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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 10, 2009 0:38:36 GMT -5
Hey everyone. I've been thinking alot about "Mouse" lately. I've been wondering what the lyrics are about and if the lyrical theme parallels the situation about the mouse in the beginning. I remember reading in an interview once that Kevin challenged himself to write the song in an hour.
The voicemail at the beginning of the song is just hysterical. i love it..
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Post by wiche on Oct 10, 2009 0:50:07 GMT -5
Moore didn't write Mouse... his roomate, Todd Farringont, did write that song... Moore just composed the music ^^
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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 10, 2009 10:16:46 GMT -5
I thought they wrote it together. You saying the lyrics were by Todd? You might be right.
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Post by vivace on Oct 10, 2009 12:16:03 GMT -5
hmmm really? I thought Todd was the one who left the voice mail but Kevin wrote the other lyrics.
I think its mentioned on that old chromakey web site where ever it is?
I love the song absolutely fabulous. I havent thought too much about the lyrics though and they have always struck me as being somewhat difficult to reconcile with the mouse thing. Streams and levels rising and the sun is dying...what does that have to do with Todds mouse? hmmm interesting will have to think about it.
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Post by wiche on Oct 10, 2009 14:18:20 GMT -5
well... the voice in the phone is Todd... and according to DAFR songbook the lyrics were written by Todd...
"All tracks by Kevin Moore except tracks (3) and (4) by Moore and Zonder lyrics on (8) by Todd Farrington"
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Post by morten73 on Oct 11, 2009 4:53:46 GMT -5
From web.archive.org/web/19990427083728/http://chromakey.com/Song descriptionThe demo for this song (which is exactly the same as the album version, recorded on better equipment) was written and recorded in 2 hours, and I hope it shows.
My roommate at the time and I set out to write/record a song in an hour. Todd went off to write lyrics while I came up with some music to go with a drum pattern I borrowed from a song that I had been working on for weeks (On the Page).
The sample that goes on throughout the song is a real answering machine message from a previous housemate when I was living in Brooklyn. He had been going through this ongoing battle with this mouse that would wake him up every night with the sounds of scratching and chewing in his bedroom.
One night he decided to find it, and the message was left right after he did (we had seperate phones - I lived upstairs). What happened next - a devious plan involving spring traps, glue traps, cheese and a video camera - formed the basis of the video for the song, which we hope to get up on the web site soon. There's even made a video for it...  |
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Post by sknowbird on Oct 11, 2009 5:30:52 GMT -5
And the winner is... morten73 by an effin' landslide!  If that detective work doesn't deserve Karma i dunno what does! ;D And, yes! Holy mackeral a video never released for it too?!? +1 |
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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 11, 2009 11:18:36 GMT -5
Thanks, Morten! Nice detective work!
I gotta say, for writing a song in two hours "Mouse" is awesome.
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Post by vivace on Oct 11, 2009 15:32:07 GMT -5
wow!! thanks Morten!
I still have no idea how the lyrics are connected to the Mouse but i havent thought about that much.
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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 12, 2009 14:36:10 GMT -5
Any have an idea what the lyrics are about? I really don't understand them much.
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Post by vivace on Oct 12, 2009 15:10:08 GMT -5
Aliens!--kidding  All i can seem to glean at this point is that maybe it has something to do with the day ->night->day cycle. The stream rising i guess water level is affected by the moons position. ugg why does she step into a stream and what if anything does this have to do with the mouse!! intriguing |
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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 12, 2009 15:24:35 GMT -5
Well, the general idea of the lyrics seems pretty clear. Seems like a couple got into a major fight and she keeps looking out the window to see if he's gonna come home that night, because it's almost dark outside. I say this because there are two people in the song - a he and she (HIS wayward love and then the female character in the stream.)
I'm not sure if "the flower" actually means a flower or is a metaphor for something else. And I have no idea what "the stream" is. The whole "stream" thing is really the main object/location in the song. Again, it could be a metaphor for something and not even bee a water stream. Maybe it's a different kind of stream.
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Post by vivace on Oct 12, 2009 15:45:43 GMT -5
OK i agree theres some kind of love thing but lets go through it: Who took it back? i guess the guy took it back because guys usually give the flowers and because she had been mislead... yes i guess she is wayward because he mislead her. Now she is checking the window looking for him to come back before sun set like you said Mebes. His absence puts her into disarray. she stayed up all night(the song is very sad  ) no clue. Maybe she is moving on?? But what is the level? She is being swept away? WE'RE so misled..hmmm a level is kind of abstract so its hard to pin down. if we had a theory for what it refers to it could help us understand the stream??? beautiful song though |
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Post by Mebert78 on Oct 12, 2009 15:52:09 GMT -5
I like your close look at the lyrics. I do disagree with one thing. You said SHE is the misled one, but i think it's him. He took the flower back because his wayward love had been misled by her. She took advantage of him while he was in a wayward state. She misled him. Now she feels guilty about it or realizes she really misses him and is hoping he will come back? The stream thing I don't get at all. Maybe she is drowning herself?
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Post by wiche on Oct 12, 2009 15:55:53 GMT -5
oh damn, stop with that or i will start to cry =|
damn beautiful sad song! damn u Moore... u did it again!
argh
/fadeaway
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Post by vivace on Oct 12, 2009 16:03:40 GMT -5
I like your close look at the lyrics. I do disagree with one thing. You said SHE is the misled one, but i think it's him. He took the flower back because his wayward love had been misled by her. She took advantage of him while he was in a wayward state. She misled him. Now she feels guilty about it or realizes she really misses him and is hoping he will come back? The stream thing I don't get at all. Maybe she is drowning herself? I interpreted the "his wayward love" to be her. i.e. he calls her "my love"--like "my love has been misled". But either way it makes sense. I will point out though that in your interpretation the line "apologies she wont except" --why would HE apologize if she misled him? |
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Post by vivace on Oct 12, 2009 16:06:27 GMT -5
yes drowning seems to be the obvious take on it. I guess i resist it because it just seems so dire and severe unlike Moore's usual lyrics...but then again Moore didnt write these did he? Maybe he included the mouse to lighten things up?
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i am starting to agree with you more. She mislead his love.
man what a song!
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Post by communicant on Oct 13, 2009 10:25:56 GMT -5
Maybe it's a love story about mice? ;D
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