Searching With My Good Eye Closed

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:04:45 -0600

From: Keith Barron <ponies2@computek.net>

Subject: Searching With My Good Eye Closed - SOUNDGARDEN

Searching With My Good Eye Closed

Tuning - BADGBE

It took me an hour to figure this song out.

Intro: Repeat 8 times(fade in)

B||-------||-----------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7----7---7---7---7--0-5--o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0---0---0---0----0-0--o||
A||-------||-----------------------------||

Then play this along with riff 1:

B||-------||------------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7/-11----0-5-11\-7---0-5--o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0-----0-0-0---0---0-0--o||
A||-------||------------------------------||

Then play this riff with riff 1 too:

B||-------||-------------------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7--7--7--10-10-10-10-10-10-0-5---o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-0---o||
A||-------||-------------------------------------||

At "...and the devil says..." part go down the G string and then play the

[A] octave on the open string and 7th fret.

|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-2--2--|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0--|

Verse Riff 1:

D||----------------------------|----------------------------||
A||-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-5br--2-2-2-0-|-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-5br--2-2-2-0-||
B||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-||

Chorus Riff: (to the sky...and down...)

Play 4 times

||--------------------||--------------------------|
||--------------------||----------------------3b--|
||o------------------o||------9-------------------|
||o-2/-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-o||-7/-9-9-------------------|
||--0h-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--||-5/-7-7-------------------|
||--0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||-------------3b-0---------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------3b-|
|-------2-------4-------2-------------------------|
|-----2-----2-------2-------2---------------------|
|---0---------0-------0-------0-------------------|
|-5-----------------------------5br----3b-0-------|

2nd Verse Riff: (Gtr. 2) Play 8 times End on this 8th time

||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| -------5b--\---------
||o-1h2p1-1h2/4~~-2h4p2-4br~~--2h4p2~~--o|| -2h4p2---------------
||o-------------------------------------o|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------

Interlude

||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||o------------------------|----------------------------------o||
||o------------------------|----------------------------------o||
||---7h9-9--9-7h9p7-7-6-6--|-4h6p4--4--2--2---4h6p4--4--2--2---||
||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||

Play 4 times

||---------------------------------***--------||
||--------------------------------(5br)~~~~---||

||o-1h2p1-1h2/4~~-2h4p2-4br~~--2h4p2~~-------o||

||o------------------------------------------o||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||

*** Last time substitutute this note.

Bridge:(breakdown)

E||---0-5-7---7---7---7---7----||-0-5-7/-11-----0-5-11\-7-----||
B||---0-0-0-0---0---0---0---0--||-0-0-0---0-----0-0--0--0-----||
G||o--------------------------o||o---------------------------o||
D||o--------------------------o||o---------------------------o||
A||----------------------------||-----------------------------||
B||----------------------------||-----------------------------||

(But I'm on my way....on my way...)

||--0-5-7-7-7-7-7-10-10-10-10-10-10--||
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--||
||o---------------------------------o||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||

Then play the first bar in the chorus over and over again until the end with

a guitar soloing over it.

SEARCHING WITH MY GOOD EYE CLOSED

Painted blue across my eyes

And tie the linen on

And I'm on my way

Looking for the paradigm

So I can pass it off

Is it on my side

Is it to the sky

Looking to the sky and down

Searching for a ground

With my good eye closed

If I took you for a ride

Would you take it wrong

Or would you make it right

Looking for a pedestal

That I can put you on

And be on my way

Is it to the sky

Looking to the sky and down

Searching for a ground

With my good eye closed

Stop you're trying to bruise my mind

I can do it on my own

Stop you're trying to kill my time

It's been my death since I was born

I don't remember half the time

If I'm hiding or I'm lost

But I'm on my way