Transmitting Receiving chords by Modest Mouse

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:
C  Eb  Bb  F
C  Eb  Bb  F



🎸 Verse:
C
Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains
 Eb
Smartphones, doorbells, refrigerators, pencils, hens, paper, skin
Bb
Hair, watermelons, alligators, volcanos and super freighters
F

Dust on floors, grease in pores, the food you eat, opened doors
     C
From mountains to the shoes you bought, scissor lifts, toys, rocks
Eb
Grass, asps, planets, tin, magnets, rabbits, palms, dreams
   Bb
An ocean of our own air, quarks, stars, defibrillators
F
Blinds, struts, beaks, shocks, tornados, crockpots, kumquats
          C
(We are repeating) Baseballs, plants both big and small, oysters, muscles, mirrors, walls
             Eb
(We are transmitting) EKG, balloons, cocoons, macadamias, plankton blooms
          Bb
(We are receiving) Sulfur pools, rivers, icе, steam, patent leathеr, lice ​


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
F
Nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device)
         C
We are repeating (Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls)
            Eb
We are transmitting (Lights at 4 way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders)
         Bb
We are receiving (Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars)
      F
Well, nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth’s core)
         C
We are repeating (Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me)
                Eb
We've been transmitting (Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers)
             Bb
We've been receiving (Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes)
 F
(Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains)


🎸 Chorus:
    G
But some things aren’t visible
    F
But some things aren’t visible
     G
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls and tomorrow
     F
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls and tomorrow
   G
No some things aren’t visible
   F
No some things aren’t visible
G
Beams of light, breath and wind, yesterday and tomorrow
   F
No some things aren’t visible


🎸 Interlude:
C
Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device
   Eb
Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls
Bb
Lights at 4 way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
F
Nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars)
         C
We are repeating (Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth’s core)
         Eb
Always vibrating (Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me)
           Bb
We are transmitting (Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers)
F
Nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes)
         C
We are repeating (Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains)
            Eb
We are transmitting (EKG, balloons, cocoons, macadamias, plankton blooms)
         Bb
We are receiving (Sulfur pools, rivers, icе, steam, patent leathеr, lice)
F
Nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Vacuum cleaners, windows, lights, fans, scales, your smart device)
         C
We are repeating (Computers, clocks, drones, clones, trees and stalks, moles and trolls)
            Eb
We are transmitting (Lights at 4 way stops, spiders, mushrooms, atoms and their colliders)
         Bb
We are receiving (Salmon, pinecones, office dividers, mitochondria, caterpillars)
      F
Well, nothing in this world’s gonna petrify me (Packages left at the door, tin cans, the earth’s core)
         C
We are repeating (Mustard seeds, turtles, weeds, herds of elk, teeth, you, me)
                Eb
We've been transmitting (Flocks of birds, forest fires, crispy chicken, Bengal tigers)
             Eb
We’ve been receiving (Jewelry, lumps of coal, things gettin' pulled into black holes)
 F
(Horses, wagons, aeroplanes, cars, bathtubs into drains)


🎸 Chorus:
    G
But some things aren’t visible
    F
But some things aren’t visible
     G
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls and tomorrow
     F
Like yesterday, beams of light, cellphones calls and tomorrow
   G
No some things aren’t visible
   F
No some things aren’t visible
G
Beams of light, breath and wind, yesterday and tomorrow
   F
No some things aren’t visible


🎸 Outro:
C  Eb  Bb  F (repeat and fade)