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ONE CHANCE - Modest Mouse
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Tabbed by:sean
Email:ilovedollface117@yahoo.com
Tuning:
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--4/5--0------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--4/5--0--5-5-5-55-4-4-44--2-2-2-22-22-4-22-------------------------------|
A|--2/3--0--5-5-5-55-5-5-55--3-3-3-33-33-3-33-2-2-2-2...--------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------3-3-3-3...--------------------|
there is probably more, but i stumbled across that while messing around one
day, and i am pretty sure it is right, sounds good to me.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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chris Average |
#1 by chris ovari at Jan 31, 1975 at 7:19 PM EST |
| Easily the best modest mouse song ever. Although it didn't go mainstream. I beleive it means that in the short time we have to live we have to try our best to get everything right. Because we only have 'One Chance' to get it right. I know I'm over-analyzing ;) | |
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cody Wanna Be |
#2 by cody westermier at May 12, 1977 at 4:56 PM EST |
| That open box in a cage thing makes me think that that line is talking about how most people are conformists and that makes them perfectly content with not thinking about things in ways, or just things, most people don't. Then the people who do are not accepted in normal society, when they know more about life and things with deep meanings. So Isaac thinks about these things, and it opens his eyes, making him an "open box in a cage" with the cage being society... ...Or maybe I think that because I hate society, and spend time thinking about life and ways to live better and to not conform to things i don't want to conform to. | |
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kenzie Professional Badass |
#3 by kenzie at Apr 3, 1986 at 12:34 PM EST |
| This song is awesome... but i just can't help that i love their older stuff sooo much more, it's so much crazier... I think this song is about you how you've got one life... you've got once chance basically to live and what not... and the "I've seen so many ships sail in, just to head back out again and go off sinking..." I think that's talking about how people are fragile, you can see someone walk in your house then they are like i'm leaving! and get in a car wreck and die, you know, and you never see them again... haha | |
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Joan Average |
#4 by Joan Rius at Sep 27, 1986 at 2:09 AM EST |
| THE DECLERATION OF THE HUNGER FOR REDEMPTION ONE CHANCE ~~ make the most of now.... because this is when EVERYTHING happens | |
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Zach Rhythm Player |
#5 by Zach at Nov 7, 1986 at 8:40 PM EST |
| This really is great song. The phrase 'I'm just a box in a cage' really stood out to me because of the tragic reality of such a feeling. A box in a cage. Think about it. Having the feeling of being trapped in your own distorted reality only to finally break free and discover that you're trapped in someone else's distorted reality. I mean literally think about it. Can you imagine being stuck inside of a box that you've been feverishly struggling to escape out of? Once you finally escape you dismally discover that you were inside of an inescapable cage all the while. The trick is to never allow yourself to get caught in the first place. Because, once you're stuck, that's it...Hence the 'One Chance'. But... that's just my take on it. | |
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edwin Wanna Be |
#6 by edwin henrriquez at Jun 23, 2005 at 7:31 AM EST |
| 'Unwittingly existentialist'? That is an interesting observation. But, wow, very true. Touche' pussycat. | |
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Pablo Rhythm Player |
#7 by Pablo Muņiz at Oct 7, 2005 at 12:44 AM EST |
| okay so this past halloween i dressed up as i box in a cage, and like NOBODY got it! just some 18 year old dressed as rainbow brite and some indeterminate ewoks. what gives? definitely not worth running into things every five minutes, i'll tell you that. however, i have to say that i believe you unwittingly existentialist interpreters are right on in your assessments. and that this is definitely a better song than the smashing pumpkins' "in spite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage" version from a few years back. great song, methinks. went on my best of 2004 mix for my fellow boxes in cages, aka friends. | |
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Ashley Rhythm Player |
#8 by Ashley 666 at Nov 10, 2005 at 4:22 AM EST |
| Leave it to Modest Mouse to sing a song about the finality of death and make us go "Cool!". What I like about the song most is the urgency he sings the "I'm just a box in a cage" part. One actually gets the feeling that the singer is/has actually experienced the emotion he's singing about! How novel! Well I think the "box" is his brain, and his body the "cage" and laments the limitations of those components. Another take is that the "box" could be his "friends + habits" that mean so much to him and surround him like a box which is is happy place, but it's caged in the reality of the fleetingness of life, which kinda makes his box feel a little small and sad... Great tune / album. | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#9 by Justin Neafsey at Jul 15, 2006 at 9:02 AM EST |
| We definitely only have one chance in life and Isaac definitely seems upset to see many of his friends die (ships sailing off and sinking). And he shows the sad state of our lives, where we're just trapped (our bodies are the box and the world is the cage). | |
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