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The ninth track on Modest Mouse’s sixth full-length album, Strangers To Ourselves. After “Lampshades on Fire,” this was the second song from Strangers to be played live, debuting in April 2012 at Stanford University, then titled “Heart of Mine.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-Fgtr09n4
The albu...
This rock of ours is just some big mistake
And we will never know just where we go
Or where we have came from
These veins of mine are now some sort of fuse
And when they light up and my mind blows up
My heart is amused so
This heart of mine is just some sort of map
That doesn't care at all or worry about where the hell you're at
But you're right there
Well, I've been meaning to dismiss you
Yeah I have some plans to dismiss you
So stand by, by, by, by, bye-bye
Wave goodbye, sugar boats!
As soon as you paint every last grain of sand
As you soon as you paint every star
In the sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky
Wave goodbye, sugar boats!
Well, I’m swatting at mosquitoes as they’re orbiting me
I'm orbiting the sun and this goes on and on and on, you see
This heart of mine is just some broke machine
And when it gets a-goin', and it often gets a-goin'
It starts blowin' steam
Here we go again!
This rock of ours is just some big mistake
And we will never know just where we go
Or where we have came from
This watch of mine is like some sort of void
Cause when I look in, and I shouldn't look in
I, I see it swallow my time
Oh no, there it goes!
Well, I ain’t getting on no fast plane
Hell, I ain’t getting on no stuffy train
Sugar boats on the Atlantic are fine
The sugar boats, they're just fine
I'll stand on the deck so you could see
I'll stand on the deck you could wave bye, bye, bye, bye
Here's the ghost that goes and waves bye, bye, bye, bye
I'm the ghost that goes and waves bye, bye, bye
Sugar Boats was written by Isaac Brock.
Sugar Boats was produced by Clay Jones & Andrew Weiss & Brian Deck & Tucker Martine & Isaac Brock.
Modest Mouse released Sugar Boats on Tue Mar 17 2015.
In a 2015 Track by Track Commentary of the album, via Spotify, Isaac Brock gives some insight and backstory about the song:
I was reading a book. I just finished reading a book called Wicked River. It’s about probably 170 year history of the Mississippi River. It’s just mind-blowing how crazy the s...