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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Custom Concern (page 1/1) ------ performed by Modest Mouse My view. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/5/09 Well, firstly, I think the slow and laborious, yet melodious tone of the music is representative of a journey through the dull and often repetitive routines of the average suburban life. The lyrics? They are excellent. The buildings and monuments wear out our eyes. We get up in the morning and have to force ourselves out of bed and drag ourselves across the concrete, the paving, and do our job, even when the said job is not our passion. MM makes us aware that there might be something better for us, and makes us aware that the life described in the song is a life unfulfilled. The suburban dweller experiences life as a burden, and eventually it becomes heavier and heavier, it feels to him as if it will never end, as if it will never stop, but he pushes on nevertheless. MM thinks that going about life this way is wrong. If we continue going on in this way, we will end up building a desert - a place where life and passion are rare things indeed. We might even build ourselves a literal desert if we don't change the way we live. Global warming is getting pretty serious. Damn.... | Reviewer: theresa | 10/18/09 i love MM and this song especially, and my favourite part of this song was i had originally for years thought that it went: I don't feel at all like i thought. i loved that line. now i see it is: I don't feel at all like i fall. for some reason i'm kind of upset. 2 cents | Reviewer: Brent | 3/1/09 [sic], shut your driveling pie hole. Thanks. I believe you could have summed the entirety of your comment into this: "I am jealous of the sophisticated writing of another, and now I must rage." Who are you to choose right and wrong for another? Furthermore, you belittle Brock, and his band, by stating that their music is not analytical. You are barely worthy enough to have ears, fool. This song, to me, sympathizes with my lackluster motivation at times to continue. The older I become, the less I appreciate society and function. The lyrics point out some truths that are less than satisfying to understand. It's like, helplessness, unwilling to continue or end. Trapped in a downfall forever. sdfgh | Reviewer: ryan | 2/19/09 i'm sorry, sic. but your fucking gay, kurtis's comment was very insightful, and is also what i feel the song is about, and if you think bob dylan's music is the only music with metaphors, your wrong, because if you watch interviews with him about his music he says how it doesnt really mean what every one thinks it does. so the fact of the matter is that your a faggot, because the quetion was to say what the song means to you, and thats what kurtis did Re: Kurtis | Reviewer: [sic] | 12/22/08 I'm sorry, Kurtis. You're writing on an advertisement filled website in such an essay-like manner it made me cringe. You don't need to sound like you have a stick up your ar5e, in attempting to make your comment sound overly sophisticated you have made a hypocrite of yourself and voided your own comment. Speak from your own point of view and maybe you won't sound like a text book. Also, to acknowledge and examine are completley different functions. You seem to be looking too far in to this song for some extra meaning. Music should never be over analysed as much as you have just shown here. Except for Bob Dylan, he was so full of metaphors there was no other way to understand exactly what he was talking about. i changed "of" to "for" on the first line | Reviewer: Brandon | 5/8/08 The custom concern for the people is Build up monuments and steeples To wear out our eyes I get up just about noon My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta have a job Goes through the parking lot fields Didn't see no signs that they would yield And then thought, this'll never end This'll never end, this'll never stop Message read on the bathroom wall Said, "I don't feel at all like I fall." And we're losing all touch, losing all touch Building a desert What Custom Concern means to me? | Reviewer: Andy | 12/3/07 I first heard this song in British Columbia when a frenchman, who I had been living in "res" with was listening. I had been listening to the same music working out in the middle of nowhere in the Rockie mountains (Emerald Lake) and he put Modest mouse in the stereo and I was hooked...A day I felt like quiting. It was paradise and I wanted to leave...his song made me feel at home in a place that looked like heaven. Being in heaven and having to work... thats what Custom Concern means to me. Beautiful | Reviewer: Kurtis Repstock | 11/21/07 Very poignant song I find best to listen to when walking home directly after work. Watching/Examining the strucutre of our society and the functions we go through to perpetuate the systems of design. The mentality of questioning our everyday lives, why we go to work everyday and live the lives we do. Brock seems to sing in a tone that recognizes that idea. The simple acknowledgment of our world and how we are living it. MM questions these things; you should too! Beautiful | Reviewer: Kurtis Repstock | 11/20/07 Very poignant song I find best to listen to when walking home directly after work. Acknowledging/Examining the structure of our society and what other people are doing. Brock seems to sing with a recognition to that idea. The mentality of a person who wonders/questions why they go to work everyday/live the life they are living, etc. Add Your New Review About The Song