This song shows us exactly why we have to be vigilant and observant to those in our lives, the world we live in, and what people and the media are trying to tell us. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Kinda Life Lyrics. What they are flat-out trying to say is that drugs will mess you up! They are bad! Plain and simple! They alter your reality and change your perception of what is real, and what isn’t. You can hear the beat, hear the happy melody, see the vaguely paradise-esque kind of video, and be completely lost as to what they are trying to get across. With Kevin Cadogan, Bradley Hargreaves, Stephan Jenkins, Arion Salazar. This is another classic example of not examining what is going on with the whole song. Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life: Directed by Jamie Morgan. I know that I didn’t even realize that was the line until starting this blog last week, and this is a song I grew up hearing.Įven the video depicts a fairly happy and nonchalant kind of vibe. Many radio stations found the line “ Doing crystal meth will life you up until you break,” to be a bit too much for their audiences and have censored over that line. Semi-Charmed Life song from the album Third Eye Blind is released on Apr 1997. And we all were sort of into hip hop, and so it has a hip-hop flow over it.” Listen to Third Eye Blind Semi-Charmed Life MP3 song. You know, it’s sort of a bright, shiny drug. “When I wrote ‘Semi-Charmed Life,’ the guitar riff was intended to have this sort of bright duh-nuhnuh-nunt, this shiny thing, because that was a feeling of speed. When band member Stephen Jenkins was on the show Reverb, the band intentionally put an otherwise upbeat and cheerful song with the very dark, and very serious lyrics. She’s got her jaws now locked down in a smile Still it’s all that I want to do, just a little now Those days you were wearing that velvet dress When I’m with you I feel like I could die John Vanderslice On Third Eye Blind: Hearing Semi-Charmed Life Triggers Feeling Of Total Anguish By Aaron Sankin NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind performs at the 2nd annual Alliance For Veteran Support Initiative at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on Septemin New York City.
The place where I fell asleep inside you?Īnd the four right chords can make me cry I come on like a freak show takes the stage The proof is all here, right before your very eyes in the lyrics which you will find below.Īnd I speak to you like the chorus to the verseĬhop another line like a coda with a curse Little do most people know, if they are not paying attention to the lyrics, or have only heard the song on the radio, this song is all about the singer’s….wait for it….addiction to crystal meth! Yes, my friends. And I wont run for my life, Shes got her jaws just locked now in smile but nothing is all right, All right, I want something else, To get me through this, Semi-charmed kind of life, I want something else, Im not listening when you say, good-bye. It is one of the songs that Third Eye Blind is more well-known for and remains to be one of many people’s favorite songs by the band. A relatively upbeat and pop-y tune that was a hit in the ’90s. Helllllo! It has been awhile since I last posted anything, so here’s a new song for you to ponder over.