Biography:
Alexisonfire (pronounced 'Alexis-on-fire') is a band from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Their music is characterized by turbulent and explosive dynamics with intricate guitar melodies. Consisting of five friends, they formed in late 2001 as the result of a three-band break up.
The band’s name is inspired by a lactating contortionist stripper named Alexis Fire. This caused problems when she discovered that they were using her website name (alexisonfire.
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Alexisonfire
To A Friend
Crisis
2006
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: G
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Em - 022000
C - x32010
G - 320033
D - xx0232
Intro: C--D--
Verse 1:
Em
I'm thinking that
it's time to get out
Em G
My patients are fading fast
Em
The mind bruises just
a little bit easier
Em G
Dark times and shadows cast
Em D C
What are you suffering for?
Em D
Your pride or some
C
kind of personal war?
Em D C
And when you throw it away
Em D
For nothing more than
C
a simple taste
Chorus 1:
C D
I'll stay in time and
Em
watch you pass by
[paranoia woven deep
G C
beneath my skin]
D
I'll draw this line
Em D
and hope you'll take my side
(breath slow breath slow)
C D
you shouldn't have
Em
to fight alone
[you shouldn't have
G C
to fight at all]
D
its nobody's battle
Em G
but your own
Verse 2:
Em
panic holds me like a gun
C
firm and steadfast
bleak and cold
Em
I think its time
to kill the drama
C
This life style's getting old
Em
whispers behind closed doors
C
eyes spy from dark windows
Em
plotting minds that seek
C
to harm me or maybe not
I don't really know
Breakdown:
Em D
There is something
Em C
waiting for me
Em G C
in the darkest
Em
part of my imagination
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge:
Em
This is just
self-induced terror
there's more to come
G
this is just a glimpse
Em
I tell myself
it's all in my head
but I'm pretty
G
hard to convince
Em D
Oh there's no relief
Em D
Oh this world can offer
Em D
Oh there's no relief
Em D
Oh this world can offer-
Chorus 2: Silence
C D
-me I'll stay in time and
Em
watch you pass by
C D
I'll draw this line
Em
and hope you'll take my side
C D
you shouldn't have
Em
to fight alone
C D
its nobody's battle
Em C D(hold)
but your own
To A Friend
Crisis
2006
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: G
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Em - 022000
C - x32010
G - 320033
D - xx0232
Intro: C--D--
Verse 1:
Em
I'm thinking that
it's time to get out
Em G
My patients are fading fast
Em
The mind bruises just
a little bit easier
Em G
Dark times and shadows cast
Em D C
What are you suffering for?
Em D
Your pride or some
C
kind of personal war?
Em D C
And when you throw it away
Em D
For nothing more than
C
a simple taste
Chorus 1:
C D
I'll stay in time and
Em
watch you pass by
[paranoia woven deep
G C
beneath my skin]
D
I'll draw this line
Em D
and hope you'll take my side
(breath slow breath slow)
C D
you shouldn't have
Em
to fight alone
[you shouldn't have
G C
to fight at all]
D
its nobody's battle
Em G
but your own
Verse 2:
Em
panic holds me like a gun
C
firm and steadfast
bleak and cold
Em
I think its time
to kill the drama
C
This life style's getting old
Em
whispers behind closed doors
C
eyes spy from dark windows
Em
plotting minds that seek
C
to harm me or maybe not
I don't really know
Breakdown:
Em D
There is something
Em C
waiting for me
Em G C
in the darkest
Em
part of my imagination
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge:
Em
This is just
self-induced terror
there's more to come
G
this is just a glimpse
Em
I tell myself
it's all in my head
but I'm pretty
G
hard to convince
Em D
Oh there's no relief
Em D
Oh this world can offer
Em D
Oh there's no relief
Em D
Oh this world can offer-
Chorus 2: Silence
C D
-me I'll stay in time and
Em
watch you pass by
C D
I'll draw this line
Em
and hope you'll take my side
C D
you shouldn't have
Em
to fight alone
C D
its nobody's battle
Em C D(hold)
but your own
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