Modest Mouse - The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box Lyrics






Open up the window,
All the air, oh the air is falling out.
Eyes vacuum up light;
Sound gets trapped by the mouth
We'll deal with the remainder when the dents,
The dents get hammered out.
Then we'll travel through time.

The world's an inventor with it's work
Crawlin, runnin, squirmin 'round.
Trees drop colorful fruits
Directly into our mouths.
The world's an inventor,
We're the dirtiest thing it's thought about...
And we really don't mind.

We'll probably never get there,
Bring your sightseer school teachers down.
It's a water color weekend,
All the trees are turning colors now.
We'll probably never get there,
Bring your candy taster, time wasters around
And we'll fuck with their minds.

The world composes with his
Shirt tails wrinkled hangin' out
Bang us together see what sort
Of sounds we make right now.
The world plays music
Playing skin on teeth inside of a mouth
What sort of sounds?
What lovely sounds come about?

We greased all the ropes, (The part of the ground)
We'll throw you a line. (that's above the ground.)
We're gonna break these boulders, (We're the part of the ground,)
We're gonna pull things out. (that when things come together,)

We greased all the ropes, (come bubbling outwards)
We'll throw you a line. (and then sink back.)
We're gonna break these boulders, (Come bubbling outwards)
We're gonna travel time. (when things come together.)

We're gonna throw a party.
All the ghosts of trees are coming out,
Don't look any direction,
Wait until the light's inside of the clouds.
You're gonna wanna see this;
Don't bring your camera around.
Watch sun and sawdust align.

We greased all the ropes, (Come bubbling outwards)
We'll throw you a line. (then sinking back.)
We're gonna break these boulders, (The part of the ground,)
We're gonna pull things out. (that when things come together,)

We greased all the ropes, (come bubbling outwards,)
We'll throw you a line. (gets above the ground,)
We're gonna break these boulders, (come bubbling outwards,)
We're gonna travel time. (and then sink back.)

Close up the window!
All the air - all the air is falling out.
Eyes vacuum up light
Sound gets trapped by the mouth.
Our predecessor left this box
And something's clawing around,
I think it really wants out.





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  1. B.... B....

    W-why.... where did I hear this? I’ve heard a slightly different version of this I feel.... like.... maybe it was a Minecraft thing....

  2. 3.... D....

    It's 2020 damn I love this song

  3. s.... ....

    i wish John Frusciante would have joined Modest Mouse instead of RHCP again!

  4. D.... W....

    Much better than the music video version!

  5. C.... ....

    Just when I thought I'd heard all their songs, this randomly shows up after listening to ice cream party.. MM is Amazing !

  6. �.... �....

    How great it is, that i discovered this band two years ago! 🙏🙏🙏

  7. N.... R....

    400 people don't like bad news

  8. N.... R....

    Saw you guys for my birthday, what a wonderful birthday gift. I want to see you every year till I die.

  9. *.... ....

    i know Isaac and the Lord dont have that good of a relationship, if at all, but this is sounding more and more like a reflection of whats actually going on in the world today. The line goes something like, "The worlds inventor, watches their creation squirm about" and him talking about tree"s being made to drop fruit in our mouths, and i think he might be saying reality is for sure not perfect but we really dont mind cuz we do things like travel through time! God is cool, i hope im right cuz that would be cool! THE REAL GOD(not the white guy-dictator, sitting in the clouds that decides to take ur nanna home cuz its her "time",thats made up b.s.& hmu if u want some dope info on the realness) IS AWESOME! MAC MILER FOUND THE LIGHT! Listen to his last album "Swimming". i pray Isaac finds the REAL light cuz i love these guys. Friekin Issaquah Raised!! Not Seattle, Wa but ISSAQUAH,Wa!! dont get it twisted.

  10. I.... t....

    This whole album is nostalgic, and reminds me of the times I would sit on my dad's lap and watch Modest Mouse music videos, or go on road trips with him. That's strange. This came out in 2015. I haven't done that since 2012. I even have a false memory of listening to this song and Sugar Boats with him...

