Third Eye Blind – About To Break (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Chords

I believe this is tuned a half step down, but you can play it in standard tuning and it sounds fine. Simple tune, sounds good acoustic. Chords: G 320033 D xx0232 Am x02210 C x32010 Em 022000 [Intro Verse 1] (quiet)
       G                    D         Am 
I was walking along on the ocean,

          G               D           Am
I felt a fever burning up all I am,

          G                      D
'Cause if there's one thing that I can't stand,

      Am                  C        G
It's standing next to my fellow man.

        D         Am
Ah-ah-ah. Ah-ah-ah.

              Am      D
It's about to break.  Oh.
[Verse 2]
        G                    D                  Am
For the social worker at the needle exchange.

        G                      D                Am
For the self-medicated and the hard deranged.

        G               D                       Am
For the lesbians at the bakery,

        G              D                        Am
Saying, "Do you really hate me?"

              G       D Am
It's about to break.
[Chorus 1] (loud)
             G        D Am
Break like a fever.

              G       D Am
It's about to break.

             G        D Am
Break like a fever.
[Verse 3] (loud)
       Em                       D                 Am
People looking for themselves inside of mirrors.

    Em          D                                 Am
For not knowing why you're here.

    Em                        D                   Am
The public appearances on the verge of tears.

            Em                  D                 Am
When you're all played out from weed and beer.
[Bridge]
Am
Stand up let me get a look at you.

D
Can't we all take a wider view?
(x2) [Verse 4] (starts quiet, grows)
        G                 D                 Am
For the evangelist with a stinger-missile,

G            D                              Am
Weapons hot, thinking this will,

         G                D                 Am
We won't make them follow orders,

    G               D                       Am
For Doctors Without Borders.

(Am)
About to break.

              D
It's about to break.
[Chorus 2] (loud) (Break Like a fever.)
G               D                Am           C
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race. (Break like a fever)

G              D                  Am             C
You're beautiful it's true, I want to be beautiful like you. (Break like a fever)

G               D                Am           C
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race. (Break like a fever)

G              D                  Am             C
You're beautiful it's true, I want to be beautiful like you. (Break like a fever)

      G                       D               Am
For a teenage mother with the baby asleep, (Break like a fever)

    G             D                           Am
For Africa, where life is cheap.
[End] (quiet)
    G                          D              Am
For losing faith in who you're going with,

G             D                               Am
America fades into myth.
tabbed by Chris comments and corrections welcome! http://www.flickerfade.com http://www.mylifetally.com