Modest Mouse
Lyric guide

The Best Room

Read The Best Room lyrics by Modest Mouse on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.

Modest Mouse visibility1 visits Video on page
person Curated by Ethan Walker LyroVerse team
Reference snapshot

The page facts to cite before the commentary

Use this page for the lyric text, linked artist context, and any LyroVerse editor's note attached to the song. Listener comments remain user-generated and should not be treated as the primary source.

Page type: lyric reference Artist: Modest Mouse Canonical path: /modest-mouse/the-best-room Related lyric paths: 6 Video embedded: yes
Lyrics

The Best Room

The lyric stays readable and compact here; the note and related paths sit nearby so you do not lose the song while looking for context.

Let loose with your charms

Go reckless, unharmed

We all signed the card

"Get well, but don't you try too hard"

The lessons unlearned

Oh, this meeting is adjourned

Oh, these western concerns

Hold my place in line while I get your turn

To the empty balconies we serenade

All the playgrounds where them kids don't get to play

Dirty parkies went and chased them all away

To the game consoles to fatten

The best room they have

Is the last room you want

The bathroom's outside

Police tape is tied

To the doorknobs of rooms

Nine through thirty-two

Oh, these western concerns

We beg while we chew

These western concerns

Are all I ever really learned to be concerned with

But don't you, don't you know it's hard

Feeling tired every time that you try?

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?

The family living upstairs

Must have a fleet of rider lawn mowers

While the novelist to my right

Is convinced that every woman's a whore

But he bothers me time and again

To set him up with my very best friends

And I say, "What?!"

Says he doesn't restate, but he will not shut up!

Well don't you, don't you know it's hard

Feeling tired every time that you try?

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?

Don't you, don't you know

I ain't goin' to bed

Ring my head in the woods right now

Scan for some mycelium

And bring a little back to town

Well don't you, don't you know it's hard

Feeling tired every time that you try?

Ain't it hard feeling tired all the time?

Go reckless, unharmed

Yep, the shut-ins, they're well armed

Well, we all led the charge

'Til we ran aground in our party barge

Every little gift was just one more part of their grift

Oh, yeah, we know it

Oh, yeah, we know it

The best news that we got

Was some dumb hokum we'd all bought

Oh, though reckless, feeling great

We're the sexiest of all primates

Let's let loose with our charms

Shake our ass and wave our arms

All going apeshit

Quick answers

What this page can answer fast

Who performs "The Best Room"?

Modest Mouse performs "The Best Room", and this lyric page sits inside the Modest Mouse catalog on LyroVerse.

Are there related songs to explore after "The Best Room"?

Yes. The related section below points to 5-4-3-2-1... Lips Off and Bury Me With It with a short reason for opening each page next.

Where can I find more songs by Modest Mouse?

Use the artist link near the top of the page or the related paths section below to keep moving through Modest Mouse's lyric pages.

Song Room

Interpretations, questions, and corrections for this song

Interpretations, questions, memories, and correction notes live together here. The room stays noindex while the best insights are reviewed.

Open Song Room
0 followers Selected insights only surface after moderation
Listener comments

What people are saying

0 comments
Add a short interpretation or memory

A strong comment here is specific: the phrase you keep hearing, the mood you come back for, or the reason this song stays in rotation.

Sign in to post the first listener note. Reporting stays open to everyone.

No listener comments on The Best Room yet.