?Why did you do it?and you let your bridges burnwith your Secretive TimingShe(He?)Was a Manic Depressive Named...
- A Different City
I want to live in the city with no friends or familyI'm gonna look out the window of my color TVI will remember to remember to forget youForgot meI'm gonna look out the window of my color TVThrough the cracks in the...
- I Came As A Rat
- Dark Center Of The Universe
Well I mightdisintegrate into the thin air if you likeAnd I'm notthe dark center of the universe like you thoughtWell it took a lot of work to be the***that I amAnd I'm pretty damn sure that anyone canEasily,...
- The Stars Are Projectors
In the last second of life, they're gonnashow you howHow they run this show.Sure. Run it into the groundThe stars are projectors, yeah.Projectin our lives down to thisplanet earthEveryone wants a double feature,...
- Lives
- Perfect Disguise
Well you've got the perfect disguise and you're looking okayFrom the bottom of the best to the worst well what can I sayCause you cocked your head to shoot me downAnd I don't give a damn about you or this town no...
- The Cold Part
So long to this cold, cold part of the worldSo long to this bone-bleached part of the worldSo long to this salt-soaked part of the worldI stepped down as president of AntarcticaCan't blame meDon't blame meSo long to...
- Paper Thin Walls
These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little soundEveryone's a voyeurist, they're watching me watch them watch me right nowThey're shaking hands, they're shaking in their shoes, oh Lord don't shake me...
- Sleepwalking
I fell in love andI needed a roadmapTo find out where you livedSo excited nowSleepwalking, cuz I'm sleepwalkingThe white trash boysListen to the headphonesBlasting white noiseIn the convenience store parking lotI hung...
- All Night Diner
Yeah, yes, yesHave I told yaYou could really get it on?I was at an all night dinerThe sign said, "Triple X"But they were talking about root beerI'm just sitting downThinking about nothingLooking at the thin...
- Interstate 8
Spent 18 hours waiting stoned for spaceI spent the same 18 hours in the same damn placeIm on a road shaped like a figure 8Im going nowhere, but Im guaranteed to be lateYou go out like a riptideYou know that ball has...
- Breakthrough
I got one two three fourFive, six, six, sixRunning round the neighborhoodPerjorative, "Jinx." he said the groom'sDown on me cuz he ate the riceIt was well intentioned but bad adviceHell yeah, yeah, yeahLet it...
- Dramamine
Travelling swallowing DramamineFeeling spaced breathing out listerineI'd said what I'd said that I'd tell yaAnd that you'd killed the better part of meIf you could just milk it for everythingI've said what I'd said...
- Here It Comes
Walk to your house on my lunch breakHere it comesCome inside and pour a drinkYou'll probably tell me everything you thinkHere it comesThe place and the time that we knewthat things could go wrongThe grass grows...
- So Much Beauty In The Dirt
Out of breath and out of cash, find yourself watching M.A.S.H., every night on the couch. Woman says let's take a drive down south, roll down the windows and open our mouths taste where we are and play the music loud....
- Jesus Christ Was An Only Child
Well Jesus Christ was an only childHe went down to the riverAnd he drank and smiledAnd his dad was oh-so-madShould have insured that planet Before it crashedWorking real hard to make internet cashWork your fingers to...
- Bankrupt On Selling
Well all the Apostles-they're sitting in swingssaying "I'd sell off my Savior for a set of new rings,and some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era"So all of the businessers in their...
- Heart Cooks Brain
Slow walkIt's land mineIt's coal mineIt's a bad thoughtOn the way to god don't knowmy brain's the burger and my heart's the coalI'm trying to get my head cleari push things out through my mouth i get refilled through...
- Lounge (Closing Time)
She was going with a cinematographerEveryone knew that he was really a ***grapherThey went down to the dance and grind And everybody was feeling fineShe was talking with syllable lispAnd everybody she knew was gonna...
- Cowboy Dan
Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy sceneHe goes to the reservation drinks and gets meanHe's gonna start a warHe hops in his pickup puts the pedal to the floorAnd says "I got mine but I want more"Well,...
- Baby Blue Sedan
A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedanAnd I am doing the best that I canAll the eunuchs, they were standing in rowssinging, "Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can."Sad song, last dance and...
