modicum

small amount; a small or moderate or token amount

Heard in 5 songs (1.2M+ combined views) — most famously in "A Thanksgiving Prayer" by William S. Burroughs.

Updated March 2, 2025

Songs Featuring “modicum”

William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer

Time: 0:19

Thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer

Wilbur Soot - Oh Distant You

Time: 4:00

I was just the villain

And every single modicum of energy

I gave to all the little things

Wilbur Soot - Oh Distant You

At the Drive-In - Ghost-Tape No. 9

Time: 0:13

Through the walls at night

Exchanging currents through modicums

Of pernicious lust when tamed

At the Drive-In - Ghost-Tape No. 9

Books - Smells Like Content

Time: 2:14

So instead, we went ahead to fabricate a catalog

Of unstable elements and modicums and particles.

With not zero total strangeness for brief moments which amount

Books - Smells Like Content

Ludo - Such as It Ends

Time: 1:14

You know they can't all be saved

Leave the weak ones, find a modicum of shade

Love, such as it ends

Ludo - Such as It Ends