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 . * * * *