311 - Mindspin

      

 
 'Mindspin'
 Performed by 311
 From the album "Soundsystem" on Capricorn Records
 Music by: C. Sexton
 Lyrics by: N. Hexum & D. Martinez
 (c) 1999 Hydroponic Music BMI
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 Tabbed by: Michael Slusarz (slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu)
 Dennis Krause (dkrause@goplay.com)
 Daniel Gezovich (dgez@email.msn.com) 
 The 311 Guitar Archive -- http://bigworm.colorado.edu/311archive/
 
 * NOTE: On the album, this is played using a 7-string guitar.
 To play on 6-string guitar, tune guitar down 5 steps (i.e. low
 string tuned to B).
 
 Verse A:
 ========
 B5 E5 N.C. F#5
 1:--------------------------------
 2:--------------------------------
 3:--------------------------------
 4:--------------------------------
 5:-2-2-2-2--7-------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-
 6:-0-0-0-0--5--0-0--7-7-7-7-9-7-7-
 
 B5 E5 N.C. F#5 N.C.
 1:---------------------------------------
 2:---------------------------------------
 3:---------------------------------------
 4:---------------------------------------
 5:-2-2-2-2--7-------9-9-9-9--------------
 6:-0-0-0-0--5--0-0--7-7-7-7--9-12-9-12\\-
 
 Verse B:
 ========
 B5 E5 F#5 G#5
 1:---------------------------------
 2:---------------------------------
 3:---------------------------------
 4:---------------------------------
 5:-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-
 6:-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-
 
 Chorus:
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 N.C.
 1:-----------------------|----------
 2:-----------------------|----------
 3:-----------------------|----------
 4:-----------------------|----------
 5:-----------------------|----------
 6:-9--12b-9-7-5-5-5-5-7--|--9-7-9-7-
 | (x4) | 
 
 Bridge:
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 [Guitar 1 (w/flanger effect):]
 
 G# F# G5
 1:--9----9----7----7------
 2:--9----9----7----7------
 3:-10---10----8----8------
 4:-11---11----9----9---10-
 5:-11---11----9----9---10-
 6:--9----9----7----7----8-
 
 [Guitar 2:]
 
 N.C.
 1:--------------------------------------
 2:--------------------------------------
 3:--------------------------------------
 4:--------------------------------------
 5:-8h9p8h9p8----------8h9p8h9p8---------
 6:-----------9--4--9------------9--4--9-
 
 N.C.
 1:--------------------------------------
 2:--------------------------------------
 3:--------------------------------------
 4:--------------------------------------
 5:-6h8p6h8p6----------6h8p6h8p6---------
 6:-----------7--5--7------------7--5--7-
 Lyrics/Song Structure:
 ======================
 ---> Play Verse A over:
 SA:
 Are you missing us
 Maybe wanting to be kissing us
 If you must
 Then please don't be dismissing us
 When we're gone bailin on the bus
 Nick:
 Are we immersed in a sea of replicants
 Hard exteriors and fake gold fronts
 Losing yourself in the flavor of the month
 Gotta be a better reason to colonize a star
 Gotta be a better reason man's come so far
 ---> Play Verse B over:
 SA:
 Is that you in the mama-ocean-people-sea
 Nick:
 Is that you in this dream I see waving me 
 Both:
 Closer with one hand
 While the other shields your eyes as if surprised
 To see the universe begin
 ---> Play Chorus over:
 Being up on the mindspin
 Are you still glad that it has been
 Six years and seven months
 This is what you want don't front
 I'm feelin it right now
 In this, the gold hour
 Part clock and part man
 Reconciling my life span
 ---> Play Verse A over:
 SA:
 Keeping things whole
 We move out of the space where air flows
 When all of a sudden here we are and here we go
 Nick:
 The evolutionary mind turns twists backflips
 In space-time the continuum
 Real-life planetarium
 SA:
 It's a natural fact
 Time is speeding up
 There isn't much left
 Heart rate increasing
 Bustin' through your chest compressed
 Nick:
 Is your life in the physical
 But out of memory comes a vision
 Which is a miracle yeah that
 ---> Play Verse B over:
 SA:
 Normally we just can't see
 Nick:
 It's not natural or typical
 Of our same old thing
 Both:
 Livin' too fast
 Unable to grasp the past
 Or the future
 When at last we ripple
 After our big splash
 ---> Play Chorus over:
 Being up on the mindspin
 Are you still glad that it has been
 Six years and seven months
 This is what you want don't front
 I'm feelin it right now
 In this, the gold hour
 Part clock and part man
 Reconciling my life span
 ---> Play Bridge over:
 Nick:
 You remain and refrain
 From the pain of wasted time
 The last thing on my mind is
 Running high fuel supply
 Reason why
 We just don't quit
 Can you get with
 A melding of two minds
 What's the worst thing you could find
 A paper trail that prevails
 In demystification
 People want to believe in mysteries
 People want to believe in mysteries
 Is the truth so bad?
 Is the truth so bad?
 Is the truth so bad?
 Is the truth so bad?