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Artist    : Modest Mouse
Album     : We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Tab Author: Silentcrisis/Keneticshark24
Electric Guitar 1
Introduction
E  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
B  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
G  :-16-16-16-16-14-14-14-14-|-12-12-12-11~~~11-11-11--|
D  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
A  :-14-14-14-14-12-12-12-12-|-10-10-10-9~~~~9--9--9---|
E  :-------------------------|-------------------------|  (x2)
E  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
B  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
G  :-11-10-11-10-11-10-11-10-|-14-12-11-10~~~10-10-10--|
D  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
A  :-9--8--9--8--9--8--9--8--|-12-10-9--8~~~~8--8--8---|
E  :-------------------------|-------------------------|
The song mainly consists of power chords structured around the ones above.
Play around with the second part of the introduction; I'm not quite sure about it being
but it should be enough until someone else produces a better version sooner or later.

Invisible Intro Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Alexander Wanna Be	#1 by Alexander Taule at Sep 28, 2007 at 12:14 AM EST
	Saline Tea hmmm I am in a microbiology class and we are cloning a portion of our chromosome and to get the cells we needed from ourselves we had to swish saline in our mouths like mouthwash and then take the cheek cells out of the saline....Saline Tea I doubt it but possible

No Picture austin Rhythm Player	#2 by austin ballard at Sep 28, 2007 at 12:33 AM EST
	haha, you see icameasarat, ISAAC SAID THAT HE HAS TAKED ACID ALOT. dont get your panties all up in a bunch about some bull shit you dont know about. have you even READ the onion cellar interview? oviously not. why do you think you know everything? your like the guy who wrote that book about them but never met them or even talked to one of them.

No Picture terry Rhythm Player	#3 by terry terry watts at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:29 AM EST
	dont pick your nose when your driving your car :)

No Picture Zach Average	#4 by Zach at Sep 30, 2007 at 5:18 AM EST
	ModestMouseNirvana I read that interview and its so closeminded to simplify a songs meaning to drugs just because you cannot understand it. I myself am not quite sure of the whole meaning of this song but you probably cannot even say that you know for a fact Issac has ever taken acid. I know opinions are opinions its just I see that narrow minded viewpoint a lot on this sight.Drugs. P.S. In that Interview it mentioned Float On, March Into the Sea, and Missed the Boat

No Picture Gladis Wanna Be	#5 by Gladis McHumphry at Sep 30, 2007 at 10:57 PM EST
	Haha modestmousenirvana learn how to spell and use grammer ie taked acid alot and oviously. Anyways I didn't understand this song until I saw the correct lyrics and this whole album seems to be a theme around Death and in a lot of the songs technology and how it is a bad thing. Since I bought the album I saw whenever I hear that "strong cell phone arm" I think of that weird arm in the lyric art.

No Picture Ryan Average	#6 by Ryan Noffke at Oct 1, 2007 at 1:47 PM EST
	Run as far and long and far as you want to, you can't escape.

No Picture Bye! Average	#7 by Bye! at Oct 2, 2007 at 4:26 PM EST
	ICameAsaRat, I definitely agree with what you have said here.. Whether or not this song was influenced by drugs is a moot point. It's a magnificent song, nevertheless. But I do hate it when you have people praise it solely because of its assumed drug influence.. For instance, several of the songs put out by The Beatles are praised by certain fans simply because of that influence, and the fact that Lennon/McCartney were by far the greatest songwriting duo ever is lost. I see that a lot with Brock. He's one of the greatest songwriters of this generation, and his work should be praised for that, rather than just the possible drug references.

No Picture Phillip Wanna Be	#8 by Phillip Doucette at Oct 3, 2007 at 7:13 PM EST
	I don't understand how some people can follow a band so closely as to read all kinds of interviews and actually look into the lives of the band members. If it's solely to understand some of the lyrics, go for it, but no matter what, what is said here on songmeanings can only lead me into finding a meaning for MM songs. Music is what you want it to be.

