• Song:

    Why Cant You Be

  • Artist:

    Third Eye Blind

Hey 3eb fans, here's one of the songs on their new EP (Red Star). Easy song to 
play and chords are basicly just repeating (Am, C, G, D).
Hope you guys enjoy it im pretty sure everythings right on.

Any corrections or concerns please leave a comment or just email me at
Dmitro.J@hotmail.com 

Below is the struming for one part of the song.
DONT BE AFRAID TO IMPROVISE AT SOME POINTS!!
*If you see a chord with a *...refer to the strumming below*
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________|
                                                           |
                                                           |
  G*                                                       |
e|------3--------3---|                                     |
B|----3--------3--(2)|                                     |
G|-----------0-------|X2  (Everytime a G* is written,      |
D|-------------------|     play the rif to the left twice) |
A|-------------------|                                     |
E|--3----------------|                                     |
                                                           |
   F*                 Am*                                  |
e|-----1------1-----|------0-----0------|                  |
B|---1------1---(1)-|----1-----1---(1)--|                  |
G|--------2---------|--------2----------|                  |
D|------------------|-------------------|                  |
A|------------------|--0----------------|                  |
E|-1----------------|-------------------|                  |
                                                           |
Also note that sometimes playing D/F# in place of D sounds |
better I dont know why...that's my personal opinion.       |
___________________________________________________________|
___________________________________________________________|

Am                       
 Are you frightened by the weight you possess or 
C
 Is this life just weightlessness
           G           
The smoggy twilight in LA
  D
I can't think of one real thing to say
           Am
And Robbie Williams is walking in the canyons
    C
For-gets that we were friends
           G                       (G)
I guess it all depends on your mood
G                           (G)
 Why can't these meds be any damn good

And she said


Am
 Why can't you be
        C
Like my waterpik shower massager
  G                  D/F# 
A sweet reliable machine
                        Am
And to tell the truth I don't feel less alone
           C                                       G
A water massagers is the purest love I've ever known

Am                C
 Why can't you be
                    G
Like when I was thirteen

Am
Why can't you be
        C
Like an art house foreign movie
          G
Frank and sexy, red balloons and ennui
D
 And allude to me

     Am              C
And why can't you be
                          G
A little more of a mystery
(G)
Why can't you be

Am
The part of me that's missing
           C    
Instead of leaving me for some other
           G
Said we're perfect for each other
  F                             Am          G
And I know we wont go spend our lives alone.

Am
 Why can't you be
        C
Like an outsourced government contract
      G                                  D
I'm a fat cat gettin' away with anything
                    Am
Kickin' some secret special powers
             C
Illumination rounds in showers
           G
Cause it's tearing your hair out
             D
While we can have a bed of flowers

(And I said)


Am
  Why can't you be
         C
Like the chicks out on the road
               G    
Some girls are happy just to see me
                Am
Because you got moxie and a broken nose
             C
And take him away from this close
            G
Sometimes a blowjobs not enough


Am
 Why can?t you play
C
  A little less rough

G
 Why can't you be
    Am
The part of me that's missing
           C
Instead of leaving me for some other
          G
Say we're perfect for each other
  F                             Am    G*
And I know we wont go spend our lives alone

    F*   Am*       G* 
Can we........just leave it be
           F*      Am*            G*
And we can live......our lives....separately
              F*          Am*
Could you for-get....what happens to you
G*
 You and me

           F*          Am*
When we're dead... and you'll be dead
           G*
We'll have eternity
                    F*      Am*     
And I will spend it all.....missing you
       G*
Seeing you with me
             F*       Am*         G*
So while I'm alive........I will always be


Am
 Why can't you be
          C
Lookin' a little deeper into me
     G
Like JD Salinger
         D
Why do I challenge her
                     Am
In all these surface ways

That you displease
    C    
Why can't you be
         G           Am
A little more at ease


(Am)
Why can't you be
       C
Like a hand rolled cigarette

I?m not joking
G                 D
 This masochistic self-pity of smoking
Am
 And this city ditty
  C                           G* (play G* riff once this time)
I keep provoking you to leave me


She said

Am
 Why can't you be
       C
Like a candle I can snuff

               G
You?re still a diamond in the rough
 
              D
And I swear to god I've had enough

Am        C                G (last chord end with easy downwards strum)
 How can I call your bluff? 

                          ~~~THE END~~~
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