WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Modest Mouse - The View Chords | Ver. 1
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
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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
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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 sh*t to make bliss,
Em F
then I feel pretty blissfully
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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
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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
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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 sh*t to make bliss,
Em F
then I feel pretty blissfully
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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
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(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)
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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 sh*t 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
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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
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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 sh*t 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.****
