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Modest Mouse - Blame It On The Tetons

Modest Mouse - Blame It On The Tetons Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

Blame It On The Tetons Lyrics

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 'cause she knows I would've let it happen.

Blame it on the weekends. God I need a cola now.
Oh we mumble loudly, wear our shame so proudly.
Wore our blank expressions, trying to look interesting.
Blame it all on me 'cause God I need a cold one now.

All them eager actors gladly taking credit
For the lines created by the people tucked away from sight
Is just a window from the room we're bound to.
If you find a way out, oh would you just let me know how?
Would you just let me know how?

Blame it on the web but the spider's your problem now.
Language is for liquid that we're all dissolved in.
Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem.
Blame it on the Tetons. God, I need a scapegoat now.

Everyone's a building burning
With no one to put the fire out.
Standing at the window looking out,
Waiting for time to burn us down.
Everyone's an ocean drowning
With no one really to show how.
They might get a little better air
If they turned themselves into a cloud.

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GALLUCCI, DANN / PELOSO, TOM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Blame It On The Tetons

The meaning of the name "Teton" has been debated widely as to whether it means breasts, a mountain range, or a large Indian tribe that hunted buffalo.

Isaac Brock's lyrics seem to reflect on human behavior (and like in many of his other songs his own behavior). He sings about how as people, we like to consider ourselves perfect, so when we make mistakes we are very quick to blame others. He then goes into how the worlds morals confuse him (like actors being paid and becoming famous for other people's work). In this sense, "teton" could refer to this Indian tribe that was said to have caused "The marketing era," and Brock is sarcastically blaming them because he sees everyone else around him wanting to blame everyone else.

Modest Mouse - The View

Modest Mouse - The View Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

Modest Mouse - The View Lyrics

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.

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GALLUCCI, DANN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The View

The message of this song: Making mistakes and learning from them is part of life. You want something, you think it's great, but then realize that someone else has something better. Beauty is everywhere but painful experiences must be endured in order for one to feel that the beauty is really there. Life goes on, strife is endured, but in the end everything turns out how it is supposed to be.

The View Lyrics

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.

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GALLUCCI, DANN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The View

The message of this song: Making mistakes and learning from them is part of life. You want something, you think it's great, but then realize that someone else has something better. Beauty is everywhere but painful experiences must be endured in order for one to feel that the beauty is really there. Life goes on, strife is endured, but in the end everything turns out how it is supposed to be.

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

Ocean Breathes Salty Lyrics

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 and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile.

The Ocean Breathes Salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old.
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I hope so.

Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. (You get away from me) You get away from me.
Collected my belongings and I left the jail.
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell.
I had to think awhile. (I had to think awhile) I had to think awhile.

Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky. (You missed, you missed)
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye. (You missed)
When the earth folded in on itself. (You missed)
And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell (You missed, you missed)
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." (You missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death? (You missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?

The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind.
Well I don't mind. I don't mind. How the hell could I mind?

Well that is that and this is this.
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.
You get away from me. (You get away from me) You get away from me.

Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,
when the ocean met the sky. (You missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GALLUCCI, DANN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Ocean Breathes Salty

Modest Mouse lead singer Isaac Brock wrote this about Death. It contains some references to the afterlife, including the line, "And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again."

Modest Mouse - Milo (Interlude)

Modest Mouse - Milo (Interlude) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

Milo (Interlude) Lyrics

Milo (Interlude)

This song is an interlude played on the organ. A baby laughs in the background. In order to play songs with an organ on their CD, the band built their own homemade instrument. It is a small, wooden organ without paint or finish. It was featured when the band played "Satin In A Coffin" on The David Letterman Show. "Satin In A Coffin" also features the organ.

Modest Mouse - Truckers Atlas

Modest Mouse - Truckers Atlas Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lonesome Crowded West
Released: 1997

Truckers Atlas Lyrics

I'm going to Colorado
To unload my head
I'm going to New York City
And that's in New York, friends

I'm going to Arizona
Sex on the rocks all warm and red
And we bled
And the writing in the stall said

"we write our maps in the stalls"
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did

This Truckers Atlas roads the ways
The freeways and highways don't know
The buzz from the bird on my dash
Road locomotive phone

I don't feel and I feel great
I sold my atlas by the freight stairs
I do lines and I crossed roads
I crossed the lines of all the great state roads

I'm going up
Going over to Montana
You got yourself a trucker's atlas
You knew you were all hot

Maybe you'll go and blow a gasket
You start at the northwest corner
Go down through California
Beeline you might drive three days

Three nights to the tip of Florida
Do you speak the lingo?
Oh Oh No. No no
How far does your road go?

