[ti:Missed The Boat]
[ar:Modest Mouse]
[al:We Were Dead Before the Ship E]
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[00:00.00]Missed the Boat - Modest Mouse
[00:42.63]While we're on the subject
[00:44.01]Could we change the subject now 
[00:46.37]I was knocking on your ears
[00:47.94]Don't worry  you were always out
[00:51.53]Looking towards the future
[00:53.85]We were begging for the past
[00:55.53]Well we knew we had the good things
[00:57.91]But those never seemed to last
[00:59.97]Oh please just last
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[01:09.97]Everyone's unhappy
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[01:12.26]Everyone's ashamed
[01:14.08]Well we all just got caught looking
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[01:16.70]At somebody else's page
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[01:19.08]Well nothing ever went
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[01:21.45]Quite exactly as we planned
[01:23.33]Our ideas held no water
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[01:25.58]But we used them like a damn
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[01:30.33]Oh  and we carried it all so well
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[01:35.64]As if we got a new position
[01:38.32]Oh  and I laugh all the way to hell
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[01:44.26]Saying yes  this is a fine promotion
[01:47.89]Oh  and I laugh all the way to hell
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[01:54.26]Of course everyone goes crazy
[01:57.83]Over such and such and such
[02:00.45]We made ourselves a pillar
[02:02.64]We just used it as a crutch
[02:04.70]We were suddenly uncertain
[02:06.95]At least I'm pretty sure I am
[02:09.51]Well we didn't need the water
[02:11.51]But we just built that go god damn
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[02:14.89]Oh  and I know this all myself
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[02:21.77]I stood in front for all the people
[02:24.70]Oh  and I know this all myself
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[02:30.70]We listen while life hangs on
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[02:35.08]And the sound of life's sweet bliss
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[03:00.89]Was it ever worth it 
[03:02.95]Was there all that much to gain 
[03:05.14]Well we knew we missed the boat
[03:07.46]And we'd already missed the plane
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[03:10.27]We didn't read the invite
[03:11.89]We just dance at our wake
[03:14.21]All our favorites were playing
[03:16.27]So we could shake  shake  shake  shake  shake
[03:19.64]Tiny curtains open
[03:21.08]And we heard the tiny clap of little hands
[03:23.26]A tiny man would tell a little joke
[03:26.08]And get a tiny laugh from all the folks
[03:28.58]Sitting drifting around in bubbles
[03:29.83]And thinking it was us that carried them
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[03:32.70]When we finally got it figured out
[03:34.96]That we had truly missed the boat
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[03:38.27]Oh  and we carried it all so well
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[03:44.33]As if we got a new position
[03:46.89]Oh  and we owned all the tools ourselves
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[03:53.70]But not the skills to make a shelf with
[03:56.39]Oh  what useless tools ourselves
[04:01.27]END