  11. A.... C....

    This song though

  12. W.... ....

    That bass line is groovy

  13. B.... D....

    Anyone else feel an Oingo Boingo feel?

  14. M.... L....

    i always think steampunk for some reason

  15. P.... C....

    With this cover, they should had named the album as "Panopticon", or "Self-Panoptized".

  16. M.... I....

    That guitar at the end tho

  17. A.... S....

    No, I'd never give this world me and my muses by Aphrodite or Lou either. Just look at the book market. no one. cares about the Odyssey as well as any play by any memory or by any papyrus at hand on stage either anymore either.

  18. A.... S....

    PANTS ON FIRE DROWN IN METH INSTEAD BY MY PURCHASE THAT SAVED AND SPOKE FOR YOUR BAND THANKS KEYS BECAUES YOU SUCK TOO

  19. A.... S....

    Yeah. Thanks for saying I'm too crazy and you hate me instead. Now. Have demonic nightmares as a band. Because that's what it's like watching your audience and band hearing you say hello as an artist and being a human being as well just so you can laugh together.

  20. A.... S....

    But actually, don't meet me as Rama in this life, holding Shepard's watches by Christopher Columbus, and hearing Indians are here, no wait it's another weird English Translation in World Cultures. You don't know your Ishta Devata.

  21. A.... S....

    Never be born historically famous. Meet me as a Hindu or something else instead. Seriously.

  22. A.... S....

    Okay. Sorry about the tour, It needed to happen though, that's me saving them on meth on stage too drunk and screaming at me... and I was like.... Still my favorite band forever then cannot happen though. Not for sharpies. OUT AND NEAR BY THAT. it was like, oh here's Modest Mouse, they were all underground and yes, we like it, but no not live because look at that slob and it's terrible, so save them with the beer garden, so they're like hello, like genius ignorant assholes as well, and on my death bed. Far too much for a human being. Seriously. Do not italic me, Sean. Elementary School. your Brother. Harvard Cop Movie FB FU MAN CHU Wall St Founding of America. Just, now, show them, oh a quaker needs someone to translate for them? like wha? they canonot talk right. Actually, sometimes courtiers get so hurt they can only talk well with cards and pictures, historical fact, I've been tortured in numerous ways, so don't edit this with weird invisible mouse right now. I SWEAR TO GOD THERE'S A FENCE IN THE SOUTH WE KNOW FOR A FORT TO BE THERE was difficult enough. My blood is boiling. Too many contacts.

  23. A.... S....

    Did you build homes and ships from the wood in the 1600s before the indepence then stand in line after and join and not join with England and/or France? And don't start with my gypsy blood either. Romans with Greecian war swords in my Saber/Epee/Foil by that. And it's like oh that awe of the press, by all that I know in the truth of my practice of sword where the gun is lighter. FUCKING NOPE. ANGER YES RIGHT NOW. And Jack said he wanted to compete with "B" name anyways.... and my next most famous relative in a cage as a jester singing a song by Dilly Dilly again? Hey, it's Bourton on the Water and anyone can look at a map and know it. Where we are immortal, eclipse happens, undoubtably, where it matters. NO. You lose, Jack. He did and did not start it, anyways Crazies.

  24. A.... S....

    Does your family stand where England is unnamed England with tearing down THE EARTh OR NOT and knowing those families in how they are standing beside those orders which are brought forth in the blood of families, than may also stand as being born in other nations as well, or standing together in layers of war for being a town that is a family name by saving the King's Life sent over here for the country founded in all of that history? NO> So, see you in France, we were sent through there by way of Italy for noble people probably Milliniea ago as well. Yes, you definetly cannot translate in court or by history or where my family is concerned and anyone standing as a spokesperson for either nation is not ignorant in saying you're offensive for taking such a stance. Carry the weight of the sword again, why don't you? Or try and compete with hair appointments like real French people talking to hats with Ruffians I mean Russians an old "s" "f" press Benjamin Franklin knew about? You deserve none of that reputation.

