Modest Mouse
195 quotes
Biography
"I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell you <br/> That you killed the better part of me."
"If you could just milk it for everything, <br/> I'd said what I'd said, and you know what I mean, <br/> 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, <br/> Truth is, you figured out everything, <br/> I think I know my geography pretty damn well."
"He said the groom's down on me, <br/> Because he ate the rice, <br/> It was well intentioned, but bad advice, <br/> Hell yeah"
"Let it break through, oh, let it break through (repeated line)."
"Open the curtain, <br/> And let in some sky. <br/> It's almost half past 2 AM; <br/> you can tell by the light. <br/> Open your window, <br/> and let in the atmosphere!"
"I was inverted, <br/> I mean converted, <br/> I mean I don't understand."
"message read on the bathroom wall, <br/> said "I don't feel at all like I fall,"<br/> and we're losing all touch, <br/> losing all touch<br/> 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, <br/> My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk, <br/> Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job."
"Goes through the parking lot fields<br/> Didn't see no signs that they will yield and then thought,<br/> "This'll never end, this'll never end, this'll never stop.""
"I might,<br/> and you might,<br/> but neither of us do, though,<br/> and neither of us will.<br/> Yesterday night I broke every bone in my jaw.<br/> Thought so hard it's the last thing I ever thought."
"He don't remember. <br/> How it got there. <br/> It had a number <br/> Written on his forearm. <br/> It spelled disaster."
"A memo left on the forehead of God, <br/> Sent sealed and signed by the saints who sang this song: <br/> "We're going union like they say. <br/> We'll buy the congregation. <br/> Then one day, you'll find us sitting in your chairs with big ideas of stocks and shares.""
"She ionizes and atomizes, <br/> then turns to sunlight"
"Fluorescent light bulbs will <br/> make an absence of dark, <br/> but the light just ain't there still"
"And she said:<br/> "I am feeling empty. <br/> The real lights can make you heavy, <br/> but never ever really empty.<br/> Fluorescent lights will always equal empty.""
"A surf rock band <br/> From the land of plenty <br/> Surf rock bands<br/> With no surf, just pine trees"
"Struck by being ashamed of your old space, <br/> just wanting that mean heat."
"You bleached your hair, and you pawned your skis, <br/> 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<br/>You can't get it because you don't get it, no."
"TV stained my memories. <br/> Yeah, I don't think or choose."
"Remember through sounds. <br/> Remember through smells.<br/> Remember through colors. <br/> Remember through towns. <br/> With fear and fascination <br/> on what was here and what's replacing them now."