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

Open up the window,
All the air, oh the air is falling out.
Eyes vacuum up light;
Sound gets trapped by the mouth

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 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.