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This is just a cool song by a band I like, couldn't find a tab so i'll make one
Listen to the song to figure out strumming.
Chords
C C(add D) Am Asus Em Em7 F
e--0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --3-- --1--
b--1-- --3-- --1-- --3-- --0-- --3-- --1--
g--0-- --0-- --2-- --2-- --0-- --0-- --2--
d--2-- --2-- --2-- --2-- --2-- --2-- --3--
a--3-- --3-- --0-- --0-- --2-- --2-- --3--
E--0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --1--
Intro (strum)
C C(add D) Am Asus Em Em7 F
C C(add D)
Well, all the apostles there sitting in swings
Am Asus
Saying I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
Em Em7 F Hold Chord
and some sandals with the style of straps that cling best to the era
C C(add D)
Well all the busnesses and unlimited heck
Am Asus
where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash
Em Em7 F Hold Chord
to each other, till their sick of it all, till their bankrupt on selling
C C(add D)
Well all of the angels they'd sell of you soul
Am Asus
for a set of new wings or anything gold
Em Em7
they remember the people their freinds and their loved one but I've
F
seen through it all, seen through it all, seen through most everything
C C(add D) Am Asus
All the people you knew were the actors
Em Em7 F
All the people you knew were the actors
(Play the Song riff one time through)
C C(add D)
Well I'll go to colledge and I'll learn some big words
Am Asus
and I'll talk real loud you know I'll be heard
Em Em7
and you'll remember they guy who said all those big words he musta learned in
F Hold Chord
colledge
(Play the song riff one time through)
C C(add D)
Well it took along time till I came clean with myself
Am Asus
I came clean outta love with my lover
Em Em7 F Hold Chord
I still love her, loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kinder
End on a C chord
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Gabe Average |
#1 by Gabe Hawkins at Apr 28, 1970 at 7:36 PM EST |
| I love how mellow and deep this song is. | |
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Doolittle Lead Player |
#2 by Doolittle at Jan 17, 1971 at 9:50 AM EST |
| blurppi had a good interpretation. "i'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings and some sandals with the style of straps that cling best to the era" love that line, he’s just saying that this desire is a part of humanity, in any “era.” We sell our souls to do what’s fashionable at the time (making money or going to college are both trends like that). in the end we're never really satisfied. Success is relative and so are our desires; the more you get the more you want. At the end when he says he came clean with himself, he’s being honest with himself that no amount of success or education will make him a better person. with the comment about loving his girlfriend more when she was sober. I think all these behaviors, drinking included, are just ways of trying to fill voids in our lives through outside means but we really have to face and accept ourselves. akfjl;dadfk fkfl I don’t know good song though | |
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Alex Wanna Be |
#3 by Alex Jurek at Jun 1, 1974 at 3:19 PM EST |
| *sighs* this is such a great song... well all the apostles-they're sitting in swings saying "i'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings and some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era" amazing. simply amazing. | |
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camilo Average |
#4 by camilo velasquez at Aug 27, 1981 at 11:38 AM EST |
| i may be wrong, i never try and figure out the meaning behind the song but im thinking that this song is about people being fake and greedy to to fit into a certain image that is popular at the time.. i think that the line about the apostles ("i'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings and some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era") is about how people are greedy and would do anything just to fit in with what is popular at the time. the businessers selling their trash may represent how people act like they are your friend or something, but just pawn you off like trash to others. the line about the angels, to me, is a line about how people these days care about their image and ditch people that may become a burden to them on their way to success. "all the people you knew were the actors all the people you knew were the actors" these lyrics, to me, just speaks of people being fake again, actors are told what to do, play roles of people that arent them to please others. i dont really understand the part about college. im guessing that it is about again how people use certain things to get themselves noticed... im not sure.. the end lyrics, "i came clean with myself i come clean out of love with my lover i still love her loved her more when she used to be sober and i was kinder" they dont really make sense to me... im a little confused about it, but if i had to try and guess what it meant, i would say that it is about how he lost his girlfriend whom he still loves and he confronted her with something.. again, i never really try and interpret meanings behind songs. anyway, post what you think about that... later. | |
