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I don't think most Modest Mouse fans know about these works, but they're great. Sad Sappy Sucker features a lot of older songs, some only with Brock singing or playing an instrument, that predate THis is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About. Its probably not for the average Modest Mouse fan either, you have to really love Brock's words and have some sense of who he is as a human being to really understand and love Sad Sappy Sucker.

The Fruit That Ate Itself came out before THe Lonesome Crowded West and also features some of my favorite songs by Modest Mouse. If nothing else, this EP showcases Brock's ability to write from the heart and not sacrifice harmonious delivery.

Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker

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Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself

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So you think for a while and realize that you'll still die. If you're not thinking at all, im not sure why you're alive.

Three things:

"Its hard to remember that our lives are such a short time.
Its hard to remember when it lasts such a long time."- Isaac Brock

And

"I don't think that life is short. So I think you should stop saying that. 'Life is short, man.' No it's not! Life is excrusiatingly long. Let me rephrase that. The life you got left is excrusiatingly long. The life behind you, it's done. So yeah, life is short, but only when you turn around and look at it. But if you keep looking forward, you got a lot of years to think about. If you don't think life is long, if you live every day like life is short, you know what you become? A fuckin' asshole. You gotta live your life like someday soon you're gonna hit some miserable Tuesday night that's just gonna seem to go on for days and days and days. Waiting for either some phone call to come that doesn't come or some phone call to stop that won't stop. Because as it's laid out in front of you seems to go on forever. But look back to when you were 4 and it seems like last Sunday. So just keep looking forward and keep your good heart on you and keep doing the best you can do and love who you love the best you can love." -John Mayer

"After all is said and done, we barely have memories. So I write what I feel, sue me if its empty." - Sole



The overarching concept here is just that your life is short, but it can feel long as hell. So do what you want to do with it, but don't feel rushed. You'll live regardless and if you die, you're dead. At least die moving in a direction you want to. And by direction, I simply mean do what you feel you need to as a person, but isn't asking too much of yourself. Its often easy to judge yourself and feel as if you owe something in you or someone else the perfection we think is so possible because its parading across our television screen, but...well...I'll just close with one more quote from Isaack Brock.

"Do you need a lot of what you got to survive?"

Modest Mouse - One Chance

Haven't heard a song to tell how bittersweet life is that I feel describes it more concisely than this song. Read the lyrics

We have one chance
One chance to get everything right
We have one chance
One chance
And if we're lucky we might

My friends, my habits, my family
They mean so much to me
I just don't think that it's right
I've seen so many ships sail in
Just to head back out again and go off sinking

I'm just a box in a cage
I'm just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box of mistakes

Didn't mean to laugh
Didn't know I had
Didn't know the better part of what you said
Because in your head you are not home
Didn't get the joke
Didn't mean to poke another
Just to save myself from some something
Something or another one
Well, walk home

I'm just a box in a cage
I'm just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage
I'm just a box in a cage

We have one chance
One chance to get everything right
My friends, my habits, my family
They mean so much to me
I just don't think that it's right
I've seen so many ships sail in
Just to head back out again and go off sinking