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Modest Mouse
The Fruit that Ate Itself
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Michael Average |
#1 by Michael at May 27, 1971 at 11:57 AM EST |
| all I can gather is "(something) and you got yourself a moment and you think your pretty tough but you aint got nothing and your...(something) gonna get animals(?)... (something) maybe youll go to hell and ya..." I dont think this song has any meaning but I | |
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Pink Rhythm Player |
#2 by Pink Mintaka at Aug 17, 1972 at 12:35 PM EST |
| nah i think its bout trying to project an image about being fake which much of america is but i see it as one person not a whole object walk across the country shaking many hands and you're buying the product, but you didn't get that cos you already got it and you do not understand thats like saying that your out there to everyone trying to be something your not but youve also lost all identity of yourself thats what i see the songs about | |
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Matteo Average |
#3 by Matteo at Apr 29, 1975 at 7:25 PM EST |
| I think at the very end he says "When you're ending your problems and ........" I can't get the rest. | |
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J Wanna Be |
#4 by J kennedy at Mar 12, 1984 at 1:58 PM EST |
| people not accepting blame... adam and eve both said the other "ate the fruit" I can just see god standing there, "Oh, so the fruit ate itself?!" | |
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Kevin Average |
#5 by Kevin Pringle at Oct 7, 1984 at 2:27 PM EST |
| maybe about a LSD trip? teaching the fruit how to eat itself.. acid dissolving into your body and then the muffin part... thats just weird damn good song | |
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group calling f Average |
#6 by group calling for change or end of the masta at Jan 1, 1987 at 4:34 PM EST |
| This is one of my favorite songs along with I came as a rat. Is anyone into Red Red meat or Ugly cassanova....Isaak is great i heard he has schitzophrenia...sorry if i spelled it wrong. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#7 by Ben at Sep 5, 1992 at 7:24 PM EST |
| ah this ones about being fake, or paranoid. and scared. maybe all at the same time, it's a very ironic contradicting vibe, but i think losing your mind to get all the wrong answers has something to do with it. that way you THINK things are going well.. | |
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Denver Wanna Be |
#8 by Denver #2 at Apr 6, 1996 at 12:53 PM EST |
| I also think this song is about self-destruction (fruit eating itself; mirror admiring itself), but no one is really making the effort to do anything about it. The last few lines are probably Isaac's frustration with this whole idea and not knowing what to do about it. | |
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Fabien Average |
#9 by Fabien Bergeron at Apr 14, 1996 at 11:47 PM EST |
| What the hell is he saying in the background? At the very end I think he says "You wake up in the morning and you bonked yourself but, it doesnt really matter all that much, you know?" | |
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Mika Average |
#10 by Mika Petersson at Mar 1, 2001 at 6:02 AM EST |
| I think this is a song about hypochondria and fucking the American Capitalist system and hypocritical oxymoronic trendy motherfuckers. Who knows...it could be all or none of the before-mentioned. I've given up trying to figure it out...it's just damn good music. I think the last line of the song nicely sums up my attitude concerning the lyrical content. | |
