• Song:

    Ocean Breathes Salty

  • Artist:

    Modest Mouse

  • Album:

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

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty


Intro

Em D C x4


     Em          D               C
Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in
      Em          D              C
In my head, in my heart, in my soul
    Em              D               C
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again
             Em                  D                     C
Well I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, don't think so


     C                  G
Well that is that and this is this
    F                              G
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get
         C           G          F           G
You get away from me.  You get away from me
   C                          G
Collected my belongings and I left the jail
     F                                G
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell
         C            G          F
I had to think awhile.  I had to think awhile

Em D C x4

    Em             D                C
The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
        Em            D                 C
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul
    C                G              F             G
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old
             C                   G               F        G
Well I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I hope so


     C                  G
Well that is that and this is this
    F                              G
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get
         C           G          F           G
You get away from me.  You get away from me
   C                          G
Collected my belongings and I left the jail
     F                                G
Well thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell
         C            G          F            G
I had to think awhile.  I had to think awhile
     C                  G
Well that is that and this is this
         F                             G
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed
         C        G       F G
When the ocean met the sky
G               C                   G                    F G
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye
G        C            G          F G
When the Earth folded in on itself
                 C
And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell

Are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath."

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

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

Em D G
Em D G G7M
Em D G
Em D G G7M

    Em             D                G
The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
        Em            D                 G G7M
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul
    Em            D                   G
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind
             Em                  D                  C
Well I don't mind, I don't mind, how the hell could I mind?


     C                  G
Well that is that and this is this
    F                              G
You tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you get
         C           G          F           G
You get away from me.  You get away from me
     C                  G
Well that is that and this is this
         F                             G
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed
         C        G       F G
When the ocean met the sky
G          C                      G                C
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?

 G7M

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