The Moon&Antarctica

Modest Mouse The Moon&Antarctica Lyrics
1.Life Like Weeds

In this life like weeds you're just a rock to me
You're just a rock to me, you're just a rock to me
I could have told you all that I love you
And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from
I could have told you all that I love you
But in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you'll die
I could have told you all that I love you
And on the day that you die you'll see the people you met
I could have told you all that I love you
And in the faces you see, you'll see just who you've been
I wish I could have told you I love you
In this life like weeds eyes need us to see
Hearts need us to bleed
In this life like weeds you're a rock to me
I know where you're from
But where do you belong?
In this life like weeds you're the good I breed
In this life like weeds you're a rock to me
In this life like weeds you're a rock to me
I know where you're from
But where do you belong?
In this life like weeds eyes need us to see
Hearts need us to bleed
In this life like weeds you're the good I breed
All this talking all the time of the year
fills up until there's nothing left to breathe
And you think you feel most everything
And you know that our hearts are just made out of strings
to be pulled
Strings to be pulled
So you think you've figured out everything
But we know that our hearts are just made out of strings
to be pulled
Strings to be pulled
All this talking all the time, and the air
fills up until there's nothing left to breathe
Up until there's nothing left to speak
Up into the better parts of space


2.Third Planet

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart/I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over.
My boss just quit the job says he's goin out to find blind
spots and he'll do it.
The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched by an
eye in the sky that can't be stopped.
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that
eyes hand.
Your heart felt good it was drippin pitch and made of wood.
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me.
Outside naked, shiverin looking blue, from the cold
sunlight that's reflected off the moon.
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
to be three and not just two.
And that's how the world began.
And that's how the world will end.
A 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the
water, didn't know then was it a son was it a daughter.
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
around in the water in the oceans in our bodies and
another had been found another ocean on the planet
given that our blood is just like the Atlantic.
And how.
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go
straight long enough you'll end up where you were.
Your heart felt good it was drippin pitch and made of wood.
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me.
Outside naked, shiverin looking blue, from the cold
sunlight that's reflected off the moon.
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
to be three and not just two.
And that's how the world began.
And that's how the world will end.


3.Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

We're going down the road to tiny cities made of ashes
I'm going to hit you on the face
I'm going to punch you in your glasses, oh no
I just got a message that said
'Yeah, hell has frozen over.'
I got a phone call from the Lord saying,
'Hey boy, get a sweater, right now.'
So we're drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' coca coca cola
I can feel it rolling right on down
oh right on down my throat now
as we're headed down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes
I'm gonna get dressed up in plastic
Gonna shake hands with the masses, OH NO!
Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
Does anybody know a way?
We're going down the road to tiny cities made of ashes
I'm going to hit you on the face
I'm going to punch you in your glasses
I'm wearing myself a T-shirt that says
'The world is my ashtray'
Our hearts pump dust and our hair's all grey
And I just got a message that said
'Yeah, hell has frozen over.'
I got a phone call from the Lord saying,
'Hey boy, get a sweater, right now!'
Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
Does anybody know a way?
We're drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' drink' coca coca cola
I can feel it rolling right on down
oh right on down my throat
as we're headed down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes
I'm going to lay down (at the spa?) where they coat you in
molasses
Right now!
Does anybody know a way that a body could get away?
Does anybody know a way?


4.Lives

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?


5.I Came as a Rat

Well I don't know but I've been told
he's baking cakes inside our souls
Stayed awake, took a nap
Got myself my bottles back
I'm breaking down out on the street
Walkin' round my own bare feet
I do not need you to tell me
That I'm not a cat
I caught a rat, we caught some air
He's never gonna cut his hair
He takes more time to make a fake
We now swim down in the lake
And wash the dirt off our intentions
Paddle on with our bad inventions
I came as ice, I came as a whore
I came as advice that came too sure
I came as gold, I came as crap
I came too clean, and I came as a rat
It takes a long time, but God dies too
But not before he'll stick it too you
I don't know but I've been told
You'll never die and you never grow old
I came as a call, I came as flat
I came too soon so I came back
I came as flowers, I came as nice
I came as dirt, and I came as a surprise
It takes a long time, but God dies too
But not before he'll stick it too you
I don't know but I've been told
You'll never die and you never grow old


6.Dark Center of the Universe

Well I might
disintegrate into the thin air if you like
And I'm not
the dark center of the universe like you thought
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass that I am
And I'm pretty damn sure that anyone can
Easily, equally fuck ya over
Well God said something but he didn't mean it
Everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
Dry and wet ice, they both melt
and you're equally cheated
Well it took a lot of work...
Well an endless ocean landing on an endless desert
Well it's funny as hell, but no one laughs when they get there
If you can't see the thin air
Why the hell should you care?
Well it took a lot of work...
Well sure you'll tell me you've got nothing to say
And I went and shook hands the other day
If you can't see the thin air then
What the hell is in your way?


