Modest Mouse

"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 when time and life shook hands and said goodbye. When the earth folded in on itself. And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?"

"You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?"

"Now the blow's been softened Since we are our own damn coffins. Well, everybody's talkin' 'bout their short list, And everybody's talkin' 'bout death! You were layin' 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."

"I could buy myself a reason,I could sell myself a job, I could hang myself for treason, oh i am my own dear god Ah-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha"

"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."

"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."

"If food needed pleasing you'd suck all the seasoning off."

"Bang your head like a gong cause you call it all wrong Move Your Tongue! Klang Klang, Klang Klang, Klang KLAAA-AAAAANG!"

"Drag me out of the sea and then teach me to breath Give me forced health 'til i wish death on myself Give me forced health 'til i wish death on myself Ah-ha-ha, Ah-boners"

"Treat me like disease, like the rats and fleas!"

"Well it woulda' been, coulda' been worse than you would ever know. Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio."

"Well, you told me about nowhere well it sounds like someplace I'd like to go."

"Well, the windshield was broken but I love the fresh air you know."

"I heard the world don't like us, it'll shake us just like we were a co-o-o-o-old."

"We've yet to crash, but we shall might as well enjoy it."

"I just wanted to catch the last laugh of the show."

"I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell you That you killed the better part of me."

"If you could just milk it for everything, I'd said what I'd said, and you know what I mean, But I still can't focus on anything."

"We kiss on the mouth, but still cough down our sleeves."

"Look at your face, like you killed in a dream, Truth is, you figured out everything, I think I know my geography pretty damn well."

"He said the groom's down on me, Because he ate the rice, It was well intentioned, but bad advice, Hell yeah"

"Let it break through, oh, let it break through (repeated line)."

"Open the curtain, And let in some sky. It's almost half past 2 AM; you can tell by the light. Open your window, and let in the atmosphere!"

"I was inverted, I mean converted, I mean I don't understand."

"message read on the bathroom wall, said "I don't feel at all like I fall," and we're losing all touch, losing all touch building a desert"

"The custom concern for the people, build up monuments and steeples to wear out our highs."

"I get up just about noon, My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk, Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job."

"Goes through the parking lot fields Didn't see no signs that they will yield and then thought, "This'll never end, this'll never end, this'll never stop.""

"I might, and you might, but neither of us do, though, and neither of us will. Yesterday night I broke every bone in my jaw. Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought."

"He don't remember. How it got there. It had a number Written on his forearm. It spelled disaster."

""Wow!" said the broken Californian down on the beach that used to be by the beach"

"Ground sure don't like the way it's treated, so now it's moving back to the sea"

"A memo left on the forehead of God, Sent sealed and signed by the saints who sang this song: "We're going union like they say. We'll buy the congregation. Then one day, you'll find us sitting in your chairs with big ideas of stocks and shares.""

"She ionizes and atomizes, then turns to sunlight"

"Fluorescent light bulbs will make an absence of dark, but the light just ain't there still"

"And she said: "I am feeling empty. The real lights can make you heavy, but never ever really empty. Fluorescent lights will always equal empty.""

"A surf rock band From the land of plenty Surf rock bands With no surf, just pine trees"

"Struck by being ashamed of your old space, just wanting that mean heat."

"You bleached your hair, and you pawned your skis, and then you sold out for the shade of the palm tree scene."

"I can't swim so I dog paddle (repeated line)."

"What you say and what you want again You can't get it because you don't get it, no."

"TV stained my memories. Yeah, I don't think or choose."

"Remember through sounds. Remember through smells. Remember through colors. Remember through towns. With fear and fascination on what was here and what's replacing them now."

"Interchanges, plazas, and malls, and crowded chain restaurants."

"More housing developments go up named after the things they replace. So welcome to Minnow Brook, and welcome to Shady Space. Well it all seems a little abrupt. No, I don't like this change of pace."

"Every sick fickle fucker, childhood's what makes you."

"Every planned occupation: Surefire disappointment up ahead. Until they treat you like desert See mirages of friendship"

"I don't feel, and it feels fine (repeated line)."

"Here's the soon-to-be anchor. Build bridges to nothing; you'll get nowhere."

"Get too creative ordering our drinks, and mine stinks, mine stinks."