Oh no, you don't know
I'm going to Colorado
To unload my head
I'm going to New York City

And that's in New York, friends
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did

And the writing in the salt says
We ride out to the stars
I'm going to Arizona
Sex on the rocks all warm and red

This truckers atlas roads the ways
The freeways and highways don't know
The buzz from the bird on my dash
Road locomotive phone

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GREEN, JEREMIAH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Truckers Atlas

This is about a guy who snorts lines of crystal meth on a road atlas: "I do lines and I crossed roads, I crossed the lines of all the great state roads." He says he's "going" to whichever state the atlas is opened to: "I'm going to Colorado, to unload my head... I'm going to Arizona, sex on the rocks all warm and red and we bled."

Modest Mouse - Dukes Up

Modest Mouse - Dukes Up Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sad Sappy Sucker
Released: 2001

Dukes Up Lyrics

Dukes Up

Modest Mouse singer/songwriter Isaac Brock seems to hate this song. When asked to play it at an Ugly Casanova (another band he has a hand in) concert, he responded, "I wouldn't play that, even for the band it was written for."

The song is about fistfights. In the old days, you could challenge someone to a fight by telling them to "Put up your dukes."

Modest Mouse - Lives

Modest Mouse - Lives Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Moon And Antarctica
Released: 2000

Lives Lyrics

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.
Not ones gonna play the harp when you die.
And if I had a nickel for every damn dime I might 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?

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GREEN, JEREMIAH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Lives

This song offers some view into lead singer Isaac Brock's mother. It is clear that he has issues with her: "My mom's God is a woman and my mom she is a witch." (thanks, Andrew - Abyss, PA)

Modest Mouse - Karma Payment Plan

Modest Mouse - Karma Payment Plan Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Fruit That Ate Itself
Released: 1997

Karma Payment Plan Lyrics

Karma Payment Plan

This song is about a man who makes a drug run to Los Angeles. He is delayed, and his car breaks down halfway there. He is picked up by a man on speed, but gets away. When he reaches LA, he gets "jacked in a really bad way." This song was most likely written while lead singer Isaac Brock was still on drugs. (thanks, Andrew - Abyss, PA)

Modest Mouse - Satin In A Coffin

Modest Mouse - Satin In A Coffin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

Satin In A Coffin Lyrics

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 you dead or are you sleepin'?
God I sure hope you are dead.

Well you disappeared so often
Like you dissolved into coffee.
Are you here right now
Or are there probably fossils under your meat?

Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
Are you dead or are you sleepin'?
God I sure hope you are dead.

Now the blow's been softened,
Since the air we breathe's our coffin.
Well now the blow's been softened,
Since the ocean is our coffin.
Often times you know our laughter
Is your coffin ever after.
And you know the blow's been softened,
Since the world is our coffin.
Well now the blow's been softened
Since we are our own damn coffins.
Well everybody's talkin' about their short lists.
Everybody's talkin' about death.

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 you dead or are you sleepin'?
God, I sure hope you are dead.

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC / JUDY, ERIC / GALLUCCI, DANN / PELOSO, TOM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Satin In A Coffin

Modest Mouse played this on The David Letterman Show in 2004. (thanks, Andrew - Abyss, PA)

Modest Mouse - This Devil's Workday

Modest Mouse - This Devil's Workday Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Released: 2004

This Devil's Workday Lyrics

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.
All the folks I know are gone.

All the people that you know.
All the people that you know.
All the people that you know
Floatin' in the river are logs.

So I ate the wedding cake
'til the whole damn thing was gone.
And I'm gonna drown the ocean.
Now ain't none o' that so wrong?

All the people that you know.
All those people that you know.
All those people that you know
Floatin' in the river are gone.

Gonna take this sack of puppies.
Gonna set it out to freeze.
Gonna climb around on all fours
'til all the blood falls out my knees.

All the people that you know.
All the people that you know.
All those people that you know
Floatin' in the river are logs.
Well let's take this potted plant
To the woods and set it free.
I'm gonna tell the owners
Just how nice that was of me.

I could buy myself a reason.
I could sell myself a job.
I could hang myself on treason.
Oh I am my own damn god.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Writer/s: BROCK, ISAAC
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This Devil's Workday

This is about a total jerk who believes in nothing ("I am my own damn God!") and makes people's lives miserable. He eats an entire wedding cake (assumably not his), kills a bunch of puppies, "sets free" someone else's potted plant and tells them how nice that was of him. (thanks, Andrew - Abyss, PA)