7.What People are Made of

(When we talk?) we better hope that it never cracks
All hell hit the ground all hard and under his back?
And the ground at the bottom of the ocean
where the dead do rise
You need proof? I got proof at the surface
You can watch them float by
Way in back of the room there sits a cage
It says to come, but you can win if you forget to change
Which you never can do
cos it's time to constantly change
For lack or luck---I guess that is the same
It's first page in the book of blue, it read:
'If you read this page, then that'll mean you're dead.'
By but then it was too late
And he wound up on an island of shells
and bones, dead bodies and left (all alone)
And the one thing you can tell about human beings is this:
They ain't made of nothing but water and shit


8.A Different City

I want to live in the city with no friends or family
I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV
I will remember to remember to forget you
Forgot me, I'm gonna look out the window of my color TV
Through the cracks in the wall
Slow motion for all
Dripped out of the bar
So (sports?) is nothing at all
I'm watching TV
I guess that's a solution
They gave me a receipt that said I didn't buy nothing
So rust is a fire
And our blood oxidizes
My eyes roll around all around on the carpet
Oh hit the deck
It's the decal man
standing upside down and talking out of his pants

Through the cracks in the wall
Slow motion for all
Left holding the ball and a part for your car


9.Gravity Rides Everything

Oh gotta see gotta know right now.
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all.
Oh gotta see gotta know right now.
What's that writing on your shelf in the bathrooms and
the bad motels
No one really cared for it at all
Not the gravity plan.
Early Early in the morning it pulls all on down my sore feet
I wanna go back to sleep.
In the motions and the things that you say.
It all will fall, fall right into place
As fruit drops, flesh it sags
Everything will fall/right into place
When we die some sink and some lay
But at least I don't see you float away
And all the spilt milk sex and weight
It all will fall, fall right into place.


10.Wild Pack of Family Dogs

a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard one day
my father got his gun, shot it up they ran away ok
a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard
and as my own dog ran away with them i didnt say much of
anything at all
a wild pack of family dogs came runnin through the yard
as my little sister played the dogs took her away
and i guess she was eaten up ok yeah
my mothers cryin' blood dust now
my daddy quit his job today
i guess he was fired but thats ok
and im sitting outside by my mud lake
waiting for the pack to take me away
right after i die, the dogs start running up towards the glowing
sky
they will receive their rewards


11.Paper Thin Walls

These walls are paper thin and everyone hears every little sound
Everyone's a voyeurist, they're watching me watch them watch me
right now
They're shaking hands, they're shaking in their shoes, oh Lord
don't shake me down
Everyone wants to move them and half of everyone else moves
around
It's been agreed the whole world stinks so no one's taking
showers anymore
Laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank
I can't be blamed for nothing anymore
It's been a long time since you've been around
Laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank
Tow the line to tax the time you know that you don't owe
I can't be a fool for everyone that I don't know


12.Perfect Disguise

Well you've got the perfect disguise and you're looking OK
From the bottom of the best to the worst well what can I say
Cos you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more
No, but I know the score
Need me to fall down so you can climb up
Some fool-ass ladder. Well, good luck.
I hope, hope there's something better up there
Cos you cocked your head to shoot me down
And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more
No, cos I know the score
Broke my back


13.Alone Down There

How do, how do you do?
My name is you
Flies, they all gather round me and you too
You can't see anything well
You ask me what size it is, not what I sell
The flies they all gather round me and you too
Well I don't want you to be alone down there
to be alone down there to be alone
Well the devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit
He fed me a line, and I'll probably regret it
I don't want you to be alone down there
to be alone down there to be alone


14.The Cold Part

So long to this cold, cold part of the world
So long to this bone-bleached part of the world
So long to this salt-soaked part of the world
I stepped down as president of Antarctica
Can't blame me
Don't blame me
So long to this sad, sad part of the world
So long