'The Continuous Life'
Performed by 311
From the album
"Transistor" on Capricorn/Mercury Records
Music by: C. Sexton
Lyrics by: D. Martinez
(c) 1997 Hydroponic Music
BMI
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Tabbed by: Michael Slusarz
(slusarz@chromosome.colorado.edu)
Additions/Corrections by: Patrick Cefalu
(pcefalu@worldnet.att.net)
Fred Lidskog (swede@email.unc.edu)
The
311 Guitar Archive -- http://chromosome.colorado.edu/311archive/
**
This song is in Drop-D Tuning **
Intro/Riff 1:
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(B)
(F#)(G) (C) (B)
(F#)(G) G5
1:-----------------------------------------
2:-----------------------------------------
3:-8-----3---4----9-------8-----3---4----0-
4:-----------------------------------------
5:-9-----4---5----10------9-----5---5----5-
6:-----------------------------------------
Riff
2:
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G#5 Bb5 F#5
1:--------------------
2:--------------------
3:--------------------
4:-6--8-8///4--4--4-4-
5:-6--8-8///4--4--4-4-
6:-6--8-8///4--4--4-4-
Riff
3:
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G#5 F#5 E5
D#5
1:-----------------
2:-----------------
3:-----------------
4:-6-6---4---2---1-
5:-6-6---4---2---1-
6:-6-6---4---2---1-
Bridge:
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G#5 F#5 F5 N.C. F5 N.C. F5
N.C. F5 N.C.
1:--------------------------------------------------------------------
2:--------------------------------------------------------------------
3:--------------------------------------------------------------------
4:-6---4---3--3-1-------3--3-1-------3--3-1-------3--3-1------3-1-----
5:-6---4---3------3-1h3-3------3-1h3-3------3-1h3-3------3-2------3-2-
6:-6---4---3------------3------------3------------3-------------------
N.C.
F5 N.C. F5 N.C. F5 N.C.
1:---------------------------------------------------------
2:---------------------------------------------------------
3:---------------------------------------------------------
4:-3-1-------3--3-1-------3--3-1-------3--3-1---1-3---1----
5:-----3-1h3-3------3-1h3-3------3-1h3-3------3----------4-
6:-----------3------------3------------3-------------------
Ending:
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[Guitar
#1:]
G#5 Bb5 A5
1:--------------------
2:--------------------
3:--------------------
4:-(6)-6-6-6-6--------
5:-(6)-6-6-6-6--8--7--
6:-(6)-6-6-6-6--8--7--
Play
notes in () the first time only
[Guitar #2:]
D#7
C#7 Ab7
1:---------------------------
2:---------------------------
3:-6----4-----11-11-11-11-11-
4:-5----3-----10-10-10-10-10-
5:-6----4-----11-11-11-11-11-
6:---------------------------
Lyrics/Song
Structure:
======================
---> Play Intro (x2)
--->
Play Intro over:
When things are
outta whack and they might collapse
And at the end of the day you still can't relax
And physically you ache like a cavity
Feeling the bind of your mind and the rest
of your body
Listen to your heartbeat
flow and imagine
Become Jackson
Pollack, air brush Chinese Dragons
Or a sky blue conversion van or an electra
Buick of the mind full of luminous
matter
---> Play Riff 2 over:
And slowly all the pressure recedes and you stop to decay
Naturally think clearly ultimately through
your grace
Will give way to
traffic jams submachine guns in hand
City red-necks who think like the Omega man
Feelin' the extremes of the times we're
livin'
Stockpile Spaghetti-o's
and Cheerios
Trying to survive
that fallout shit
---> Play Riff 3 over:
It's not ambiguous, it be continuous
It's all about us, it's for real my
man
The continuous life there is
no end
Movin' through life,
movin' through death
It's not
ambiguous, it be continuous
It's
all about us, it's for real my man
The continuous life there is no end
Movin' through life, movin' through death
---> Play
Intro (x1)
---> Play Intro over:
My radio emits a signal form
A strange noise the kind of which I've never heard before
I scan the dial for more stations
But all I get is an eerie feeling
I'm not dreamin', this is the real
dealin'
---> Play Riff 2 over:
There's nothing like this trance, I'm caught in the daze
Cuz I'm finally out of my body
The blue lights ablaze, yeah I'm really
amazed
And feelin' so light
that's right
Lift off and I'm
into the sky
As if a hologram
were created to shift my conciousness
Changed again and I'm flung in the riff
I wanna be free, I wanna do right
I move through the portal to be
purified
---> Play Riff 3 over:
It's not ambiguous, it be continuous
It's all about us, it's for real my man
The continuous life there is no end
Movin' through life, movin' through
death
It's not ambiguous, it be
continuous
It's all about us,
it's for real my man
The
continuous life there is no end
Movin' through life, movin' through death
---> Play Bridge
--->
Play Ending over:
It's not
ambiguous, it be continuous
It's
all about us, it's for real my man
The continuous life there is no end
Movin' through life, movin' through death