Modest Mouse - Guilty Cocker Spaniels

Didn't find it anwhere on youtube, so i upped it. Sorry for no vid, music is more important ;-)

lyrics ( http://www.interstate-8.com/songs.asp?song_id=289 ):

well i took off running at the greatest speed
i didn't bother looking to either side of me
well i didn't see, i just didn't see
what was really going on

the truth is stopped and the skyline rose
exchanging comfort for more fashionable clothes
i'd left the hills at this point in time
to run on treadmills in a perfect line

salad days add up to daily shit
sparkling imagination until the sparks just quit
and if this is fun, why am i so bored with it
well i will probably never know

guilty cocker spaniels eating table scraps
well we rolled over, how our master clapped
it felt so good, we wanted more of that
but when the program failed they defensively laughed
said we did things just how you asked
don't try taking us to task
you didn't bite face
nope, just a mask
so happy halloween

i drew a blank, we put it in a frame
wait, what, you're winning
you didn't say this was a game
well i guess i'll just have to play and play
until i'm out of cash

before i could spit it out
i guess the words had burnt my mouth
what can i say

best of all, i laid it down
so you could take it out of context
either way

we said all along we deserve every bit
and mostly we knew that the surprise would quit
but we got going and going just away with it
until everybody lost their mind

directly behind me and ahead of the time
but don't you worry, it'll fall right in line
yes everything's just fine, fine, fine
no one's getting blamed this time

blame me so blameless
can we find a way to blame our way out

well i postdated the eulogy
for every blameless body now, now

we are blamelessly teething on much more than we need
now, now now

blamelessly teething

we're likely to blame, 'cause everyone, everyone knew

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Modest
• Mouse
• Guilty
• Cocker
• Spaniels

[seektheunseenmusic]

as a musician, i think 95% of bands people think have "sold out" really haven't.  Things that have influenced them start shaping their musicality differently over time. Hardly does any musician say, "Hey lets change our style so more people like us"

[IWatchedTheWorldBurn]

Exactly, one of the reasons I love Modest Mouse so much is the fact I can go around my school singing the lyrics to a great Modest song. (like this one) and MAYBE one person will hear and recognize the song, and if they do that makes them to coolest person at school lol. Opposed to every other overplayed song that I -used to- like.

[CanadianKlingon]

@IWatchedTheWorldBurn

The hipster level, it's over 9000!

[Demonboi9]

Fuck the NDAA, SOPA, and all that. Can't we all just sit home and listen to Modest Mouse?

[drewkinney37]

Great song

[macsreviews]

Okay if you have this song on your iPod, listen to the last 5 seconds and turn your volume really loud. I hear Isaac talking to probably Jeremy, way back from the Issaquah days. I can't really understand what they are saying but I'm pretty sure Isaac asks if something is good, and someone (Jeremy) replies something like: "this one's still good." it's really really quiet.

[frizzybob]

@seektheunseenmusic well, i listened to modest mouse back in 2001 when a friend introduced me to them, and then 9-10 years later, i heard them on the radio. 

[UnorthodoxAdolescent]

I Liked this Modest Mouse before, I even listened to it my instincts tell me that all Modest Mouse is good.

[jakeosmitho]

2 DISLIKES SHOULD NOT BE THERE!!! HOW CAN ANYONE "DISLIKE" THIS!!!

[TheTempertrap21]

every song ive listened 2 them i had 2 get used 2 but when i did i loved modest mouse more and more so thx ur music made me who i am

[thtsritesun1212]

@andimhisfriendjesus haha LISTEN TO ME IF YOUR A FAGGOT haha. Good stuff

[EveryTimeV2]

Isaac tells it how it is and you'll interpret how you want, if you aren't happy with your interpretation then it's you at fault, not Isaac; if you were to describe this band as "emo" then you'd be correct, because they definitely but a lot of passion into their music.