The View (acoustic) Chords
by Modest Mouse
The View (acoustic) by Modest Mouse is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords Am, Em, F, G6 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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
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
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)
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
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