Out Of Gas Guitar Tab

		
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OUT OF GAS - Modest Mouse

Tabbed by: Truly Ninja
Email: trulyninja@hotmail.com

Tuning:EADGBe

The entire song:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------7-------7----------------------------------------------------------|
A|----8-8---8-7-7---7--5-5-5h7-5/3-3-3-0-0-----------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Lyrics:
Out of Gas
Out of road
Out of car I don't know how I'm gonna go and
I had a drink of the day
Opinions were like kittens
I was giving them away and
I had a drink of the day
I had a lot to say
and I said

You will come down soon too
You will come down too soon

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Harvey Rhythm Player	#1 by Harvey Puentes at Oct 3, 1971 at 2:34 AM EST
	I hate when people think every song is about drugs. But anyway, I feel this is about some guy who has hit rock bottom and has nowhere else to go, and everyone else that looks down upon him he states that they will "come down soon too".

No Picture Dan Lead Player	#2 by Dan archy at Aug 24, 1972 at 10:16 PM EST
	i dont know what his personal story is behind this song is but it seems to be designed to help someone who's down and out cope with it, whether their out of money with no place to go or coming down off hard drugs. by the way "opinions were like kittens i was giving them away": are you kidding me? that is the greatest fuckin lyric ever...

No Picture josh Average	#3 by josh meador at Feb 27, 1977 at 8:00 PM EST
	what a great song. I had a drink the other day, i had a lot to say

No Picture drw Average	#4 by drw drw at Oct 23, 1977 at 1:37 PM EST
	^ Agrees with PeaceLoveAkGun You will come down soon too. Note: The music in this song is a descending riff, which adds to the effect of 'coming down', as the riff ends during the chorus the drummer hits the cymbal, making a 'crash' effect, or hitting rock bottom, or being buried.

No Picture mike Rhythm Player	#5 by mike jordan at May 21, 1978 at 6:02 AM EST
	awesome song.

No Picture Nick Average	#6 by Nick Vanderstelt at Apr 13, 1981 at 1:06 AM EST
	this song plays in my head everytime im trashed, and i think opinions were like kittens i was givin em away

No Picture Joonas Wanna Be	#7 by Joonas Luukkainen at Feb 19, 1985 at 10:59 PM EST
	I agree with "eccentricity!" This song is about a guy who just doesn't have anywhere to go who was someone before. Maybe he was a businessman and life took a turn for the worse and now he is homeless getting drunk to forget it and instead gives people a piece of his mind and they discard him for being a bum. He tells them they will come down to his level soon. Because he was once at their level.

No Picture Average	#8 by vix at Apr 26, 1985 at 2:42 AM EST
	I agree that this song is about drugs, i think that it is about heroin because of the metaphore of road gas and car, (heroin is known as tar). out of gas out of road out of car i dont know how im going to go is saying that he has run out of the drug and he doesnt know how he will keep going he's had his "come down" then he warns others that they will "come down too soon." Its pretty clear to me.

No Picture Jeff Average	#9 by Jeff Berg at Mar 11, 1991 at 10:05 PM EST
	"You will come down soon too/You will come down too soon" That's what he told them. That's the important part to me, it seems. Yeah, he's drunk and in a bar. He's out of gas and going nowhere. He's completely fucked. That's what it seems like out of gas is, he's not doing well and he can't leave. And here, after he's hit bottom, he takes a drink, and all those assholes who think they're better than him, that's what he tells him. You will come down soon too.

No Picture Chris Rhythm Player	#10 by Chris Pray at May 12, 1992 at 8:33 AM EST
	I don't think he hints at all that drugs are the problem. The general mood of the record is that he's not really happy with his situation. Out of gas, road, car is just describing that state of not having much more to carry himself on, so he gets drunk to feel better. The kittens line is just the way drunk people are when they're intoxicated; 'inisghtful' but not really. The chorus is just 'it happened to me, getting bummed out and it'll happen to you, sooner than you know.' That's how I see it anyway.

No Picture Andrew Wanna Be	#11 by Andrew Long at Dec 28, 1993 at 4:08 PM EST
	I always get the "You will come down too soon" part stuck in my head when I'm high, then later on I think about it again it's so fucking true.

No Picture SLIPKNOT FUCING Rhythm Player	#12 by SLIPKNOT FUCING RULES!!!! v at Sep 29, 1994 at 10:59 AM EST
	this song is about how people don't like things when they're free...things only have value if you have to pay for them (kittens)

No Picture cody Average	#13 by cody champion at Nov 29, 1995 at 10:30 AM EST
	If you're poor and a lush like me, you can always relate to this song.

No Picture mike Rhythm Player	#14 by mike jordan at May 13, 1998 at 6:59 PM EST
	The lyrics of this song may be some of the most creative in all of Brock's writings. The first three lines are the most creative way I could think of to say that he is literally stuck in life, and has no where to go from there. Being out of gas, out of car, means even if he does obtain one, he still doesn't have the other to go anywhere. And in the event he can get those aspects figured out, he doesn't even have road to move on, and so he is still completely and utterly stuck. So where all roads in life end, in intoxication. he drunkenly is telling everyone around him that no matter how good it is at that moment, they are gonna fall back into the same position he is. And he is telling everyone, like one gives away kittens.... I dunno, that seems less insightful now that I've written it down.

No Picture Average	#15 by Riqu - at Mar 24, 2007 at 1:40 PM EST
	like so many other modest mouse songs, i think this is about methamphetamine use. this drug is very prominent in small towns, and trailer parks, which are the settings of many modest mouse songs. the refrain, "you will come down soon" is a clear reference to speed. when a person is high on speed, they reach a point after a day or so (depending on how much speed they used, and in what way) where they "come down". they feel tired and extremely irritable. "out of gas, out of car, out of road" could refer to the helplessness of the drug addict lifestyle, how redundant and pointless it is, how many people want to leave it and can't because they are addicted.