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Berenice Average |
#5 by Berenice Issaris at Nov 11, 1985 at 6:45 PM EST |
| yeah... kind of two meanings... of course they're connected like everything I mean at first he's talking about the whole capitalist thing and then at the end how love is pointless... | |
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Sam Average |
#6 by Sam at Dec 22, 1985 at 4:10 PM EST |
| I like when someone (blurppi) offers a great explanation, and then someone else (are you in) offers a terrible one despite what they should have just read. Long story short, we're material beings. We're fundamentally greedy and essentially selfish. The rest is assumed, in lieu of the aforementioned. ultimately, I think the song is about the entropy of human priority (devolving, as it were). All of us, even the educated and informed, are just products of the type of environment we've been weaned on. And it's just a facade based on our expectations and standards (life cumulative). Who needs it? It's all bullshit, and bullshit makes us unpleasant and angry, drives us to drown the anger with a bottle, etc. | |
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Lenny Judd (Pap Wanna Be |
#7 by Lenny Judd (Papa Smurf) at Feb 25, 1986 at 10:55 PM EST |
| I think the song is about human beings as a species acting in self interest no matter what. The apostles part is quite obvious, saying that, despite the morals of love and compassion that those historical figures stressed, they still want material things like the rest of us. The 'businessers' part expresses how this urge to buy and sell and get more money will never ever lead to satisfaction. It's an eternal hell, just make more money, make more money, but in the end 'you're sick of it all, and bankrupt on selling.' I'm not completely sure about the angels part, but I've always thought that it's saying that humans have corrupted the pure. At one time they cared about eachother, but now they want the same things that we do. The last two parts don't seem to fit in with the rest of the song, because I think it's more about the writer reflecting on himself through witnessing how corrupt the human condition really is. The 'college' part explains that he wants others to hear his opinions on them, but the only way is to improve himself by their standards, the standards that he hates. And, finally, the last part has something to do with compassion, it seems as if he's trying to leave this point of love for the stiff materalistic world, but in the end, he can't do it, and he might just be as blind as everyone else. | |
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Roman Rhythm Player |
#8 by Roman Malik at Dec 7, 1987 at 8:21 AM EST |
| "well, i'll go to college and i'll learn some big words and i'll talk real loud goddamn right i'll be heard you'll remember all the guys that said all those big words he must've learned in college" this is my favorite part of this song. the way he sings it is just incredible. by far my favorite modest mouse song. | |
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Lucas Average |
#9 by Lucas Lawrey at Jan 1, 1988 at 6:57 AM EST |
| whatever any modest mouse song is about, which i don't think anyone truely knows (sometimes i even doubt if isaac knows) it's "thinking music" every song on every album makes you think. either about the world. yourself. or just "what the hell is issac trying to say." this is probably the best song on the lonesome crowded west album. isaac brock totally rocks my world. | |
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brock Average |
#10 by brock someone at Feb 5, 1990 at 10:53 PM EST |
| i like how he calls this cd the lonesome crowded west, it totally sounds like deranged cowboy music. | |
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Mikel Average |
#11 by Mikel A. at Apr 4, 2004 at 10:08 PM EST |
| This song (to me) is about selling cocaine. "They sell all their trash to eachother" A lot of modest mouse songs are about cocaine and I am glad. I was a big ass cokehead and that how I got into modest mouse. Anyways... | |
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brad Rhythm Player |
#12 by brad music at Apr 25, 2004 at 9:54 PM EST |
| This is my favorite MM song right now...It's just so, gah, I don't even know. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. | |
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rikiscorner Average |
#13 by rikiscorner at Mar 31, 2005 at 9:34 PM EST |
| i think the last part...... "and it took a long time i came clean with myself i come clean out of love with my lover i still love her loved her more when she used to be sober and i was kinder".....means that he thought he was in love with a girl but realized she was just like everyone else. just as fake as everyone else. i think this whole song in general is about being fake and changing who you are just to fit the new fad or trend and just to fit in | |
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