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Night On The Sun
You're The Good Things
Here It Comes

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Willful Suspension Of Disbelief Tab

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Modest Mouse: "Willful Suspension of Disbelief"
Tabbed by Alan A. 



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OUTRO (2:28) - play 5x
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Sir Stuff Professional	#1 by Sir Stuff at Mar 25, 1972 at 9:08 AM EST
	is brock an atheist? i would most assuredly say he has to be, but there is always this dichotomy in mm's lyrics that leaves one to question. this song really expresses the impossibility of a heaven and hell in the physical sense, as obviously, one will never be found. still, something about this song, maybe the title, tells me that brock still has some religous/spiritual inclinations or struggles.

No Picture devon Average	#2 by devon patterson at May 22, 1974 at 7:07 PM EST
	People who believe in god are never going to change. They are just going to twist the meaning of everything to suit their beliefs. People who don't believe in him however know what a rad song this is.

No Picture spencer Wanna Be	#3 by spencer mccarthy at Apr 12, 1975 at 11:45 AM EST
	serilazareth is completely right about the title..ive read about the "willful suspension of disbelief" with alot of different writers and little articles that talk about it being about letting go of your boundaries and your understanding of reality when you read a fiction or watch a movie..thats exactly what brock is getting at..we believe in this completely impossible possibility despite the complete and total lack of proof (ie the air that justd get thinner and the land that just gets deeper)..we suspend our grasp of reality to believe what we want just like in reading books and watching movies

No Picture David Average	#4 by David Gilmour at Dec 20, 1975 at 11:08 AM EST
	Willful Suspension of Disbelief is a literary device describing what you do when you come in contact with a piece of fiction that bends the rules you know. For example, elves don't exist but if you read the Lord of the Rings you have to suspend the impulse to say "elves don't exist, this is garbage." ironic how its about religion. maybe its saying how people will keep believing in an afterlife and the rewards of religion just because it gives them security, no matter the evidence against it.

No Picture IvZ Average	#5 by IvZ at Mar 5, 1976 at 8:18 AM EST
	Unless you speak with Isaac Broc you won't find the exact meaning, but i think theres a good chance it has something to do with religion. Like Zouyan said you need to duspend your disbelief, the title is a double negative, it means decide to stop your disbelief, of what he does not say but belief is often referred to religion. I also like how he says, "A thousand graves down without turnin' around or finding hell." that kinda gave it away.

No Picture robert Average	#6 by robert liedberg at Jun 28, 1977 at 4:40 PM EST
	I would like to call attention to the opening lines of "Doin’ the Cockroach": “I was in heaven; I was in hell. Believe in neither, But fear them as well."

No Picture Julian Average	#7 by Julian . at Mar 17, 1984 at 10:18 PM EST
	mrpoopoohead was right when he said he was wrong. and his name is inmature, it makes me laugh, esspically after viewing one of brocks side projects "Ugly casanova"'s music video for "Things I don't remember". Anyway, lots of brock's stuff (the never ending math equation, this one, etc.) talks about how trippy time and space are and how frusterating it is to think about. I think that "everywhere and his nasty parol tricks" talks about how there really is no everywhere because space keeps going. Hwo can you define an indefinity. This is a "nasty parlor trick". P.s. brock, if you are out there, may all your questions find answers. I hopeless hope so for you

No Picture Steve Wanna Be	#8 by Steve Williams at May 27, 1990 at 10:21 AM EST
	yeah, this is my favorite song by mm, yeah, i agree about the heaven and hell theme, i thought the same thing first time i read the lyrics, you can never find heaven or hell no matter how far you go.

No Picture Trevor Average	#9 by Trevor fun with drugs at Jan 17, 1991 at 9:14 AM EST
	this song could easily have religious connotations. you'll never find heaven or hell.

No Picture Guitar Master Wanna Be	#10 by Guitar Master J at Dec 23, 1991 at 12:22 PM EST
	While the heaven and hell thing makes a lot of sense, I don't know if it is entirely plausable given the fact that Isaac Brock is a very outspoken atheist. He states that clearly in many of the songs, so I'm just not sure if that factor fits in.

No Picture Alexxx <3 Lead Player	#11 by Alexxx <3 at Jun 19, 1993 at 8:00 AM EST
	wow, dancingbears that seems very plausable. when he talks about the sky never ending, it could be seens you will never find heaven. and digging down, you will never find hell. and the name of the song cause you need to duspend your disbelief to have faith in religion.

No Picture jordan Average	#12 by jordan roberts at Jan 19, 1996 at 12:49 PM EST
	You guys ever heard of agnosticism? A descriptor for those people that don't necessarily believe in a god, but also don't flat out deny the existence of one. I think Brock leans more toward this than atheism, as he seems to be posing questions about it. A lot of times he even seems to assume the existence of a god in order to say some caustic shit about him!

No Picture kostas Rhythm Player	#13 by kostas kouveliotis at Apr 6, 1997 at 8:23 AM EST
	i think its about what zouyan said and also maybe how amazing and wierd the thought of "everywhere" is. "The sky doesn't ever end The air just gets much thinner further up" "You could keep diggin' down and down A thousand graves down without turnin' around or finding hell You find you're diggin' up again" maybe the cd title is Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks because the thought of "everywhere" helped create religion. hahaha this is all random thoughts that are almost for sure wrong.

No Picture Rich Average	#14 by Rich Frazer at Sep 18, 2003 at 5:08 AM EST
	this song is about drowning....just listen to it and read the lyrics....it makes sense....plus the song has a whole watery feel to it when you listen to it

No Picture Chris Rhythm Player	#15 by Chris Marcoux at Feb 5, 2004 at 9:17 AM EST
	"It's all so plain its all a plan It's all so plain to most everyone" This line is causing me debate. At first I thought that it was about belief in God. A lot of people believe that God has a plan for everyone and everything. That's what I think he's referencing when he says "it's all a plan." And this concept is clear to so many religious people... "it's plain to everyone." But then again, he could be saying that there is nothing beyond what we can see. There is no magic... "it's all so plain." Yet I still wonder what he meant by "plan".