Modest Mouse - The View Acoustic

artist : modest mouse
album : good news for people who love bad news
song : the view

standard tuning eadgbe ( capo optional , wherever you think it fits best )

these chords are meant to be easy enough to sing along with , so they’re not 100%
like the real song , but hey , first chords ever for this song .

Am Em
your gun went off

F G6
well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you

Am Em F
my mouth runs on too

– – –

Am Em
shouts from both sides ,

F G6
“well we’ve got the land but they’ve got the view!”

Am Em F
well now here’s the clue

Am Em
life it rents us

F G6
and yeah i hope it put plenty on you

Am Em F
well i hope mine did too

– – –
chorus :

C G6
as life gets longer , awful feels softer

Em F
well it feels pretty soft to me

C G6
and if it takes shit to make bliss ,

Em F
then i feel pretty blissfully

– – –

Am Em
your gun went off

F G6
well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you

Am Em F
my mouth runs on too

Am Em
shouts from both sides ,

F G6
“well we’ve got the land but they’ve got the view!”

Am Em F
well now here’s the clue

Am Em F G6
we are fiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed

Am Em F
right where we stand

– – –

Am Em
life it rents us

F G6
and yeah i hope it put plenty on you

Am Em F
well i hope mine did too

Am Em F G6
we are fiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed

Am Em F
right where we are

– – –
chorus :

C G6
as life gets longer , awful feels softer

Em F
well it feels pretty soft to me

C G6
and if it takes shit to make bliss ,

Em F
then i feel pretty blissfully

– – –
pre – solo : ( isaac screaming into some police speaker – style thing )

C G6 Em
for every invention made how much time did we save?

F
we’re not much farther than we were in the cave

– – –
( solo )
* * no chords are that apparent but i pulled this together , sounds 10% like the real
song but its something . * *

Am E G6 F ( listen to the song for timing )
– – –
breakdown : strum each of these chords once or twice .

C G6
as life gets longer , awful feels softer , and it

Em F
feels pretty soft to me

C G6
and if it takes shit to make bliss ,

Em F
well i feel pretty blissfully

C G6
if life’s not beautiful without the pain ,

Em F
well i’d just rather never ever even see . . . beauty again

C G6
well as life gets longer , awful feels softer

Em F
and it . . . feels pretty soft to me , oh hooo
– – –
pre chorus : ( again isaac screaming into the police speaker thing )

C G6 Em
for every good deed done there is a crime committed

F
we are fixed

C G6 Em
for every step ahead we could have just been seated

F
we are fixed
– – –
chorus outro :

C G6
as life gets longer , awful feels softer

Em F
well it feels pretty soft to me

C G6
and if it takes shit to make bliss ,

Em F
then i feel pretty blissfully

C G6
we are fixed

Em F
we are fixed

C G6
we are fixed

Em F
right where we . . . stand

* * * * i Am very open to corrections . please feel free to leave any . * * * *