The Lonesome Crowded West Tabs:
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There are two riffs to be repeated throughout the song. Riff #1 is the main riff, and Riff#2
is played during the chorus. If you listen to it, you’ll find it.
RIFF#1
G|-------------------2---------|
D|---------2-2-2-2-4----2-2/4-2|
E|-4-4-4-4---------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
OR
G|-------------------2---------|
D|---------2-2-2-2-4----4-2/4-2|
E|-4-4-4-4---------------------|
A|-----------------------------|
The top one is correct, but the bottom one sounds cool. It’s your choice, but the song
is played as the top one I believe.
RIFF #2
G|-----------------------------|
D|---------72-2-----2-2-2-2---|
E|-4-4-4-4-------0-0-----------|
A|-----------------------------|
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Ryan Wanna Be |
#1 by Ryan . at Oct 26, 2005 at 2:11 PM EST |
| I take what I said about liking my town being more modern. Change sucks. Change sucks. Somehow I dont think this songs about change anymore anyways. I agree with the whole drug idea now. | |
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Nicky Rhythm Player |
#2 by Nicky Ramone at Dec 22, 2005 at 11:10 AM EST |
| for some reason i get the impression that SOMEBODYs dealin drugs in the back of a parking lot but im an idiot not really hahahahahahah right..................... | |
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robert Average |
#3 by robert liedberg at Jan 28, 2006 at 3:10 AM EST |
| I'm not sure if it's about crack, modest mouse was never really a band for crack. I heard it got frozen to Isaac's teeth. I'm sort of liking how my town is going from nothing into a mod shopping town. I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't like this change. But apparently modest mouse isn't real big on this...hence the song. | |
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Killer Wanna Be |
#4 by Killer at Mar 19, 2006 at 9:33 PM EST |
| This song is obviously not about migration, at least in the conventional sense. It's about a blacktop world, and our viral chains of traffic bleeding out onto the highways that are crowding out the life that once occupied our land like. Our vehicular lifestyle is like a disease spreading through the veins and overpowering the white blood cells. It's more than evident, through other lyrical examples (cowboy dan, for one), that Modest Mouse is opposed to development and sprawl. This song is just an ironic take on the concrete jungle we're creating here in our "Modern World". As the parking lots grow larger and spew the traffic out onto roadways in some circuitous attempt to move human cargo, our hearts constrict and become smaller, and our minds absorb less life and more automation (no pun intended). | |
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Atreyufan4ever Average |
#5 by Atreyufan4ever at May 22, 2006 at 8:31 PM EST |
| this song is about planning ahead | |
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clair Average |
#6 by clair holman at Aug 25, 2006 at 7:38 AM EST |
| 'soon the chain reaction' chain reaction as in drugs, when you buy weed, have you ever thought about how many people have touched it and how many people its gone through? 'highways and other cities' and where its driven around and it goes through different places 'sitting in the parking lot with nothing' waiting for the dealer with nothin to smoke while waiting 'dont you feel dirty' you feel dirty waiting in the lot cause other people are there to go shopping, but not you. maybe its just me but i thought this was pretty straight forward | |
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Alex Wanna Be |
#7 by Alex Williams at Sep 5, 2006 at 4:10 PM EST |
| all of your theories on this song are interesting, and obviously well thought-out, but before reading any of your responses, i had the same idea as mcscumbag. to me, "made to store and sell these rocks" was indeed about crack cocaine. "aren't you feeling real dirty, sitting in your car with nothing" could relate to this drug dealing character, who has lost everything, intentionally or not, and repeats this process or traveling and selling cocaine. aside from the lyrics, the chorus is absolutely beautiful. isaac's delivery of the lyrics is breathtaking. | |
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dan Average |
#8 by dan binley at Sep 6, 2006 at 9:09 PM EST |
| i think this song is either about dealing speed in a parking lot or isaac's disgust with suburbia and city-life as opposed to the freedom of rural areas. | |
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Cody Rhythm Player |
#9 by Cody Gibson at Oct 30, 2006 at 8:22 AM EST |
| white tide is right. this is a theme in tons of their songs. urban sprawl. isaac is from a small town that has started to be infringed upon by commercial companies and suburbanization. he makes it no secret that he hates it. | |
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wrath Average |
#10 by wrath child at Dec 5, 2006 at 5:21 PM EST |
| I don't think so, Anodyne, just because that's not one of Isaac Borck's main themes. Probebly 70% of his songs are about Urban sprawl and Suburban decay. The others -God, the Devil, ocassionally drugs... yeah thats about it. And I'm pretty sure this is about how we keep moving forward, but torwards nothing, just building nothing, just more arrogance and a fake sense of belonging. In 700 yrs, America's going to be NOTHING, but 50% Wal-Mart/50% Wal-Marts' parking lot. The reason the "convenient" parking spaces are in the back is a personal opion on Isaac's part. Its a clever metaphore saying that we need to get out (of the lot) quicker, or go back to the way it used to be, for instance, instead of constantly "building nothing out of something". It's kinda hard to explain, but you should get the point. | |
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Batmanuel Badass |
#11 by Batmanuel at Jan 11, 2007 at 6:10 AM EST |
| An anti-car and anti-sprawl song. "rocks" and "plastic rocks" refers to cars, as in "cities built to store and sell these rocks" in that we have built our modern cities around cars: parking lots, streets, traffic lights, car dealerships. Cars are just plastic rocks if you really think about it, and the idea of us being so obsessive about our little rocks is a little ridiculous. The whole "bleed out" concept is best demonstrated by watching the exit of a suburban shopping mall near a freeway: the cars bleed onto the road when the light changes, and then onto the freeway when the next light changes. The "bleeding" is a really good metaphor for the sort of cancer that cars and general vehicle over-reliance has become. The case can be made for this being about drug trafficking, but then what does "cities built to store and sell" have to do with drugs? No city was built on drugs (except maybe Nogales). Also, I don't see Modest Mouse making a completely ANTI-drug song, let alone following the gov't's current drug propaganda campaign about the negative indirect effects of drug use (the "My grammy died so you could get high" adverts). They do write a lot of drug songs, but they're usually about heroin or tweak. | |
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Tom Wanna Be |
#12 by Tom Giles at Jan 18, 2007 at 7:49 PM EST |
| I dunno why, but this song seems to me like trying to make a name for youself as a band. So many bands out there, touring, playing gigs, selling 'plastic rock' (albums) and putting your life aside for the road. Hence why the convenient parking is in the back. | |
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fasterdisco Average |
#13 by fasterdisco at Mar 26, 2007 at 12:49 AM EST |
| 'Well aren't you feeling real dirty Sitting in the parking lot' - dogging? | |
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