'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 ([email protected])
Additions/Corrections by: Patrick Cefalu ([email protected])
                          Fred Lidskog ([email protected])
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:
=======
  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 ***
---> 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