• Song:

    Ocean Breathes Salty

  • Artist:

    Modest Mouse

  • Album:

    2002-12-22: Seattle, WA...

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     Em7                             C
Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in. 

      Bm                            C
In my head, in my heart, in my soul. 

      Em7                            C
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again. 

      Bm                                       C
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't think so. 




     Em7                 C
Well that is that and this is this.

     G                      C
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.   

     Em7                 C
You get away from me. You get away from me. 

     G                  C
Collected my belongings and I left the jail. 
     
     Em7                  C
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell. 

     G                C
I had to think awhile. I had to think awhile. 





     Em7                   C
The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in? 

     Bm                    C
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul. 

     Em7                   C
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old. 

     Bm                    C
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I hope so. 



    
     Em7              C
Well that is that and this is this. 

     G                   C    
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get. 

     Em7                                    C
You get away from me. (You get away from me) You get away from me. 

    G                    C
Collected my belongings and I left the jail. 

    Em7                   C
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell. 

     G                                         C
I had to think awhile. (I had to think awhile) I had to think awhile. 




   Em7               C
Well that is that and this is this. 

   G                           C
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed, 

   Em7                C       D
when the ocean met the sky. (You missed, you missed)

   G                                      C                   D
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye. (You missed)

   Em7                   C            D
When the earth folded in on itself. (You missed)

   G                                      C                 D
And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell (You missed, you missed)

    Em7                     C                        D
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." (You missed, you missed)

    G                      C                      D
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death? (You missed, you missed)

    Em7                  C
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death? 



     Em7                   C
The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in? 

     Bm                    C
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul. 

     Em7                   C
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind. 

     Bm                           C
Well I don't mind. I don't mind. How the hell could I mind? 




     Em7                 C
Well that is that and this is this.

     G                      C
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get.   

     Em7                 C
You get away from me. You get away from me. 




  Em7               C
Well that is that and this is this. 

   G                           C
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed, 

   Em7                C       D
when the ocean met the sky. (You missed, you missed)

   G                          C
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?
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