SOUNDGARDEN - "searching with my good eye closed" Tablature

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:04:45 -0600
From: Keith Barron <ponies2@computek.net>
Subject: Searching With My Good Eye Closed - SOUNDGARDEN

Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Tuning - BADGBE

It took me an hour to figure this song out.

Intro: Repeat 8 times(fade in)
B||-------||-----------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7----7---7---7---7--0-5--o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0---0---0---0----0-0--o||
A||-------||-----------------------------||

Then play this along with riff 1:

B||-------||------------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7/-11----0-5-11\-7---0-5--o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0-----0-0-0---0---0-0--o||
A||-------||------------------------------||

Then play this riff with riff 1 too:

B||-------||-------------------------------------||
G||--0-5--||o--7--7--7--10-10-10-10-10-10-0-5---o||
D||--0-0--||o--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-0---o||
A||-------||-------------------------------------||

At "...and the devil says..." part go down the G string and then play the
[A] octave on the open string and 7th fret.

|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-2--2--|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0--|

Verse Riff 1:
D||----------------------------|----------------------------||
A||-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-5br--2-2-2-0-|-0h2-2-2-2-2-0-5br--2-2-2-0-||
B||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0-||

Chorus Riff: (to the sky...and down...)
Play 4 times
||--------------------||--------------------------|
||--------------------||----------------------3b--|
||o------------------o||------9-------------------|
||o-2/-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-o||-7/-9-9-------------------|
||--0h-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--||-5/-7-7-------------------|
||--0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||-------------3b-0---------|

|-------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------3b-|
|-------2-------4-------2-------------------------|
|-----2-----2-------2-------2---------------------|
|---0---------0-------0-------0-------------------|
|-5-----------------------------5br----3b-0-------|

2nd Verse Riff: (Gtr. 2) Play 8 times End on this 8th time
||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| -------5b--\---------
||o-1h2p1-1h2/4~~-2h4p2-4br~~--2h4p2~~--o|| -2h4p2---------------
||o-------------------------------------o|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------
||---------------------------------------|| ---------------------


Interlude
||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||o------------------------|----------------------------------o||
||o------------------------|----------------------------------o||
||---7h9-9--9-7h9p7-7-6-6--|-4h6p4--4--2--2---4h6p4--4--2--2---||
||-------------------------|-----------------------------------||

Play 4 times
||---------------------------------***--------||
||--------------------------------(5br)~~~~---||
||o-1h2p1-1h2/4~~-2h4p2-4br~~--2h4p2~~-------o||
||o------------------------------------------o||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||

*** Last time substitutute this note.

Bridge:(breakdown)
E||---0-5-7---7---7---7---7----||-0-5-7/-11-----0-5-11\-7-----||
B||---0-0-0-0---0---0---0---0--||-0-0-0---0-----0-0--0--0-----||
G||o--------------------------o||o---------------------------o||
D||o--------------------------o||o---------------------------o||
A||----------------------------||-----------------------------||
B||----------------------------||-----------------------------||

(But I'm on my way....on my way...)
||--0-5-7-7-7-7-7-10-10-10-10-10-10--||
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--||
||o---------------------------------o||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||

Then play the first bar in the chorus over and over again until the end with
a guitar soloing over it.


SEARCHING WITH MY GOOD EYE CLOSED

Painted blue across my eyes
And tie the linen on
And I'm on my way
Looking for the paradigm
So I can pass it off
Is it on my side

Is it to the sky
Looking to the sky and down
Searching for a ground
With my good eye closed

If I took you for a ride
Would you take it wrong
Or would you make it right
Looking for a pedestal
That I can put you on
And be on my way

Is it to the sky
Looking to the sky and down
Searching for a ground
With my good eye closed

Stop you're trying to bruise my mind
I can do it on my own
Stop you're trying to kill my time
It's been my death since I was born
I don't remember half the time
If I'm hiding or I'm lost
But I'm on my way