White Lies, Yellow Teeth

By Modest Mouse

On White Lies, Yellow Teeth

Released on September 3, 2014

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You went out for a walk

I'm sure you went a long ways

Sorting things out in our heads

We'll forget in a few days

In the place before you're made

They give you all these options

Like if you've got wings

Or have you got feelings

Or can you breathe underwater?

He chose lifting ten times his weight

And natural body armor

And then on the day his mother gave

He came out as an insect

People talk in soda pop

They talk it quite a lot

The opinions that I don't give

Are the opinions I don't got


[Chorus x10]

White lies fall off my yellow teeth

I didn’t convince you but I did me

It's all so plain it's all a plan

It’s all so plain to most everyone

The sky does not ever end

The air just gets much thinner

I knew a man who went on and on

About how he knew a man who knew a man

Who knew a man who knew him once

You can keep digging down and down

Without even turning ‘round

Or finding hell you'll find you're digging up again

Some hippie told me, "Free your pets"

So I let them all go free

It didn't take no time at all

For they came running back to me


[Chorus x3]