Missed the Boat Chords by Modest Mouse

[Intro]
D G D G D G D G
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[Verse]
D                         
While we're on the subject
         D                     
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
        D                   
We were begging for the past
        G                          
Well we know we had the good things
          G                   
But those never seemed to last
               D    G
Oh please just last ■
D                 
Everyone's unhappy
D                 
Everyone's ashamed
        G                          
Well we all just got caught looking
   G                   
At somebody else's page
     D                
Well nothing ever went
      D                    
Quite exactly as we planned
    G                  
Our ideas held no water
                            D
But we used them like a dam ■


[Chorus]
          A                 G   
Oh and we carried it all so well
   G                       
As if we got a new position
D        F#m7                 G   
Oh and I laugh all the way to hell
       G                           
Saying Yes this is a fine promotion
D        F#m7          A           G
Oh and I laugh all the way to hell ■


[Verse]
          D                  
Of course everyone goes crazy
     D                     
Over such and such and such
G                         
We made ourselves a pillar
        G                  
We just used it as a crutch
        D                  
We were certainly uncertain
             D               
At least I'm pretty sure I am
        G                    
Well we didn't need the water
                                D   
But we just built that good God damn


[Chorus]
         F#m7      A  G     
Oh and I know this of myself
  G                              
I assume as much for other people
D        F#m7         G     
Oh and I know this of myself
      G                              
We've listened more to life's endgong
D        A                     G    
Than the sound of life's sweet bells


[Inst]
D F#m7 G F#7 D A
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F#m7 G F#sus4 F#m7
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[Verse]
A                   
Was it ever worth it
          A                    
Was there all that much to gain
        A                      
Well we knew we missed the boat
         G#7                     
And we'd already missed the plane
                   D     
We didn't read the invite
        D                
We just dance at our wake
                       G      
All our favorites were playing
            G                            
So we could shake shake shake shake shake
D                                                             
Tiny curtain's open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
       G                                      Gmaj7 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                      Gmaj7           G                     D
When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat ■


[Chorus]
          F#m7              G   
Oh and we carried it all so well
   G                       
As if we got a new position
D         F#m7                G        
Oh and we owned all the tools ourselves
                      Em7              
But not the skills to make a shelf with
D       F#m7          G        
Oh what useless tools ourselves


[Outro]
D Dsus4 D Gmaj7 G D Dsus4 D
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G Gmaj7 G D
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[End]