Modest Mouse Lyrics
"Transmitting Receiving"

Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains
Smartphones, doorbells, refrigerators, pencils, hens, paper, skin
Hair, watermelons, alligators, volcanoes 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
(Well, nothing in this world is gonna petrify me)
Blinds, struts, beaks, shocks, tornadoes, crockpots, kumquats
(We are repeating)
Baseballs, plants both big and small, oysters, muscles, mirrors, walls
(We are transmitting)
EKG, balloon, cocoons, macadamias, plankton blooms
(We are receiving)
Sulfur pools, rivers, ice, steam, patent leather, lice
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device)
(We are repeating)
Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls
(We are transmitting)
Lights at four-way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders
(We are receiving)
Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth's core)
(We are repeating)
Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me
(We've been transmitting)
Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers
(We've been receiving)
Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains

But some things aren't visible
But some things aren't visible
Like yesterday, beams of light
Cell phone calls and tomorrow
Like yesterday, beams of light
Cell phone calls and tomorrow
But some things aren't visible
But some things aren't visible
Beams of light, breath and wind
Yesterday and tomorrow
No, some things aren't visible

Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device
Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls
Lights at four-way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars)
(We are repeating)
Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth's core
(Always vibrating)
Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me
(We are transmitting)
Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes)
(We are repeating)
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains
(We are transmitting)
EKG, balloon, cocoons, macadamias, plankton blooms
(We are receiving)
Sulfur pools, rivers, ice, steam, patent leather, lice ​
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device)
(We are repeating)
Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls
(We are transmitting)
Lights at four-way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders
(We are receiving)
Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars
Well, nothing in this world's gonna petrify me
(Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth's core)
(We are repeating)
Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me
(We've been transmitting)
Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers
(We've been receiving)
Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains

But some things aren't visible
But some things aren't visible
Like yesterday, beams of light
Cell phone calls and tomorrow
Like yesterday, beams of light
Cell phone 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