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'Exit Does Not Exist' by Modest Mouse is an alternative track from the album 'This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About' (1996). The lyrics move through a tense, hallucinatory register, with an exit that will not take, voices insinuating, and a feeling of being fed words that are then passed off as speech. Daylight is pinned to a specific time, and the narrator stands before a photograph they do not recall having taken. In breathless exchanges, the speaker insists they are not pretending, even as the scene feels unreal, captured rather than lived. A single line sums up the refusal at the heart of it, 'I don't'.
"Exit Does Not Exist" 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 4:58 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Modest Mouse.
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Does not exist Take an exit I hear voices insinuating Feeds me lyrics to this song that I am saying Sunlight, 7: 20 PM, early September Standing looking at a photograph that you do not remember being taken You look out of breath, and me like I am faking As a matter of fact I don't recall this photo being taken You don't even actually exist So I just started shaking Does not exist Take an exit
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