Lirik dan Chord Lagu The View - Modest Mouse

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The View” adalah salah satu lagu yang dimiliki oleh grup band rock asal Amerika Serikat, Modest Mouse.

Lagu tersebut muncul di dalam album keempat mereka yang bertajuk Good News for People Who Love Bad News.

Album yang dirilis pada 2004 melalui Epic Records itu berhasil mendapatkan nominasi Grammy untuk kategori Best Alternative Music Album.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Trailer Trash - Modest Mouse

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The View” dari Modest Mouse:

[Verse 1]
Am         Em
Your gun went off
               F                                      G6
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you
Am            Em            F
My mouth runs on too

Am                Em
Shouts from both sides,
         F                                   G6
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Am           Em            F
Well now here's the clue

Am      Em
Life it rents us

        F                            G6
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you

        Am        Em         F
Well I hope mine did too

[Chorus]

C                             G6
As life gets longer, awful feels softer
            Em                          F
Well it feels pretty soft to me
            C                      G6
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
               Em                   F
then I feel pretty blissfully

[Verse 2]

Am          Em
Your gun went off
               F                                      G6
Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you
Am            Em           F
My mouth runs on too

Am                Em
Shouts from both sides,
         F                                   G6
"Well we've got the land but they've got the view!"
Am           Em             F
Well now here's the clue

Am Em              F          G6
           We are fiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed
Am Em                        F
           Right where we stand

Am     Em
Life it rents us
        F                            G6
And yeah I hope it put plenty on you
        Am       Em          F
Well I hope mine did too

Am Em              F          G6
           We are fiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed
Am Em                        F
           Right where we are

[Ulangi Chorus]

[Pre-Solo]

C                              G6                                           Em
For every invention made how much time did we save?
                                                       F
We're not much farther than we were in the cave

[Solo]

Am E G6 F  

[Breakdown]
Strum each of these chords once or twice.

      C                        G6
As life gets longer, awful feels softer, and it

Em                             F
feels pretty soft to me

           C                       G6
And if it takes shit to make bliss,

          Em                       F
Well I feel pretty blissfully

    C                                 G6
If life's not beautiful without the pain,

                   Em                                     F
Well I'd just rather never ever even see... beauty again

            C                          G6
Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer

          Em                           F
And it... feels pretty soft to me, oh hooo

[Pre-Chorus]

C                               G6                                        Em
For every good deed done there is a crime committed
            F
We are fixed
C                        G6                                               Em
For every step ahead we could have just been seated
             F
We are fixed

[Chorus Outro]

C                             G6
As life gets longer, awful feels softer
            Em                          F
Well it feels pretty soft to me
            C                      G6
And if it takes shit to make bliss,
               Em                    F
then I feel pretty blissfully
C                G6
     We are fixed
Em              F
     We are fixed
C                G6
     We are fixed
Em                         F
     Right where we... stand