"Transmitting Receiving" lyrics - MODEST MOUSE
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains
Smartphones, doorbells, refrigerators, pencils, hens, paper
Skin, hair, watermelons, alligators, volcanos and super freighters
Dust on floors, grease in pores, the food you eat, opened doors
From mountains to the shoes you bought
Scissor lifts, toys, rocks, grass, asps, planets, tin, magnets
Rabbits, palms, dreams, an ocean of our own air
Quarks, stars, defibrillators, blinds, struts, beaks, shocks
Tornados, crockpots, kumquats, baseballs, plants both big and small (We are repeating)
Oysters, muscles, mirrors, walls, EKG, balloons
Cocoons, macadamias, plankton blooms (We are receiving)
Sulfur pools, rivers, ice, steam, patent leather, lice
Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device (Nothing in this world's gonna petrify me)
Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks
Moles and trolls, lights at 4 way stops, spiders
Mushrooms, atoms and their colliders (We are transmitting)
Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars
Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth's core
Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me
Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers
Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains
[Chorus:]
But some things aren't visible
But some things aren't visible
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls
And tomorrow
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls
And tomorrow
No some things aren't visible
We are repeating, always vibrating, we are transmitting
Nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
We are repeating, we are transmitting, we are receiving
(Well nothing in this world's gonna petrify me)
Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars (We are repeating, we are transmitting, we are receiving)
Well nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
We are repeating, we've been transmitting
We've been receiving
But some things aren't visible
But some things aren't visible
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls
And tomorrow
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls
And tomorrow
No some things aren't visible
No some things aren't visible
Beams of light, breath and wind, yesterday
And tomorrow
No some things aren't visible
