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“Dead End Job At The Dead Letter Office” is an early Modest Mouse demo remastered for “Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol. II”.
The title is a reference to Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall Street”. The narrator is a lawyer and he talks about the eccentricities of clerks he h...
[Verse 1]
Dead end job at the dead letter office
I seem so sad but I am so sick, so sick
Dead end life with a bad plan, bland script
I hope you know that I am doing the best I can
[Chorus]
Oh, I know I've made decisions
I am wrong
Oh, I know I've made the wrong decision
I am wrong
[Post-Chorus]
So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now
Well I put on my shoes and socks
Goddamn, if I'd walked here tick for tock
So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now
[Verse 2]
Dead end job at the dead letter office
I seem so sad but I am so sick, so sick
Dead end life with a bad plan, bland script
I hope you know that I am doing the best I can
[Chorus]
Oh, I know I've made decisions
I am wrong
Oh, I know I've made the wrong decision
I am wrong
[Post-Chorus]
So you wonder, wonder how
How I get here, got here now
Well I put on my shoes and socks
Goddamn, if I'd walked here tick for tock
[Chorus]
Oh, I know I've made the wrong decision
I am wrong
Oh, I know I've made the wrong decision
I am wrong
Dead End Job at the Dead Letter Office was written by Jeremiah Green & Eric Judy & Isaac Brock.
Modest Mouse released Dead End Job at the Dead Letter Office on Sat Sep 24 2011.