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Song - The Cold Part
Band - Modest Mouse
Album - The Moon & Antarctica
Tabbed by - chiba
Great Song...Its really fun to play and its easy...If you got any questions or comments
please e-mail me at marsvolta69k@hotmail.com.
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d|----119--------9--------2--2/5--5--4-----
a|-------------9---------2----------------5--
E|-/7-------7---------0----------------------
This is played with very slight variations on the end.
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d|--7--5--4--5--4^----------4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4/7---
a|-----------------7--5--7-------------------------
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This is played with a few variations.
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g|--10h11p10--10h11--11--11/14--11--10----10h11p10--10h11--10--11--10h11p10--10h11--11/14--11--10--11---
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have fun.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Nick Average |
#1 by Nick Vanderstelt at Jan 14, 1972 at 5:39 PM EST |
| id go with either suicide or perhaps getting over a large depression and hoping for better things, that of which some modest mouse songs have, sadly, the only example i can think of right now is float on... but you get my point... great song, and i would play this on repeat if i commited suicide... | |
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Phillip Average |
#2 by Phillip Nguyen at Jan 17, 1975 at 1:53 AM EST |
| way back when man lived in ice caves and freezing weather. quite possibly he's talking about evolution and cavemen saying goodbye to the cold and migrating south. most likely not what Isaac meant, but that's what it means to me. That's the great thing about the mouse. how so many of his songs mean different things. kind of like reading a book and having your own vision of what's going on. | |
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!Ace Rhythm Player |
#3 by !Ace Youngs at Apr 16, 1976 at 11:16 PM EST |
| This song totally reminds me of the end of Another Brick in The Wall from Pink Floyd's the Wall. Remeber the part with the "Goodbye cruel world, I'm leaving you today. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye". Anyone else get that? I think this whole album is about the pain that making attachments in life gives you (I mean, making attachments to other people), but freedom from these attachments makes life meaningless. Don't really know..... | |
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John Lead Player |
#4 by John Fitch at Apr 1, 1977 at 9:27 PM EST |
| I'd kill myself to this song. /emo | |
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bethan Average |
#5 by bethan jones at Dec 11, 1977 at 5:42 AM EST |
| I see him saying goodbye to the world, but when I was listening to it I understood it another way. I didn't think he was saying "So long" as in "Goodbye," I thought he literally thought it was a long way down life to this cold sad part of the world. He was giving the point that it would be a lot of work getting out of this depressing area and possible a long time. Just my view. | |
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Jake Average |
#6 by Jake Bounds at Jun 11, 1983 at 10:21 PM EST |
| Yeah good idea, then modest mouse will be the target of a mass of litigations and negative media attention for prompting stupid kids to suicide that will probably ruin their popularity and possibly prevent them from releasing new material. At the very least they'll be known as "that suicide band". good fucking idea. | |
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ben Rhythm Player |
#7 by ben kurkul at Jul 8, 1988 at 12:57 AM EST |
| To me this song seems to be about global warning... I recently watched that Inconvenient Truth movie and they said Antarctica was going to melt in fifty years | |
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blake Average |
#8 by blake pratt at Nov 20, 1989 at 9:03 PM EST |
| this song is so sad and what NateKalbach said would be A good idea | |
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The Real Slim S Average |
#9 by The Real Slim Shady at Jun 15, 1991 at 8:19 PM EST |
| If I ever kill myself instead of leaving a suicide note I'll just put this song on repeat on my stereo. | |
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Chad Wanna Be |
#10 by Chad Barri at Feb 27, 1993 at 11:45 AM EST |
| I stepped down as president of antarctica. I love that line. this song is so good. its really sad but really good. I also think its about seattle. seattle sucks. its cold and almost always raining and its right by the ocean (salt soaked part of the world). | |
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Tye Musical Genius |
#11 by Tye williston at Aug 7, 1994 at 3:51 PM EST |
| or a poem, which is what music is, I like the quote, good song, veryyy sad. | |
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Alex Lead Player |
#12 by Alex Russo at Dec 29, 1994 at 6:17 PM EST |
| This song reminds me a lot of "Goodbye Cruel World" by Pink Floyd, and just how sad it is. | |
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austin Rhythm Player |
#13 by austin ballard at Jun 29, 1995 at 10:32 PM EST |
| whoa!!! He's simply referring to an old bitch of a girlfriend he had...hence "stepping down as president of antarctica" He's ending his reign on a cold cold women!! "so long to this cold cold part of the world" referring to this girl being very hard to deal with!! hehe probably not..but eh... | |
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logan Average |
#14 by logan cook at Apr 27, 1996 at 1:14 PM EST |
| "'The Cold Part' is the point of origin, the departure from a frigid physical surrounding and the hope for a change from all which fate has dwelt." I'd go with that.. except id have 'delt' instead of 'dwelt'. Bye bye body! Hello spirituality! :-) | |
