People As Places As People Lyrics - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse

To answer a question 

It'll probably take more 

If you're already there 

Well, then you probably don't know 

Well, we were the people 

That we wanted to know 

And we're the places that we wanted to go 

It's hard to get hold of 

And hard to let go 

Always something we look for 

From the day we were born 

Instead, we're the people that we wanted to know 

And we're the places that we wanted to go 

Yeah, we're the places that we wanted to go 

We're the places that we wanted to go 

Always asking a question 

And I don't want to know 

Like the wind across strings 

That had finally let go 

And the people you love 

But you didn't quite know 

They're the places that you wanted to go 

Bark at the neighbor's 

And then bark at the dog 

Sniffing the wind 

Whimpering for someone to know 

But we were the people that we wanted to know 

And we're the places that we wanted go 

Yeah, we're the places that we wanted to go 

Yeah, we're the places that we wanted to go 

It was not the intention 

But we let it all go 

Well, it messed up the function 

And sure fucked up the flow 

I hardly have people that I needed to know 

'Cause you're the people that I wanted to know 

All this scrambling around 

Hunting high and then low 

Looking for the face love 

Or somewhere to go 

I hardly have places that I need to go 

'Cause you're the places that I wanted to go 

Yeah, you're the places that we wanted to go 

Yeah, you're the places that we wanted to go 

You're the people that we wanted to know 

Shouldn't have to ask 

You shouldn't have to ask 

'Cause we are your real place