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Sunspots by Modest Mouse

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Modest Mouse

Sunspots

Release date: 12th May 1997

From The Fruit That Ate Itself
Track 1
0:38
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"Sunspots" is a track by Modest Mouse, from the album The Fruit That Ate Itself, released 12th May 1997. The track is 0:38 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Modest Mouse.

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Modest Mouse

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Lyrics

Sunspots

It was on the rotating eyes
It was all on the same postcard
It was all on the same damn shirt
Said to sleep in the same Sear's camp house
It was all in the great state parks
It was all on the same Greyhound
It was all so many miles
Beneath the dirty brown dirt
Twenty miles down the islands
The biggest mall on Earth
It was all in the same rest stop
It was wall on the same damn shirt
It was all on the same Greyhound
Sunspots
In the house of the late scapegoat
Be aware the paint's still peeling
All muscle cars made of lead
I got myself a fine, fine, fine, fine friend
It was all in the next gray ghost
It was all in the same damn place
The parts to pound attractive
Your feeling you owe on your size is bleeding
Sunspots

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Track details

From The Fruit That Ate Itself

0:381997
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The Fruit That Ate Itself
The Fruit That Ate Itself
Modest Mouse
13th May 1997
Track number
1
Release year
1997
  1. 1Sunspots
    0:38
  2. 2The Waydown
    2:30
  3. 3Fruit
    0:53
  4. 4Dirty Fingernails
    3:20

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