  25. A.... S....

    Did your family that's maybe not their family who was called generations before that be compensated by this land and live honorably as teachers, lawyers, doctors, never getting involved wrongly, living righteously, carry these gifts of Their Majesty's by a promise that is not ours build this country from father to son, wife to daughter? I DON"T THINK SO> FUCK OFF FOREVER LITERALLY. And come back by old ship boards that built tables or say nothing at all would be so much better by both nations where your speech is at.

  26. A.... S....

    Yeah. That is maybe 12 to 14 generations of my family over here that you just waltz up to forever. Family talk back in the day no over here maybe it's about something else or not kind of shit I'm screaming about. WALKING IN THE PRESS WITH IT TOO LIKE YOUR HAIR???? And here are the witch trials and there's your son looking and speaking by freckles and moles? GO AWAY.

  27. A.... S....

    Is Sharon Osbourne the eldest daughter of the eldest of the eldest where there were only girls after the name was given to them by The King of England by letter after he proposed or did not propose to her or to me by a promise or not a promise? No. Okay, so they don't speak for me in the press or talk of decency where they don't understand what was happening between any Royal Family and Mine EVER> FOOOOOORRRR REAAAAAL FROOOOM ALLLL OFFF USSS>

  28. A.... S....

    Meet me at the Wine Seller by a hospital named for a family competing with it. YEAH DON"T NEED A PARTY NOW. Toasts are more than good here. Thanks. Bye. And I speak strongly against anyone saying they need help with translation by English Court speech. Hope you drown in the Ritz by a little girl's shoe shine for it all. Like you speak for the Baron and his wife for someone who doesn't know what they're talking about right can say it all for everyone here. FUCK OFF. (Do not speak of my candle snuffing shaped moles, and moles Marilyn drew on me when she became famous or by the Beatles knight speech by me or in the press or on reality TV how fucking weird that is! By my heart stake shaped moles and some hot models you are just stupid freaks. no one needs your advice or your "torment" of have a hair appointment every day. Your personal love talk in the speech as a platform can go and fuck itself forever. Not a fan, okay. Kensington hates you as well for this. Admirnals and Penn's and fucking Commodores and black people and old press and Greece and Ivy Leagues schools and your sly with a hair appointment everyone knows about before I'm born and you talk for them and us maybe you're magenta or teal colored? Who fucking knows with that amount of bullshit ego? GET OUT OF OUR WINE CELLARS< THANK YOU.)

  29. A.... S....

    Osbourne. Meet Borton, take the U, give the U back, Bourton. Oh Bourton on the Water. BEAT ME AT ENGLISH SPEECH WHY DON"T YOU TRY AND HELP BY SEEDS AND LEAF EATING LIKE I NEED A TRANSLATION IN COURT SPEECH EVER?!?!?!

  30. A.... S....

    broke your arm, stupid.

  31. A.... S....

    You will all stay in your shin pains for your speeches to me. I don't care if it's yours. How I feel. Who I am. Even if I'm crying crazy Im 1% Italian only French Germain less than 50% British a little bit Irish maybe fucking 1/10 Scandanvian now.

  32. A.... S....

    Weird trail I leave behind. It's like, oh here's your show, no it's sharps, there's a whole sharpie culture, here's more than a dozen different cultures and celebrities talk to you by and through the press, No don't excuse the past by history of World War II either. I"M GONNA FUCKING DO IT RIGHT ABOUT NOW NO MORE TRIANGLE BREAK EVERY DRUM FUCK UP YOUR STRINGS SPEAK MUSCIAN BUSINESS WAY BETTER MORE EVIL NOW

  33. A.... S....

    My back is pretty. Dick is not an aria song. and it's every song almost at the Opera house. Grab the audience. NO DON't> I HATE YOU.

