311 - "Mindspin" Tablature

'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:
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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:
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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:
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---> 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?