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From pkact@erols.com Mon May 12 13:29:07 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:29:18 -0400
From: Andrew Fontaine 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: semi-charmed life by third eye blind

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Date: Thu, 28 April 21:51+0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Fontaine (pkact@erols.com)
Third Eye Blind

Title: "Semi-Charmed Life"
CD: Third Eye Blind
(Elektra)
Artist: Third Eye Blind
Transcription by: Andrew Fontaine 
(pkact@erols.com)

Okay, i figured this song out on my dad's acoustic, but
according to my brother this sounds about right anyway:

First of all, get the strumming method down. Listen to the song
on the CD and you'll get it.

The basic chord progression is G, D(with a Dsus4 thrown it at the
end of the strum), then a Cadd9:

G:	320033
D:	000232
Dsus4	000233
Cadd9	032033

Here are the lyrics I got from a Third Eye Website at 
http://www.slip.net~3eb/lyric.html#3

I'm packed and I'm holding, I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden 
and she lives for me, She says she lives for me, Ovation, She's got her own
motivation, 
she comes round and she goes down on me,
And I make her smile, It's like a drug for you, 
Do ever what you want to do, Coming over you, 
Keep on smiling, what we go through. One stop to the rhythm that divides
you, 
And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse,
 Chop another line like a coda with a curse, 
And I come on like a freak show takes the stage. 
We give them the games we play, she said, I want something else, 
To get me through this, Semi-charmed kind of life,
 I want something else, I'm not listening when you say, Good-bye. 
The sky it was gold, it was rose, I was taking sips of it through my nose, 
And I wish I could get back there, Some place back there,
 Smiling in the pictures you would take, 
Doing crystal myth, Will lift you up until you break,
 It won't stop, I won't come down, I keep stock, 
With a tick tock rhythm and a bump for the drop, 
And then I bumped up. I took the hit I was given, 
Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again. 
How do I get back there to, The place where I fell asleep inside you? 
How do I get myself back to, The place where you said,
 I want something else to get me through this, semi-charmed kind of life,
 I want something else, I'm not listening when you say, good-bye,
 I believe in the sand beneath my toes, The beach gives a feeling, An
earthy feeling,
 I believe in the faith that grows, And the four right chords can make me
cry,
 When I'm with you I feel like I could die. And that would be all right,
All right
 I want something else, To get me through this,
 Semi-charmed kind of life, I want something else,
 I'm not listening when you say, good-bye. 


This song is really cool- the first time i heard it, i loved it.  Third Eye
Blind is just one of the many bands playing at this year's HFStival at
RFK Stadium in Washington,  Hopefully i'll be there to see them...