Modest Mouse – The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box – Lyrics

The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box by Modest Mouse

Open up a window

All the air, all the air is falling out

Eyes vacuum up light

Sound gets trapped by the mouth

What to do with the remainder

When the dents, the dents get hammered out

Then we'll travel through time

The world's an inventor with its work

Crawling, running, squirming 'round

Trees drop colorful fruits

Directly into our mouths

The world's an inventor

We're the dirtiest thing it's thought about

And we really don't mind

We'll probably never get there

Bring your sightseers, schoolteachers down

It's a watercolor weekend

All the trees are turning colors now

We'll probably never get there

Bring your candy taster time wasters around

And we'll fuck with their minds

The world composes

With his shirttails wrinkled, hanging out

Bang us together

See what sort of sounds we make right now

The world plays music

Playing skin on teeth inside of the mouth

What sort of sounds?

What lovely sounds come about?

We greased all the roads

We're floating in the light

We're gonna break these borders

We're gonna move in time

We greased all the roads

We're floating in the light

We're gonna break these borders

We're gonna travel time

We're gonna throw a party

All the ghosts of trees are coming out

Don't move in any direction

Wait until the light's inside of the cloud

You're gonna wanna see this

Don't bring your camera around

Watch sun and sawdust align

We greased all the roads

We're floating in the light

We're gonna break these borders

We're gonna pulse in time

We greased all the roads

We're floating in the light

We're gonna break these borders

We're gonna travel time

Hold up a window

All the air, all the air is falling out

Eyes vacuum up light

Sound gets trapped by the mouth

Our predecessor left this box

And something's clawing around

I think it really wants out

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Modest Mouse – The Best Room – Lyrics

The Best Room by Modest Mouse

Let loose with your charms

Go reckless, unharmed

We all signed the card:

"Get well, but don't you try too hard"

The lessons unlearned

Oh, this meeting is adjourned

Oh, these Western concerns

Hold my place in line while I get your turn

To the empty balconies we serenade

All the playgrounds where them kids don't get to play

Dirty parkies went and chased them all away

To the game consoles to fatten

The best room they have

Is the last room you want

The bathroom's outside

Police tape is tied

To the doorknobs of rooms

Nine through thirty-two

These Western concerns

We beg while we chew

These Western concerns are all I ever really learned to be concerned with

But don't you, don't you know it's hard

Feeling tired every time that you try?

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?

The family living upstairs must have a fleet of rider lawn mowers

While the novelist to my right's convinced that every woman's a whore

But he bothers me time and again

To set him up with my very best friends and I say, "What!"

Says he doesn't restate but he will not shut up!

Well don't you, don't you know it's hard

Feeling tired every time that you try?

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?

Don't you, don't you know

I ain't goin' to bed

Ring my head in the woods right now

Scan for some mycelium

And bring a little back to town

Well don't you, don't you know it's hard (I ain't goin' to bed)

Feeling tired every time that you try? (Ring my head in the woods right now)

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time? (Scan for some mycelium)

(And bring a little back to town)

Go reckless, unharmed

Yep, the shut-ins, they're well armed

Well, we all led the charge

'Til we ran aground in our party barge

Every little gift was just one more part of their grift

Oh, yeah, we know it

Oh, yeah, we know it

The best news that we got

Was some dumb hokum we'd all bought

Oh, though reckless, feeling great

We're the sexiest of all primates

Let loose with our charms

Shake our ass and wave our arms

All going apeshit

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