On the heels of “Coyotes” and “Lampshades On Fire,” Modest Mouse have shared “The Best Room,” the penultimate track from their upcoming new album Strangers To Ourselves. The song’s pretty political, taking issue with the degradation of Western civilization: “Let loose with your charms, go reckless unharmed, we all signed the card: ‘Get well, but don’t you try too hard,'” Issac Brock begins the song with a fervor. “The lessons unlearned, oh this meeting it’s adjourned! These western concerns, ‘Hold my place in line while I take your turn.'” Along with the new track the band has announced that they’re pushing the release date back a few weeks to 3/17, but on the flip side, they’ve shared the tracklist, which contains some very Modest Mouse-y song names. Listen to “The Best Room” and check out the tracklist below.

Lyrics:

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 it’s adjourned! These western concerns, “Hold my place in line while I take 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’d want. The bathroom’s outside, police tape is tied to the door knobs from rooms nine through thirty-two. Aw! 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 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, the novelist to my right’s 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.

Don’t ya don’t ya know it’s hard feeling tired every time that you try? Ain’t it hard feeling tired all the time. Don’t ya don’t ya know. I am gonna bury my head in the woods right now. Scan for some mycelia and bring a little back to town. But don’t ya don’t ya know it’s hard feeling tired every time that you try.

Go reckless unharmed. Yep the shut-ins they’re well armed. We all led the charge, till we ran aground in our party barge, and every little gift was just one more part of their grift. Oh yeah we know it. The best news that we all got was just some dumb hokum we’d all bought. Let’s go 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!