Quotes from Modest Mouse

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.

The good times are killing me

If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again.

Well see what you wanna see. You should see it all. Well take what you want from me. You deserve it all. Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved. Well I want a better place or just a better way to fall.

I was in heaven, I was in hell, Believe in neither, But fear them as well.

Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.

Someday you will die somehow and something's gonna steal your carbon.

we're all doctors trading sadness for numbness grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it

You're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake, You're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft, You're the loud sound of fun when I'm trying to sleep, You're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out.

Sometimes life's OK

The days get longer and the nights smell green I guess it's not surprising but it's spring and I should leave.

Sleepwalking I fell in love and I needed a roadmap To find out where you lived So excited now Sleepwalking, cuz I'm sleepwalking The white trash boys Listen to the headphones Blasting white noise In the convenience store parking lot I hung around there Wasting my time Hoping you'll stop by Cuz I'm sleepwalking, I'm sleepwalking A mutual friend's parents Left town for a week So we raided their liquor stash And walked down by the riverside Sleepwalking, cuz I'm sleepwalking

You're starting conversations You don't even know the topic

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

Somewhere between dust and the stars