No Picture Keith Average	#9 by Keith Amaral at Oct 6, 2007 at 10:19 PM EST
	I am pretty sure that Saline Tea is Isaac's play on the Ocean. "Well it is true that the moon can pull it back and forth away from me" is the tides. As you know, the gravity from the moon is what controlls the tides and pulls them in and out. ..and the poster above who brings up global warming or jsut environmental pollution in general seems to be pretty close to it atleast in my opinion.

No Picture devon Average	#10 by devon at Oct 7, 2007 at 3:55 AM EST
	I think "saline tea" is a sortof play on the word "salinity" which means the concentration of salt in water.

No Picture Trey Average	#11 by Trey smith at Oct 7, 2007 at 3:08 PM EST
	wwd is a concept album. notice the reoccuring theme of nautical refernces?

No Picture Chris Average	#12 by Chris H... at Oct 10, 2007 at 7:24 AM EST
	i think this song is talking about global warming. think about it. "No matter what stupid sort of mission you're on Well, you're not invisible inside your car" Cars are a factor in causing global warming, and when isaac is talking about being inviible he means not having an effect on anything. He is saying it doesn't matter what you are doing in your car you are still hurting the environment. "Well, we were never invisible but that I guess we could not see" We thought that they weren't harming the environment in what we were doing, but we are. We thought we were not affecting anything, or were invisible, but in truth we are and we could not see it. "We'll get crushed by the ocean But it will not get us wet" The ocean will rise up and destroy a lot of land all over the world because of global warming.

No Picture chris the pirat Lead Player	#13 by chris the pirate. arr at Oct 10, 2007 at 2:19 PM EST
	isaac said in an interview that he liked nautical themes because the ocean seems like reality away from itself. he said he would "never be able to go into space probably" and that the ocean was just as if not more amazing because there are no borders. what insight. that had to have been a revalation on an acid trip.

No Picture julian Average	#14 by julian at Oct 11, 2007 at 5:01 AM EST
	"We'll get crushed by the ocean but it will not get us wet" has been an uncontrollable montra for me all day. On the surface, its obvious meaning is that global warming's effect on the oceans will be catastrophic for the majority of the earth's human population (though the flooded cities' dead will get wet). Maybe it's a testament to our helplessness (the writer's ironic respect for the God he apparently doesn't believe in)? And for the "orphaned sea"...Man is apparently at the highest evolutionary point in earth's history. Though terrestrial, he's treated the sea worse than the land (trash, human waste, genocidal fishing[though the land's not exactly cared for]). Given the 10% of the time (1 time out of 10, everything is perfect for us all {Bukowski}) positive attitude of the writer, a reference to the 10% of our population that will survive in the event of every major catastrophy that likely will happen in the next century (natural distasters, famine, energy crises, loss of MAJOR cities due to global warming (New York, Los Angles, all of Florida (surprisingly given it's own song on this album), not even to mention Southeast Asia. They manage to non-pretentiously make songs about every major concern of humanity, should you subscribe to this interpretation. Maybe this is the real root of the drug culture's attachment to the writer's lyrics - they are saying things that we don't can't quite contemplate the full meaning of (Stars Are Projectors). If you've ever gotten too loaded on mushrooms (everytime I've even looked at a mushroom) you probably fully understand this.

No Picture Gabe Professional	#15 by Gabe Hawkins at Oct 11, 2007 at 12:00 PM EST
	i like how he refrences flies in a jar here. he always seems to tie one song into another.

No Picture Darren Wanna Be	#16 by Darren Pilton at Oct 13, 2007 at 1:28 AM EST
	"No matter what stupid sort of mission you're on" I heard consoling, not stupid... hmm... Just in my opinion, I felt that the beginning of Invisible had a bit of every song inside it. I could hear a bit of Dashboard, etc...

No Picture Ulti` Average	#17 by Ulti` 89 at Oct 13, 2007 at 10:59 PM EST
	If you want to deny a drug's influence in an artist's work, well, you'll still find some sort of meaning for yourself. That's much of the fun about good music. It's loaded with meaning and sometimes even meaning that is only a byproduct of meaning; however, considering that Isaac Brock "loves psychedelics," I have to say that if one has not had any such experience, one cannot claim to understand entirely the mind of the an artist who has. I agree totally with bferry420. I do find meaning in Stars Are Projectors that I could not have, say, a year ago. The same goes for this song.