Speak ’N Spell (Or Not)

By Modest Mouse

On An Eraser and a Maze

Released on June 5, 2026

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[Verse 1]

Skipped the line to jump ahead

But we're all getting on the very same jet

When we leave the tarmac, and we get where we get

Our baggage comes out random

It's not an insult, it's just the truth

But the rest of us have to live outside of you

I don't have to get you, but you sure as hell do

It's not the part that can come after


[Verse 2]

Life's just fucking awesome and I know that it is

I know of this because I'm living it

Wеstern movies always end thе way they begin

Where somebody gets ended

I can speak, but I cannot spell well

I know myself, but not very well, so

I make a note to read to fall asleep

I choose the news, and then I can't sleep after


[Chorus]

I guess this is as far as we go

I guess this is as far as we go


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 3]

I wish we'd read a few chapters ahead

We probably could've avoided this

But that's not the way it shook out, and we get what we get

A trifling disaster

Skipped the line to jump ahead

But we're all getting on the same aeroplane

When we leave the sky and come back again

Our baggage doesn't land there


[Chorus]

I guess this is as far as we go

Yes, this is as far as we go

Yes, this is as far as we go

Yes, this is as far as we go