Modest Mouse – Missed The Boat (Guitar)

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Song: Missed the boat Artist: Modest Mouse Album: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Info: This is an acoustic chord rendition of the song. I'm not entirely sure about the A's and F#m's in the choruses (or if there are even any F#m's at all!). If you feel as though you have a correct assumption for the chords played in the chorus, feel free to leave a comment on this tab -- I check them as often as I can, and if I agree with your correction, I'll add it to the tab. Most importantly, enjoy!

Tab for the riff played throughout the song:
  D
e|-2h3p2----2h3p2----2h3p2----2-|
B|------3-3------3-3------3-3---|
G|-------2--------2--------2----|
D|-0--------0--------0--------0-|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|

e|------------------------------------|
B|-2h3p2-0-0--2h3p2-0-0--2h3p2-0-0--3-|
G|--------0----------0----------0-----|
D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|-3----------3----------3----------3-|

Intro: D D D D G G G G (4x)

D
While we're on the subject

Could we change the subject now?

      G
I was knocking on your ear's door but you were always out

D
Looking towards the future

We were begging for the past

        G
Well we knew we had the good things

But those never seemed to last

               D
Oh please just last

D D D G G G G

D
Everyone's unhappy

Everyone's ashamed

            G
Well we all just got caught looking

At somebody else's page

     D
Well nothing ever went

Quite exactly as we planned

    G
Our ideas held no water

But we used them like a dam

D          A                 G
Oh, and we carried it all so well

As if we got a new position

D         A                    G
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell

Saying yes, this is a fine promotion

D         F#m                  G G A A Bm Bm   G G G G A A
Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell

          D
Of course everyone goes crazy

Over such and such and such

   G
We made ourselves a pillar

We just used it as a crutch

        D
We were certainly uncertain

At least I'm pretty sure I am

        G
Well we didn't need the water

But we just built that good God dam

D         A              G
Oh, and I know this of myself

I assume as much for other people

D         A              G
Oh, and I know this of myself

We've listened more to life's end gong

D        F#m                   G G A A Bm Bm   G G G G A A
Than the sound of life's sweet bells

D D A A G G Was it ever worth it? Was there all that much to gain? Well we knew we missed the boat And we'd already missed the plane We didn't read the invite We just dance at our wake All our favorites were playing So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

D
Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands

       G
A tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks

        D
Sitting drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them

        G
When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat

D          A                 G
Oh, and we carried it all so well

As if we got a new position

D          A                   G
Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves

But not the skills to make a shelf with

D        F#m              G 
Oh, what useless tools ourselves

(The outro is still the same amount of bars, but strummed in a slower fashion -- listen to the song to see what I mean) Outro: D D D D G G G G