Education Lyrics - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse

Call it education 

It was somewhere in between 

You gave me some sound advice 

But I wasn't listening 

After we had capsized 

I could tell you how you thought 

Well, I'm not sure 

But laid to rest on the city on the wall 

Not quite conversation 

It was somewhere in between 

You said everything is taught 

And I listened patiently 

All this talking pony 

Still monkies the whole time 

We could not help from flinging shit 

In our modern suits and ties 

Our instincts, they were cringing 

About how we lived our lives 

It didn't seem we'd lived enough 

To even get to die 

All these diss distractions 

So beautifully complex 

Well, I loved life's surprises so much 

I don't want to know what's happened 

Stubborn shouting, said 

"I don't do what you do" 

I don't know 

Could it really hear highly if you highly care? 

And you don't 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

I've been away 

Hardly education 

It was somewhere in between 

Oh, I hit the roof but I had 

Aimed for the ceiling 

Hardly education 

All them books I didn't 

They just sat there on my shelf 

Looking much smarter than me 

Good old Nostradamus 

He knew the whole damn time 

That always being east from west 

Someone is there fighting 

Stubborn shouting, said 

"I don't do what you do" 

I don't know 

Could it really hear highly if you highly care? 

And you don't 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

I've been away 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

I don't know anyway 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

I don't know 

Could it really hear highly if you highly care? 

And you don't 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

Uh.. I fell away 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

Oh, very well, then 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

Oh, very well, then 

Stubborn beauty, stubborn beauty 

Oh, very well, then 

Oh, very well, then