Blame Yourself

By Modest Mouse

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With your teeth, your lips, you hit the ground

You hear the fish make this sound

"We just want to go walk around

And feel what it's like to fall down"

With your teeth, your lips, you hit the ground

You hear the fish make this sound

"We just want to go walk around

And feel what it's like to fall down"

With your teeth, your lips, you hit the ground

You hear the fish make this sound

"We just want to go walk around"

Do you blame yourself?

Do you blame yourself?

Do you blame yourself?

Hey you, do you blame yourself?

Do you blame yourself?!

Do you blame yourself?!

Well, hey you! Yeah you! Will you blame yourself?!

Well you! Yeah, will you blame yourself?!

Hey you, do you blame yourself?

Oh yeah, do you blame yourself?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you blame yourself!

Do you blame someone else?

Do you blame someone else?

Mother, father, preacher, God

Do you blame yourself?

Blame yourself!

Mothers got a daughter, son's a preacher, son drinks water

Take yourself down to the roller skating rink

Say what you know is what you had

And what you had was something better

So now you blame yourself!

Do you blame yourself!?

You knew there was something wrong

There was something right

There was something better than that

Someday you didn't know something you wanted to forget

Blame yourself for that

(..)

Do you blame yourself?

Do you blame yourself?

Did you fuck yourself up?

Oh shit, I would cut myself

Well, can you blame yourself?!

With your teeth, your lips, you hit the ground

You hear the fish make this sound

"We just want to go walk around

And feel what it's like to fall down"

You got a knife?

You got a knife?

You got a knife?!

You got a knife!

You got a knife!

(Aww, shit)

(..)

With the choice of lying from the first day

Things you had that you would have said

That you said before you even got through the door

You didn't know they made up some more

So much more you had to say

"I got nothing left today

But no thoughts, I got nothing to believe

I can't believe what you're saying

And you can think what I'm thinking, what I would

And kudos to you, I do not know what I have in my head

And I cannot, will not do

And I cannot belong to you

You cannot belong to me, too

I cannot blame you for you

And you cannot blame me for the shit I do"

(..)

Well habit, habit, habit's dead

The dad tried to kill himself

Other dad tried to kill himself

And they never made it out on time

And they never made it out with their mental health

But then one day you walk through the door

Just outside you know some more

I don't love you, you don't love you

And you know what you got left

What the fuck you got left?

I don't love you, I don't love you

You can't say what's left

Love yourself and love your friends

Well, love your family near the end

Don't know what is going on

Well, things cannot end up this way

Things cannot end up this way!

You're walking to the TV, listening to the shows

Reading the paper and no one knows

What the fuck is going on, how much how, how much how?

How much longer have we got to go on?

Old age as time grew, you did too and you didn't say what you wanted to

Okay! (Static shit)

Patriotic bullshit, George Bush, the government

The other side, genocide, what the fuck?

You can't deny that things are going up

And are not going to be so nice

Take a breath or take twenty (..)

You get no more and you can see what you can see