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Motorcycle Drive By

Third Eye Blind
Tab
4.8(176)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro part:

C Fmaj7

E---------------------------------|-----0-------0-------0-------0------
B----1---1---1---1---1---1---1--1-|---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---1----
G------0-------0-------0-------0--|------------------------------------
D---------------------------------|-3-------3-------3-------3----------
A--3-------3-------3-------3------|------------------------------------
E---------------------------------|------------------------------------

Verse:

C |Summertime and the wind is blowing

| outside in lower

| C/G

------0-----0-----0-----0-----0------|-----0-----0----------0-----0----
----1-----1-----1-----1-----1--------|---1-----1------1---1-----1------
--0-----0-----0-----0------0------0--|-------0-----0---------0---------
-------------------------------------|------------------------------2--
--3----------------------------------|-----------------3---------------
-------------------------------------|-3-------------------------------

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

in this city, the sun is always in |

|

A7sus | G6

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

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

couch, when I came to visit | never

|

Fmaj7 | C

------O-----0---------O------O------|-----0-----0----------0------0-----
----1-----1-----1---1------1-----1--|---1-----1------1----1-----1-----1-
--------2----------------2-----2----|-------0-----------------0-----0---
--3-----------3---3-----------------|-------------3---------------------
------------------------------------|-3----------------3----------------
------------------------------------|-----------------------------------

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

Amaj7 | G6

------0-----0------------0------0-----|-----0------0----------0-----0---
---1------1------1----1-------1-----1-|---3------3-----3----3-----3----3
--------0-------------------0-----0---|--------0-----0----------0-----0-
--------------3-----------------------|---------------------------------
-0------------------0-----------------|---------------------------------
--------------------------------------|-3-----------------3-------------

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

Fmaj7 | C

------O-----0---------3------O------|-----0-----0-----------0-----0-----
----1-----1-----1---1------1-----1--|---1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-
--------2----------------2-----2----|-------0-----------------0-----0---
--3-----------3---3-----------------|-------------3---------------------
------------------------------------|-3-----------------3---------------
------------------------------------|-----------------------------------

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

Amaj7 | G6

-------0-----0------------0------0-----|-----0------0---------0-----0---
----1------1------1----1-------1-----1-|---3------3-----3---3-----3----3
---------0-------------------0-----0---|--------0-----0---------0-----0-
---------------3-----------------------|--------------------------------
--0------------------0-----------------|--------------------------------
---------------------------------------|-3-----------------3------------

I've, never been so alive.

Fmaj7

------O-----0-------0--------
----1-----1-----1---1--------
--------2-----------2--------
--3-----------3-----3--------

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Then...

Lead guitar as the rythym guitar plays the chords

C

E----8--8-8--8-8---8-8-8-8/10\8----|
B----8--6-8--6-8---6-8p6-8/10\8----|
G----------------------------------|
D----------------------------------|
A----------------------------------|
E----------------------------------|

F

|----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)

C

Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by,

A7sus G6

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

Fmaj7 C

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

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

Amaj7 G6sus

Careening through the universe, Your axis on a tilt,

Fmaj7

you're guiltless and free,

C

I hope you take a piece of me with you,

Amaj7

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

G6sus Fmaj7

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

C A7sus

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

G6 Fmaj7

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

C/G* (distorted strumming)

I've never been so alive,

(strum) Amaj7 G6sus F

Amaj7 F

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

C/G

yeah, yeah, yeah...

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

Amaj7

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

G6sus

Someone would see through that.

C/G Amaj7

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

G6sus F

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

C/G Amaj7

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

G6sus F

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:

C

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

Amaj7

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

G6sus C

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

Amaj7

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

G6sus

Darkly coming to take me,

Fmaj7 G6sus Fmaj7

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

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