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Dramamine by Modest Mouse

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Modest Mouse

Dramamine

Release date: 15th April 1996

From This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
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5:42
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Travelling, swallowing Dramamine captures the numb drift of a long drive, the kind where the landscape blurs and thought itself becomes impossible. Isaac Brock's voice moves between conversational and raw, anger breaking through the surface of what sounds like a relationship collapsing in real time. The guitar work is dreamy and echoing, a counterweight to his sharp emotional delivery, and the song settles into a rhythm that feels both slow and inevitable. The lyrics circle around disconnection and the failure of communication. "We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves" sets the tone: intimacy that cannot quite bridge the gap between two people. Brock sings of saying what he's said, of not being able to focus on anything, of someone milking a situation for all it's worth. The song moves like the journey its title invokes, a mindless state where motion and distance become the only constants.

"Dramamine" is a track by Modest Mouse, from the album This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, released 15th April 1996. The track is 5:42 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Modest Mouse.

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Lyrics

Dramamine

Travelling, swallowing Dramamine
Feeling spaced, breathing out Listerine
I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell ya
And that you'd killed the better part of me
If you could just milk it for everything
I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean
But I still can't focus on anything
We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves

Travelling, swallowing Dramamine
Look at your face like you're killed in a dream
And you think you've figured out everything
I think I know my geography pretty damn well
You say what you need so you'll get more
If you could just milk it for everything
I've said what I said and you know what I mean
But I can't still focus on anything

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From This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About

5:421996
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This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
Modest Mouse
16th April 1996
Track number
1
Release year
1996
  1. 1Dramamine
    5:42
  2. 2Breakthrough
    4:07
  3. 3Custom Concern
    4:28
  4. 4Might
    1:31

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    Production & Engineering

    Writer
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    Producer
    Seasick Steve
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    Eric Judy
    Drums
    Jeremiah Green
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