Alkaline Trio are a punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Matt Skiba (guitar/vocals), Dan Andriano (bass/vocals), and Derek Grant (drums/backing vocals). Their music is characterized by dark lyrics, catchy hooks, fast tempos and recurring subjects of alcoholism, depression, shattered relationships, drugs and death.
The band formed in December of 1996, originally consisting of Skiba, Rob Doran (bass/vocals), and Glenn Porter (drums/vocals).
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Alkaline Trio Fall Victim Crimson 2005 Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: A
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used: F#m - 244222 A - x02220 D - xx0232 A/C# - x476xx E - 022100
Intro: A--A/C#-D--A--A/C#-D-E-
Verse 1: F#mA Not sure how this is D supposed to feel F#mA Cutting like a red hot D knife of surgical steel F#mA Brought flesh from D the autoclave F#m She came, she came A with sterile warning ED Screaming from her blade is in "I want to make you bleed."
Chorus 1: A I watched them fall in A/C#D line as I fell victim AF#m To double suicide D on your television A We heard our records A/C#D backwards too many times A I'm wasting my breath F#mDEF#mAD we're wasting our time F#mADA/C# Wasting our time
Verse 2: F#mA Down on my knees D but not to pray F#mA Hit so hard across the D skull it buckled my legs F#mA They told me I D had hell to pay F#m I came I came too A close to heaven E Had nothing to D say for myself I had to walk away
Chorus 2: A I watched them fall in A/C#D line as I fell victim AF#m To double suicide D on your television A We heard our records A/C#D backwards too many times A I'm wasting my breath F#mDEF#mAD we're wasting our time F#mAD Wasting our time F#mAD time F#mA wasting our time D wasting our time
Interlude: F#m-A-D--F#m-A-E--D-
Chorus 3: A I watched them fall in A/C#D line as I fell victim AF#m To double suicide D on your television A We heard our records A/C#D backwards too many times A I'm wasting my breath F#mDEF#mAD(hold) we're wasting our