Motorcycle Drive Byv3

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From: Angell Tsang [a-cute-angle@mailexcite.com]

Sent: Monday, December 22, 1997 10:01 PM

Song: Motorcycle Drive By

Artist: Third Eye Blind

Album: Third Eye Blind on Elektra records

Lyrics and music: Stephen Jenkins

Tabbed by: Angell Tsang "a-cute-angle@mailexcite.com"

I tabbed this as accurately as I could. It's an awesome song,

especially when it kicks into the distortion. I love the drums

in this song too. I think they should release this one as their

next single. There's no real verse/chorus in the song, and I

couldn't decide what was, so I'll leave it to you to decide...

Acoustic guitar in the beginning...

Chords used:

Intro part:

Verse:

C |Summertime and the wind is blowing

| outside in lower

| C/G

Chelsea and I don't know what I'm doing |my eyes,it crashes through the

in this city, the sun is always in |

|

windows, and I'm sleeping on the |you, thats when I knew,that I could

couch, when I came to visit | never

|

------O-----0---------O------O------|-----0-----0----------0------0-----

have you, I knew that before|you did, still I'm the one who's

stupid. And there's this|burning, like there's

------O-----0---------3------O------|-----0-----0-----------0-----0-----

always been I've|never been so alone, and

I've, never been so alive.

------O-----0-------0--------

Then...

Lead guitar as the rythym guitar plays the chords

E----8--8-8--8-8---8-8-8-8/10\8----|

B----8--6-8--6-8---6-8p6-8/10\8----|

|----8--8-8--8-8---8-8-8-8/10\8----|

|----8--6-8--6-8---6-8p6-8/10\8----|

(keep fingerpicking using the same fingerings as above.

Lead Guitar improvs)

Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by,

The cigarette ash flies in your eyes, And you don't mind, you smile,

And say the world, it doesn't fit with you.

I don't believe you, You are so serene.

Careening through the universe, Your axis on a tilt,

you're guiltless and free,

I hope you take a piece of me with you,

And there's things I would like to do, that you don't believe in,

I would like to build something, but you never see it happen,

And there's this burning, Like there's always been,

I've never been so alone, And I've,

C/G* (distorted strumming)

I've never been so alive,

(strum) Amaj7 G6sus F

and there's this burnin', uh huh, there is this burning,

yeah, yeah, yeah...

Where's the soul. I want to know, New York City is evil.

The surface is everything, but I could never do that,

Someone would see through that.

And this is the last time, We'll be friends again.

and I'll get over you, you'll wonder, Who I am.

And there's this burning, just like there's always been,

I've never been so alone, alone, And I've, and I've, I've never been so

C (back to picking the intro) Fmaj7

alive.......................so alive.

Outro:

I go home to the coast. It starts to rain,

I paddle out, On the water, Alone, Taste the salt and taste the pain.

I'm not thinking of you again, Summer dies and swells rise,

The sun goes down in my eyes, See this rolling wave,

Darkly coming to take me,

Home, And I've never been so alone, And I've never been so alive.