Modest Mouse
Satellite Skin
[Verse 1]
If you break these moth wing feelings
Powdery dust on your fingers
Well, no, we're not praying, we're kneeling
Hard enough just to say you believe them
Well, how the heck'd you think you could beat them
At the same time that you're trying to be them
Hard enough just to say you don't need it
When they serve it up, well, you will still eat it
Well, satellite, and satellite skin

[Verse 2]
Just to knock just to say you don't visit
Well, everybody's willing to listen
Aw, satellite, satellite skin
You can say what you want, you're forgiven
Well, happy fuckin' congratulations
Where everyone, everyone wins
Just like being my own solar system
Doing good things but then totally eclipse them
Oh, what the use? Oh, what the hell?

[Instrumental Chorus]
(We all lost 'cause we haven't caused, haven't caused)

[Verse 3]
If you break these moth wing feelings
Butterfly knife's in the ceiling
Where everyone, everyone's waiting
Detachment gets praised and completed
(I have seen it all become satellite skin)
You can say what you want and not mean it
Well, no one really seems to be waiting
If you sweep up this mess I've created
(I have seen it all become satellite skin)
Nothing's left to show I existed
Except satellite, satellite skin
[Bridge]
Askin' for a question
Was it easier said than was actually done?
Do you even believe that?
Do you even believe that there's a race to be won?

[Instrumental Chorus]

[Outro]
If you break these moth wing feelings I have seen it all
Become satellite skin orbiting some eyes
A knack to not that's not their opinions
Get stacked in all those usual avoided spots
Just to tell you I could not have seen through to
The gist of those unhappy, happy accidents