  34. A.... S....

    I just wanted to say, it's your fan who made your purchase of all your albums, not come to your concert, hold up the beer garden to save you, not so nice saying goodbye when I'm fucking dying from bleeding internally/externally for years, wish it was over already, but no... I have to be historically famous Quaker weird regions with a sword press cross battlefield cross gull talk to sticks no also other sticks in the woods man is a bush type girl. translate that. Is the Aviator/Pilot army.national guard.airforce training looking all straight by weird English knight inherited battlefield I have a saber practice by our civil war also cross check the lawyers and the judges and like 15 different president's hands and I get no help. Just. HeY!. MY DICK IS AN ARIA SONG.

  35. J.... H....

    I've become such a huge MM fan in the past year, God I love this band, they're up there with my favorites like Incubus, Pearl Jam, and RHCP now. They're just so damn good, Isaac is a real good lyricist.

  36. s.... Q....

    Ohhhh Hello....nice song.....

  37. J.... D....

    I can't help but notice the "Mouse Utopia" motif of the album art. Hardly a coincidence, eh?

  38. L.... ....

    Killer song. Love indie rock.

  39. C.... W....

    If this song doesn't make you jump up and shake your ass then nothing will.

    C.... W....

    Couch Warrior immediately I started doing that and I swear it helps relieve stress

    C.... W....

    Seriously

  40. e.... k....

    I tripped balls and listened to this it was fucking amazing

  41. K.... A....

    I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks its sounds like Kermit? 😂

  42. B.... G....

    never really on YouTube or even into alternative music but gottdamm when I heard this on XM😎

  43. t.... t....

    lingo fantastic

  44. G.... G....

    This song being 6 minutes makes it extra great. Everything in this song is just fantastic.

  45. B.... B....

    Me likey!

  46. F.... M....

    The outro instrumental FOREVER

  47. s.... ....

    not hating or anything but i feel extremly uncomfortable hearing this

    s.... ....

    Learn why, maybe

  48. F.... ....

    This song has more layers than Shrek.

  49. G.... ....

    i can die happy after listening to mm they put me in a weirdly good mood

  50. D.... ....

    What's this song about? Definitely like the groovy bass and drums!

  51. b.... ....

    Play at 0.75x for old school depression vibes

  52. T.... ....

    why am i just finding this now

    T.... ....

    I found this a few months ago and I wish I had found it sooner

    T.... ....

    I like a few mm songs but barely heard this one yesterday while shopping at spencers..

  53. _.... a....

    Damn this song gives me huge No one's first and you're next vibes!

  54. m.... ....

    Lyrics:

    Open up a window
    All the air, all the air is falling out
    Eyes vacuum up light
    Sound gets trapped by the mouth
    What to do with the remainder
    When the dents, the dents get hammered out
    Then we'll travel through time

    The world's an inventor
    With its work crawling, running, squirming 'round
    Trees drop colorful fruits
    Directly into our mouths
    The world's an inventor
    We're the dirtiest thing it's thought about
    And we really don't mind

    We'll probably never get there
    Bring your sightseers, schoolteachers down
    It's a watercolor weekend
    All the trees are turning colors now
    We'll probably never get there
    Bring your candy taster time wasters around
    And we'll fuck with their minds

    The world composes
    With his shirttails wrinkled, hanging out
    Bang us together
    See what sort of sounds we make right now
    The world plays music
    Playing skin on teeth inside of the mouth
    What sort of sounds?
    What lovely sounds come about?

    We greased all the roads
    We're floating in the light
    We're gonna break these borders
    We're gonna move in time
    We greased all the roads
    We're floating in the light
    We're gonna break these borders
    We're gonna travel time
    We're gonna throw a party

    All the ghosts of trees are coming out
    Don't move in any direction
    Wait until the light's inside of the cloud
    You're gonna wanna see this
    Don't bring your camera around
    Watch sun and sawdust align

    We greased all the roads
    We're floating in the light
    We're gonna break these borders
    We're gonna pulse in time
    We greased all the roads
    We're floating in the light
    We're gonna break these borders
    We're gonna travel time

    Hold up a window
    All the air, all the air is falling out
    Eyes vacuum up light
    Sound gets trapped by the mouth
    Our predecessor left this box
    And something's clawing around
    I think it really wants out

  55. m.... ....

    goddamn i can’t fathom the amount of material they have that’s just waiting to be released...

