• Song:

    Tattoo Of The Sun

  • Artist:

    Third Eye Blind

  • Album:

    Semi-Charmed Life

Artist: 3eb
Title: Tattoo of the Sun
Album: S-CL Single
Transcribed by:Steven Bradley


Intro *recurs in different spots throughout the song*
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---------0---0---0h2----------2---2-2-0---------------------------------------|
-2--------------------0-------------------------------------------------------|
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                                      repeat

Verse/Intro Chords                     Wah Part for Intro *recurs throughout*
--3------3----------------------------|------------------|--------------------|
--3------3----------------------------|------------------|--------------------|
--0------2----------------------------|------------------|--------------------|
--2------0----------------------------|-----5------5-5h7-|---5-7----5h7-5-----|
--------------------------------------|-5-7---5-7--------|-5------5-----------|
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             <-- mute strum throughout

Bass Fill for
after "what the
caller brings
you.."
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--5h7 5h7 5h7-|--------------9--10--14--12-------------------------------------|
--------------|-2--3--7-10---9--10--14--10-------------------------------------|
--------------|-2--3--7-10---7--8---12-----------------------------------------|
--------------|-0--1--5--8-----------------------------------------------------|
                <----not right rhythm-------------not right rhythm-------------|

                Chords for section "What will you do when the feeling
     That you have is through?"

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     I believe everything you say
     Cuz your not frightened
     the way I've been so
     So I follow you
     Just in case you lose your way
     So glad you let me stay around

     The chain link fence you climbed
     To make forbidden lakes our own
     Your's and mine
     And with ease of the sea gulls
     We cut the engines and cruise high
     In the summer sky

     Now I could speak to everything
     But there's no room for my voice
     When sweet feed back is
     Jumping through the hoop of your ear
     Ring there goes the phone
     And then you're off again
     On what the caller brings you

     So I went and trashed myself at the bar
     Confused for nothing thinking you'd be there
     I'm so embarrassed cuz it's you
     Who comes to take care of me
     Shambling home again with you to lead
     And it's not the way I want to go

     And I'm mad at you and I'm mad at me
     Talking endlessly, not a kind word to say
     Till your amber beads of wisdom come
     And I want to write it down
     Just the way you said it
     So I could keep it always

     I can't forget the smell
     Of summer trees at midnight
     Bending backwards to please the wind
     You touch the tattoo of the sun
     On a warm belly that once carried a baby for a while
     Then let that crackled leather jacket round you fold
     Red face saints monogrammed in gold
     And in this beauty I would not go any further
     Cuz I suddenly remembered
     We can't live this way forever

     Idle daylight
     I've never caught you in a lie
     Not until now
     I feel somehow
     The passing of these days gone by
     What will you do when the feeling
     That you have is through
     I need to know
     Cuz I?ll never stop hanging on to you
     And it's times like this that I dread
     When there's everything to say
     And nothing left
     To be said
     And it makes me sad
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