Picking Dragons’ Pockets Songtext
von Modest Mouse

I ain′t your passenger now
I ain't your passenger now
Nor your equipment

An auditory trick
They′re a boot that begs to be licked
I am the tarmac, I'm the pilot
I'm the flight path, can′t get past that

Well, they′ll go crazy
If you don't go crazy somehow
And I′m not crazy 'bout
What they′re so crazy 'bout now

We′ve been eatin' our own
We've been eating our young
We′ve been eatin′ our own young

Idle hands around the devil's throat
A suicide note that another′s hand wrote
And we're used to this


And they′ll go crazy
If you don't go crazy somehow
And I′m not crazy 'bout
What they're so crazy ′bout now

Picking dragons′ pockets and away we go
Breathe in poison, then you breathe out smoke
It's clear I′m looking for an anecdote
Well, you pay for garbage, and you've cast your vote

I found out just how low I′d go
Came up from the bottom, looking like a ghost
I tried to go to Auckland but just did not go
Turns out when it rains, it snows

A pile of leaves in the wind
Fresh clothes on dirty skin
The means to meet no ends again

Picking dragons' pockets and away we go
My eyes are their eyes, watch the show
Facts aren′t facts on screens that glow
We're a pretty tricky little animal

Well, I'm not crazy ′bout
What they′re so crazy 'bout now
And they′ll go crazy
If you don't go crazy somehow


The looked-at side of a microscope
Voice to skull, try to crush your soul
But we′re a pretty tricky little animal
Killers get killed, that's just the way it goes

Well, something that I know for sure
Is love makes love, and hate makes more
We′re a pretty tricky little animal
We're a pretty tricky little animal

Something that I know for sure
Is love makes love, but hate makes more
For sure, a pretty tricky little animal
We're a pretty tricky little animal

I ain′t your passenger now
I ain′t your passenger now
I'm just equipment

We′ve been eatin' our own
We′ve been eatin' our young
We′ve been eatin' our own young