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03 February 2008 @ 07:13 pm
 
Does anyone else find Modest Mouse's "Blame it on the Tetons" a surprisingly intelligent song? It's just grabbed me pretty strongly in the past weeks, though I've liked it from the first time I heard it. I guess that's why I've been including it in mixes for people lately...

Blame it on the Tetons
Yeah, I need a scapegoat now
No, my dog won't bite you
Though it had the right to
You ought to give her credit
Because she knows I would've let it happen

Blame it on the weekends
God, I need a cola now
Oh, we mumble loudly
Wear our shame so proudly
Wore our blank expressions
Trying to look interesting
Blame it all on me because
God, I need a cold one now

All them eager actors
Gladly taking credit for the lines created
By the people tucked away from sight
Is just a window from the room we're bound to
If you find a way out
Oh, would you just let me know how?
Would you just let me know how?

Blame it on the web
But the spider's your problem now
Language is the liquid
That we're all dissolved in
Great for solving problems
After it creates a problem
Blame it on the Tetons
God, I need a scapegoat now

Everyone's a building burning
With no one to put the fire out
Standing at the window looking out
Waiting for time to burn us down
Everyone's an ocean drowning
With no one really to show how
They might get a little better air
If they turned themselves into a cloud

Furthermore, if you are looking to get into the pants of some hotty, I would encourage you never to employ the following term of endearment: "my tomato plant growing on the rich soil of an abandoned homestead." It really isn't all that flattering.
 
 
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saira[info]changeandchance on February 4th, 2008 04:31 am (UTC)
in the line of non-compliments, my brother's friend actually did give me this one (and he really was aiming for a compliment, it just missed): "you are the seed in my genetically engineered seedless grape."

i have to admit, it was the most creative way i was ever maligned.
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