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Third Eye Blind – The Background
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Everything is quiet / Since you're not around / And I live in the numbness now / In the background / I do the things we did before / I walk Haight
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Third Eye Blind – Wounded
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A song about frontman Stephan Jenkin’s friend who was sexually assaulted.
“Wounded” acts as a prequel to their song “The Background” which was released on their prior debut album
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Third Eye Blind – Jumper
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This song clearly does deal with preventing suicide, but that isn’t its only goal. It attempts to send out the message that everyone has something they’re not proud of, including
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Third Eye Blind – God of Wine
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Every thought that I repent / There's another chip you haven't spent / And you're cashing them all in / Where do we begin to get clean again / Can we
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Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
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Behind the catchy, upbeat “Semi-Charmed” melody that entranced many a tween when it was released in 1997 is a dark tale of a relationship’s descent into crystal meth addiction.
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Third Eye Blind – Graduate
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[Intro: Stephan Jenkins] / Knock it all down! / Will the song live on long after we do? / Will the song live on? / Can I graduate? / [Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Can I look at
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Third Eye Blind – Rites of Passage
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[Verse 1] / Break ups, blowjobs, and black eyes / Basements and goodbyes now / And you're all freaked out / Trying to find out what your life's about / In your soul, there's a
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Third Eye Blind – I Want You
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / The suckers lose themselves / In the games they learn to play / Children love to sing but / Then their voices slowly fade away / People always take a
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Third Eye Blind – Who Am I
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[Refrain] / Who am I to you? / Who am I to you? / [Verse 1] / Well the signs tell me it is time to go / And the signs tell me in stereo / That you and I, we are wasted / Cohabiting
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Third Eye Blind – Slow Motion
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“Slow Motion” was written as a blast against Hollywood’s media promoting drugs and idolizing violence and crime.
Slow Motion appeared on the album Blue as “Slow Motion (
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Third Eye Blind – Narcolepsy
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[Intro: Stephan Jenkins] / I'm on a train / But there's no one at the helm / And there's a demon in my brain / Who starts to overwhelm whelm whelm whelm whelm / [Verse 1: Stephan
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Third Eye Blind – How's It Going to Be
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A classic song about burnout from a current relationship, and not caring about the subsequent fallout.
“How’s It Going To Be” was released as the third single from Third Eye Blind
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Third Eye Blind – Burning Man
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / The rise and fall of my sloppy love / The smatterings, and splatterings / They'll get you / I'm not the one you were thinking of / Maybe you thought I'
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Third Eye Blind – Blinded (When I See You)
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Just an old friend coming over / Now to visit you and / That's what I've become / I let myself in / Though I know I'm not supposed to but / I never
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Knowledge Drop: Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life” Is Actually About Crystal Meth
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The ’90s classic sounds innocent, but has explicit references to sex and drugs.
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Third Eye Blind – Dopamine
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[Verse 1] / I aspire to you rockabilly heart / All animals and engine / But I always fake the part / My side of the bed / I want push of the ledge / Cause I can't get you to feel
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Third Eye Blind – Never Let You Go
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / There's every good reason / For letting you go / She's sneaky and smoked out / And it's starting to show / [Pre-Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] / I'll never
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Third Eye Blind – Away
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[Verse 1] / Well I take it all back, this belovedness / And I won't kneel down to confess / But I'm in lack of awe from this tenderness / Still concealed even though I undress you
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Third Eye Blind – Heroin (Demo)
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This early demo is a cover of the 1967 experimental rock song “Heroin” by The Velvet Underground. Stephan Jenkins abridges Lou Reed’s original lyrics while Kevin Cadogan borrows
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Third Eye Blind – Eye Conqueror
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I am the conqueror / I taste your scent in the wind / Set my sail but then you sink my boat / So I begin to swim / Woo / Bash my foes until I win now / Lances smash across my chest
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Third Eye Blind – Alright Caroline
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Tell the truth, woman, just this time / I know you can do it / Your baby's eyes look just like mine / We can both see through it / Tell the truth
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Third Eye Blind – London
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Through the satellites, I fight with you / That local brew is spilling / I know just how you spend your time / I want to get my hands on him / Somebody
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Third Eye Blind – Motorcycle Drive By
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / Summer time and the wind is blowing outside / In lower Chelsea and I don't know / What I'm doing in this city / The sun is always in my eyes / It
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Third Eye Blind – Exiles
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The studio's red light on a smoke-filled screen / Trying to find the sound, I can't say what I mean / Are we breaking up the band, the naturals at dark arts / I think you like the
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Third Eye Blind – Sorry
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Sorry to the people that I'm about to lie to / Sorry all the times I never really tried to / Sorry that I broke into a 7-Eleven / With a plastic gun I broke into your liquor store
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Third Eye Blind – Mine (Beyoncé cover)
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This is a cover of “Mine” by Beyonce ft. Drake. Was released as the B-side (or “Bey-side”, as 3eb called it on their social media to “Dopamine”, the first single from the 2015
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Third Eye Blind – Standing Up For You
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[Verse 1] / Kicked out for that girlfriend's shouting / He's standing outside the club and / He's never gonna give this up, no he's / Never gonna give this up and / [Chorus] / (
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Third Eye Blind – Queen of Daydreams
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[Verse 1] / I never wanted to / Know someone as much / As I want you / Never wanted to break through / All of the secrets / Keeping me and you / From a better life / And a better
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Third Eye Blind – Thanks a Lot
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[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] / "It's all in your mind," she said / The darkness and the light / The clock, it bleeds for you / But you never got the timing right / I woke you up
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Third Eye Blind – Cop vs. Phone Girl
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Released shortly after the band made headlines for their charity fundraiser concert performed at the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland in July of 2016 to a crowd consisting
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Third Eye Blind – Kiss Good Night (Demo)
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[Intro: Stephan Jenkins] / Sunset eyes says goodbye / Dreams that I hang up on / Fills me there, paralyzed / I say that I won't become that now / It seems somehow / I don't
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Third Eye Blind – Stevie Ray Vaughan
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[Verse 1] / I never played blues 'til Stevie Ray Vaughan / I never felt you 'til you were gone / And all of our shadows grow taller than trees / And all of my good means nothing to
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Third Eye Blind – Losing a Whole Year
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“Losing a Whole Year” serves as the opener and fourth single of Third Eye Blind’s self-titled debut. Stephan Jenkins mulls over a break up “with a rich girl from Bernal Heights
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Third Eye Blind – All The Souls
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I've been hiding out / In a city landscape / I met a frontier girl / With a firm handshake / And she said, "Boy, don't let me down" / She said, "All the souls that came before
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