- Trailer Trash
Eating snow flakes with plastic forksAnd a paper plate of course, you think of everythingShort love with a long divorceAnd a couple of kids of courseThey don't mean anythingLive in trailers with no classGoddamn I hope...
- Doin' The Cockroach
I was in heavenI was in hellBelieve in neitherBut fear them as wellThis one's a doctorThis one's a lawyerThis one's a cash fiendtaking your moneyBack of the metroRide on the greyhoundDrunk on the AmtrakPlease shut...
- Out Of Gas
Out of gasOut of roadOut of carI don't know how I'm going to go andI had a drink the other dayOpinions were like kittensI was giving them away andI had a drink the other dayI had a lot to sayAnd I saidYou will come...
- Convenient Parking
Soon the chain reaction started in the parking lotWaiting to bleed on the big streetsThat bleed out on the highways andOff to others cities built to store andsell these (plastic) rocksWell aren't you feeling real...
- Long Distance Drunk
Hang it up now or neverHang it up again(Hang it up now or never)Hang it up now or neverHang it up againHang it up now or neverHang it up againDoesn't seem like anything you're saying or doing or doingIs making any...
- Dirty Fingernails
Dirty dirty fingernailsout of the shower onto the bathroom floorInto the kitchen underneath the casseroledirty dirty fingernails...
- The Fruit That Ate Itself
Take a drive in the wrong hand laneGot bad breath talking bout fresh rain my hand my hand gonna shake the sameare you gonna be your own goddamn best friendwell we taught the fruit how to eat itselfit was hanging out...
- Alone Down There
How do, how do you do?My name is you Flies, they all gather around me and you tooYou can't see anything wellYou ask me what size it is, not what I sellThe flies, they all gather around me and you tooI don't want you...
- Wild Pack Of Family Dogs
A wild pack of family dogs came runniní through the yard one dayMy father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away okA wild pack of family dogs came runniní through the yardAnd as my own dog ran away with them, I...
- Stars Are Projectors
In the last second of life, they're gonna show you howHow they run this show, sure, run it into the groundThe stars are projectors, yeahProjectiní our lives down to this planet EarthThe stars are projectors,...
- Life Like Weeds
And in this life like weeds, you're just a rock to meI could have told you all that I love youAnd in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're fromI could have told you all that I love youAnd in the faces...
- 3rd Planet
Everything that keeps me together is falling apartI´ve got this thing that I consider my only artof *** people over.My boss just quit the job says he goin to find blind spots and he´ll do it.The 3rd planet is...
- Gravity Rides Everything
Oh, Gotta see, gotta know right nowWhat's that writing on your everythingIt isn't anything at allOh, Gotta see, gotta know right nowWhat's that writing on your shelfIn the bathrooms and the bad motelsNo one really...
- What People Are Made Of
Rag weed tall better hope that his ladder donít crackOr heíll hit the ground low, hard and out of his backAt the battle at the bottom of the ocean, well the deaddo riseYou need proof I got proof at the surface you...
- Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
Well all's not wellbut i'm told that it'll all be quite niceyou'll be drowned in boots like Mafiabut your feet will still float like Christ'sand i'll be damnedthey were righti'm drowning upside downmy feet afloat like...
- Polar Opposites
Polar opposites don't push awayIt's the same on the weekends as the rest of the daysAnd I know I should go but I'll probably stayAnd that's all you can do about some thingsI'm trying to drink away the part of the...
- Ocean Breathes Salty
Your body may be gone. I'm gonna carry you in, In my head, in my heart, in my soul. And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again. Well I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, Don't think so. Well that is that...
- The World At Large
Ice-age heat wave, can't complain. If the world's at large, why should I remain? Walked away to another plan. Gonna find another place, maybe one I can stand. I move on to another day, to a whole new town with a whole...
- King Rat
Well! Well! Well! Well...We spun like birds on fireRight down towards the residenceAnd I took all that I desiredEven crooks have to pay the rent...We swam like rats on fireRight, right down the reservoirOh-oh, we took...
- Shit Luck
This plane is definately crashingThis boat is obviously sinkingThis building's totally burning downAnd my, and my (a whole bunch)And my heart has slowly dried up
- Truckers Atlas
I'm going to Coloradoto unload my headI'm going to New York Cityand thats in New York, friendsI'm going to Arizona*** on the rocks all warm and redand we bledand the writing in the stall said"we write our maps in the...
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