Album: Lonesome Crowded West (1997)

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• I'm going to Colorado
  To unload my head
  I'm going to New York City
  And that's in New York, friends
  
  I'm going to Arizona
  Sex on the rocks all warm and red
  And we bled
  And the writing in the stall said
  
  "we write our maps in the stalls"
  I'm going up to Alaska
  I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
  And we all did
  
  This truckers atlas roads the ways
  The freeways and highways don't know
  The buzz from the bird on my dash
  Road locomotive phone
  
  I don't feel and I feel great
  I sold my atlas by the freight stairs
  I do lines and I crossed roads
  I crossed the lines of all the great state roads
  
  I'm going up
  Going over to Montana
  You got yourself a trucker's atlas
  You knew you were all hot
  
  Maybe you'll go and blow a gasket
  You start at the northwest corner
  Go down through California
  Beeline you might drive three days
  
  Three nights to the tip of Florida
  Do you speak the lingo?
  Oh Oh No. No no
  How far does your road go?
  
  Oh no, you don't know
  I'm going to Colorado
  To unload my head
  I'm going to New York City
  
  And that's in New York, friends
  I'm going up to Alaska
  I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
  And we all did
  
  And the writing in the salt says
  We ride out to the stars
  I'm going to Arizona
  Sex on the rocks all warm and red
  
  This truckers atlas roads the ways
  The freeways and highways don't know
  The buzz from the bird on my dash
  Road locomotive phone Writer/s: ERIC JUDY, ISAAC BROCK, JEREMIAH GREEN
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Wixen Music Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Kerri from Chicago, IlHow could Brock have been a truck driver? As the other poster mentions, Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 and if he was old or not, i've never heard of him taking time out from the band to be a truck driver!!
  
  Also while we can certainly read the drugs into an MoMo song, there's a theme of disillusionment to this album--one place looks like the other, all places are the same and the consumer culture is taking over. we see this thematically in other songs as well--the idea that the landscape is disappearing and we along with it.
• Mrb from Seattle, OrIsaac Brock was not a truck driver. Sorry
  
  Considering that Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 when Brock was 18, and the song was released in 1997 (likely recorded in 1996, but I don't really know) puts Brock at age 21 maximum at the time the song was recorded; before he would be eligible to be a commercial driver of any kind, let alone a long-haul trucker.
• Mike from Willoughby, OhHa, I just got it that he sells his atlas for crack money.
  The entire second half of the song is just the same few measures of quiet guitar and steady drumming repeating; this is referring to how on the road or with life in general, after being excited by seeing so many different places, they all end up running together and seeming the same. Or he could be coming out of his high.
• John from Thorofare, NjHunter is correct, Issac Brock used to be a truck driver before he created modest mouse. Most of his older songs are about past lived memories i.e. when he was a truck driver he did cocaine to stay awake.
• Hunter from Va Beach, Va Its about a truck driver that has to stay awake and goin for hours and days at the time. He snorts COCAINE which he brakes up with a blade on his atlas instead of a mirror."I fell good, But I dont feel" is a refrence to being numbed from coke."I do lines and i crossedroads, i crossed the lines of all the great state roads" just means he's done lines an almost all the pages, over almost all the roads.

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