  56. G.... h....

    Mandatory "are you watching in 20** " comment to fuel my alter ego



    Anyone in 2019? Hey at least i was honest about it

  57. U.... T....

    Anytime someone asks me what my favorite Modest Mouse song is, I swear my brain explodes.

  58. T.... ....

    whats the picture of? an aerial of an rv park?

  59. S.... B....

    Best Modest Mouse song

    S.... B....

    how dare you.

  60. N.... ....

    Don't even have to ask "2019?" Because this shit is timeless

  61. A.... b....

    what does this song mean to you guys?

  62. B.... P....

    Makes you wish your ex, and her best friend. I'm talking baby gravy.

  63. G.... ....

    2:40-3:00 nhghhhh those damn background vocals kill me i love it. This song is 100x even better with headphones

  64. T.... D....

    I can't fucking believe I missed the chance to see these guys in Santa Barbara when they played there. I'm kicking myself to this day for missing that show.

  65. M.... A....

    Jammin mann!!
    Let’s go!

  66. G.... ....

    i can't believe it's been 3 years already. :(

  67. N.... ....

    This song is so underrated

  68. A.... C....

    todo el mundos a quitarse la ropaa, todo el mundos, animense, a quitarse la ropaaas

  69. I.... W....

    OMG I LOVE YOU MODEST MOUSE XD

  70. A.... ....

    Song of the Day
    07-23-18: The Ground Walks, with Time in a Box | Modest Mouse​
    also on: www.onecuriousworld.com

  71. R.... R....

    So disappointed they didn't play this at the Walmart Amp in Arkansas the other night...

  72. T.... ....

    This track has the most vintage sound of anything since Good News for... Etc

  73. w.... ....

    **sweats profusely**

  74. H.... ....

    Listen to this while drunk, I recommend it

  75. E.... V....

    Amazing

  76. H.... ....

    This was amazing live. Isaac totally killed it in riverside!!

  77. C.... M....

    This song is so good.

  78. J.... H....

    Just decided: on my death bed, there will be constant Modest Mouse

  79. J.... B....

    can't stop dancing around my living room

  80. B.... S....

    Almost 3 years don't really feel like it

  81. D.... ....

    i love it but it's kinda autotuned

  82. K.... ....

    this song makes me want to buy a Christmas tree for my robotic cousin

  83. K.... p....

    still love this stuff

  84. B.... M....

    Think about what would happen if Good News For People Who Love Bad News had a child with The Moon and Antarctica.

  85. O.... T....

    Dude why is it so underrated what the fuck?

  86. J.... D....

    I have never came across a song as neat as this.

  87. r.... w....

    I posted about a year agothat I was listing to this ! And a year later ! I still am listing to this song

  88. j.... ....

    FISH i love modest mouse like crazy!!!!

    j.... ....

    joanie
    Checked out your music and I must say... good taste

  89. A.... ....

    2x speed is too fast. But 1.5x... that will do.

  90. A.... ....

    it sounds so much like the new rhcp

  91. J.... G....

    Mouse fans tend to be rather few and far between, but they are the most awesome people alive. I recently lost my best friend, and the only person who appreciated them on my level to a dope overdose. RIP Bill..

    J.... G....

    sorry to hear about your buddy but it sounds like he had great taste in music!

  92. C.... C....

    this is like music that intergalactic beings would dance to at a disco in space

  93. C.... Y....

    My brother played this after we watched the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie and I can't stop associating it with a pirate-y atmosphere

  94. I.... K....

    What's a really good indie rock band?

  95. I.... P....

    Okay, I can't be the only one that sometimes kinda hears Ernie from Sesame Street on this song hahaha I even picture him dancing while singing in a music video for this...

  96. T.... C....

    In the tops of songs to instantly make you feel stoic.

  97. A.... ....

    Isaac you need guitar and voice lessons!! The voice would never turn their chairs around for you