Clouds
Status
Cover Song
Written By
Sam Coomes
Recording Sessions
July 1997 (Moon Music - Olympia, WA - Modest Mouse)
Availability of Official Release
Live at Largo (not a studio recording, soundboard recording of a live performance on 4/11/98 at Largo in Los Angeles, CA)
An 18-second video clip of Sam Coomes and Elliott playing this song at Moon Music studios appears on the 1997 “Untitled” documentary about Modest Mouse. Coomes is playing guitar and singing scratch vocals while Elliott joins in on second guitar. The recording cuts in and is aborted.
Lyrics
Molecules disipate, disperse and recoagulate
Breath in and out, there is nothing more
I am mist, you are steam, we are clouds
We are drifting away, drifting away
to one of many heavens where blue light prevails
We dream perfect music, we hang from our tails
to one of many hells and sharpen up our horns
Plotting our revenge by waiting to be born
Particles of light, particles of matter
come together for an instant…
then scatter.
First Known Live Performance
1997-05-09 (Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA)
Audio
(taken from the performance on 4/11/98 at Largo)