I cannot listen to this song and not feel the sun.ħ. I think “Blinded” is one of Jenkins’ best examples of robust, colorful, beautiful lyrical poetry.
Does it feel new and fresh and spur the soul on to optimism? I think so. Someone that you’ve let go of but not really, or even a time or a place in your life that you still hang on to. “Time it passes and it tells us what we’re left with/We become the things we do/Me, I’m a fool spent from defiance yeah you got me but, I didn’t give up on you” (Blinded) – I’ll be damned if everyone doesn’t have a person that this applies to.
I LL NEVER LET YOU GO THIRD EYE BLIND FULL
“Where we used to laugh there’s a shouting match/ Sharp as a thumbnail scratch”- Jenkins’ lyrics are understated and packed full of sounds and feelings that we know in our guts.Ħ. “How’s it going to be/When you found out there was nothing/Between you and me/Cause I don’t care/ How’s it going to be?” (How’s it Going to Be) – Is there a better f*** you song in the universe without explicitly saying so? This one hits the bitter nail on the head so eloquently, with such heartbreak, who hasn’t felt the way Jenkins screams about in the middle of this song? It’s that awful crossroads of not caring at the end of a relationship and wanting to make the other person think about how it’s the end. This song is so much about setting off on your own, but realizing that you are at the helm that some people we wish were with us will never see the great things we will one day build.ĥ. Jenkins writes frequently about motorcycles, which is fitting because they’re a one person ride, usually. “I’ve never been so alone/And I’ve never been so alive” (Motorcycle Drive-By) – Are there things you’d like to do that the people you’re with don’t believe in? This song, these lyrics are the essence of estrangement from those you wish understood you and backed you up.
Who hasn’t carried someone around ‘in the background’? Jenkins just finds a way to say it that is both specific and soul-shattering.Ĥ. Jenkins’ lyrics become your own because you are forced to create your own meaning for Haight Street (in San Francisco, the band’s hometown) and by doing so, his lyrics become your own. It’s those weird, very specific place and memory references that Stephan Jenkins drops that let you know that you have both no idea what he’s talking about and a very close understanding of what he’s talking about. “And I’m hanging on your words / Like I always used to do / The words they use so lightly/ I only feel for you /I only know because I carry you around /In the background” (The Background) – I challenge you to find a more heartbreaking or deeply resonating song. It’s at once an ode to mortality and an echoing proclamation of desire. It’s the perfect example of Stephan Jenkins’ ability to say so many things that you, the listener, don’t understand, but somehow they connect to create a meaning that you have created for yourself. It’s so strange that it actually reminds me of the Doors. Haunting, a little spooky, it is nothing short of a snake-charming song. “You want to know how deeply my soul goes/ Deeper than bones, deeper than bones” (I Want You) – This ethereal ode to wanting someone feels like it was written in another dimension. Get more 90s or get more modern day Jim Morrison- you can’t.Ģ. Even if you can’t tell what the hell they’re saying. If you need proof of the poets here, check this song out.
It fits together so perfect and the words are so bright. But this one discernable lyric is like a constellation. “Be a dream in color even on a winter’s night/Thinking Georges Seurat, afternoon bathed in light/Get your joy no matter who says it’s right/Their cover’s blown, find the story of your own” (Camouflage) – At one point in an interview, Stephan Jenkins was quoted admitting that he actually doesn’t know what all the screaming lyrics in “Camouflage” are, which is pretty funny. Amazon / Third Eye Blind – Never Let You Goġ. For anyone who has ever felt a connection to their music, here are some of their greatest, most beautifully poetic lyrics. Stephan Jenkins graduated with a BA in English from UC Berkeley in 1987, and his lyrics are poetry to me. Granted, their latest tours have only consisted of two original members of the band, Stephan Jenkins and Brad Hargreaves, it doesn’t lessen my love for the music they created in the 90s/early 2000s. Have you ever looked at a work of art or heard a piece of music that made you say, “Hey, that’s ME, only outside of me”? If I had to pick one thing that represents me outside of myself, it would be Third Eye Blind’s lyrics. I get some weird looks when I say that Third Eye Blind is my favorite band of all time, but it’s the truth.
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