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Beaver Average |
#15 by Beaver Butt at Apr 20, 2000 at 10:48 AM EST |
| "'The Cold Part' is the point of origin, the departure from a frigid physical surrounding and the hope for a change from all which fate has dwelt." From the Modest Mouse website. | |
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josh Rhythm Player |
#16 by josh groocock at Jan 10, 2001 at 8:39 AM EST |
| i want this song played at my funeral | |
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phil Wanna Be |
#17 by phil taylor at Feb 21, 2001 at 11:14 AM EST |
| This has got to be the loneliest, most depressing song I've ever heard. Modest Mouse has strong associations and ties with Seattle, and this song is placed right after "A Different City" on The Moon And Antarctica album. That song is about being alone and having no reason to leave the house and watching TV instead, possibly after college away from one's hometown. This song seems to be comparing what he knows of Seattle with Antarctica, the deadest, coldest and most remote place on earth, and wanting to leave it. The salty air and coldness seems to fit for a city like Seattle, a cool, foggy and rainy place, or for any place which we have memories of (we all have them). | |
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Devin Average |
#18 by Devin Moreno at Apr 8, 2001 at 2:05 PM EST |
| I believe hes leaving a part of life behind, and is sorry about it "i step down, as president, of antarctica, cnat blame me, dont blame me, dont" . but at the same time, he might also dislike where he's leaving from "so long to this cold, cold part of the world" | |
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ScumFucBondage Average |
#19 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at May 16, 2002 at 10:14 AM EST |
| thats such a funny this who voted him president of antartica and who will fill his shoes was he self appointed i dont know funny as hell for such a sad but great song | |
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Allen Average |
#20 by Allen Stone at Jun 11, 2003 at 3:58 PM EST |
| this song has always been really meaningful to me because i live in alaska. it has been really painful living there. And it sounds sort of cliched, but as my sister put it, growing up in alaska poisons your soul. there is just so much pain there from all the people that went during the goldrush, it's filled with greed and depression because it's so dark. alaska makes it hurt to smile. this song makes me look forward to moving away, so i can start new, i'll be saying so long to this cold, cold (sad) part of the world. | |
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JustiN Professional |
#21 by JustiN at Dec 14, 2003 at 3:24 AM EST |
| This is an awe-inspiring song. The discordance of the music and the repetitiveness of the lyrics were very evocative of suicide for me. I think that most of the song is pretty obvious, but the "So long to this salt soaked part of the world" quote to me brought forth images of barren wasteland that nothing will live or grow in because of the salt (or bad things) sown into the soil. Then the "I stepped down as president of Antarctica Can't blame me, don't blame me, don’t" line might mean that he wants to relinquish all control of his cold, meaningless life (hence the stepped down as president of antarctica part) and that no one can blame him for his suicide, because if they had been in his position, they would have done the same thing. I'm probably wrong about this, or reading too far into the lines, but thats just the way I see it.... Also, WarpWhistlee, I dont think that Nate meant it literally when he said that. Even if he did, you probably shouldnt have reacted to it the way you did... it was a bit of an overreaction. But then again, everyone has their own opinion, and I'm not one to judge anyone else's actions, because I'm anything but perfect. | |
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marvin Lead Player |
#22 by marvin at Mar 15, 2005 at 5:11 AM EST |
| Wow warp, freak out some more. Kurt Cobain quoted Neil Young in his suicide note, and nobody lashed out a Neil. Sure suicide is stupid and selfish, but if someone wants to do it, they are gonna do it however they please. BTW I love this song! | |
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lindsey Average |
#23 by lindsey Rogogo at Mar 19, 2006 at 7:07 PM EST |
| Brock sure does talk alot about coldness and antartica, any thoghts on that? | |
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Gladis Wanna Be |
#24 by Gladis McHumphry at Aug 21, 2006 at 1:17 AM EST |
| sometimes it's hard not to think that some of modest mouse's songs are not voiced out in some kind of innebriated state because they are so wet with wavvy and echoey layers of surrealism. I just eat it up and this song is no exception, I love it. It carries me away to some far away place, and not necesarilly a cold dark place like the title annotates, but just this pleasant and sombre-like chill corner of my conscious. It's like Sarah Maclachlan says, sometimes sad is comforting and nice. As for the meaning, well it is still soaked in isolation way down there in those cold lonely empty parts, as the whole album is, but hey atleist its a song of hope. He's saying so long to embark on a journey towards something that is possibly better. Right? | |
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Satan SAF! Rhythm Player |
#25 by Satan SAF! Lucifer at Jun 17, 2007 at 7:20 PM EST |
| I think that this song is about the West in general. Salt-soaked, cold and bone-bleached all describe the Great Basin very well. Modest Mouse has spent a lot of time touring the West, and this is just a reflection on Brock's feelings about the landscape and region. | |
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