Biography:
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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Other songs:
- Blue In The Face
- Burn
- Calling All Skeletons
- Da Da Da
- Dine, Dine My Darling
- Do You Wanna Know
- Draculina
- Eating Me Alive
- Every Thug Needs A Lady Live
- Fuck You Aurora
- I Was A Prayer
- If You Had A Bad Time
- Like The Angel
- Love Love Kiss Kiss
- Maybe I'll Catch Fire
- Mercy Me
- Radio
- Sadie
- 100 Stories
- All On Black
- Another Innocent Girl
- Armageddon
- As You Were
- Balanced On A Shelf
- Blackbird
- Bleeder
- Bloodied Up
- Blue Carolina
- Broken Wing
- Burned Is The House
- Clavicle
- Continental
- Cooking Wine
- Cop
- Crawl
- Cringe
- Dead And Broken
- Dead On The Floor
- Demon And Division
- Dethbed
- Dine Dine My Darling
- Donner Party All Night Long
- Emma
- Enjoy Your Day
- Every Thug Needs A Lady
- Every Thug Needs A Lady Live Acoustic
- Fall Victim
- Fatally Yours
- Fine
- Hell Yes
- Help Me
- I Found Away
- I Lied My Face Off
- I Pessimist
- I Remember A Rooftop
- I Wanna Be A Warhol
- If We Never Go Inside
- Im Dying Tomorrow
- Im Only Here To Disappoint
- In Vein
- In Your Wake
- Into The Night
- Is This Thing Cursed
- Jaked On Green Beers
- Kick Rocks
- Kiss You To Death
- Krystalline
- Lead Poisoning
- Little Help
- Live Young Die Fast
- Lost And Rendered
- Maybe Ill Catch Fire
- Message From Kathlene
- Midnight Blue
- Movin Right Along
- Mr Chainsaw
- My Friend Peter
- My Standard Break From Life
- Nose Over Tail
- Off The Map
- Old School Reasons
- Olde English 800
- One Hundred Stories
- One Last Dance
- Only Love
- Over And Out
- Piss And Vinegar
- Pocket Knife
- Poison
- Private Eye
- Queen Of Pain
- Rooftops
- Ruin It
- San Francisco
- Settle For Satin
- She Lied To The Fbi
- She Took Him To The Lake
- Snake Oil Tanker
- Song For Julie
- Sorry About That
- Stay
- Steamer Trunk
- Straight From The Jacket
- Stupid Kid
- Sun Burns
- Sweet Vampires
- Take Lots With Alcohol
- The American Scream
- The Temptation Of St Anthony
- The Torture Doctor
- This Addiction
- This Could Be Love
- Time To Waste
- Trucks And Trains
- Until Death Do Us Part
- Wake Up Exhausted
- Warbrain
- Wash Away
- Weve Had Enough
- While Youre Waiting
- Young Lover
- Your Neck
- Youre Dead
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Intro Listen to the original song for the rythm
Em D C
Em Bm C
First Verse:
Em D C
There's a lightning storm each and every night
Em Bm C
Crashing inside you like motorbikes
Em D C
We toss and turn sleep so loud
Em
Grind the teeth in our
Bm C Em
Our empty mouths are empty
Second Verse:
Em D C
There's a forest fire burning bright
Em Bm C
Spreading quickly towards our last rites
Em D C
Nowhere to run pointless to hide
Em Bm C
Just lay there and scream pretending to try
Em
Pretending...
Chorus:
C Em
Intending to burn pretending to fight it
D C Em
Everyone learns faster on fire
D C Em
Things took a turn lost all desire
D C D
You live and you burn
C Em
You live and you burn
Third Verse:
Em D C
This impending doom is left deep inside
Em Bm C
And it's haunting you each and every night
Em D C
Like starving wolves drowning sheep
Em Bm C
We close our eyes pretending to sleep
Em
Descending...
Chorus:
C Em
Intending to burn pretending to fight it
D C Em
Everyone learns faster on fire
D C Em
Things took a turn lost all desire
D C D
You live and you burn
C
You live and
Bridge:
Em7 G Cadd9
Like hell we are anxiously waiting
Em7 G Cadd9
Like hell burning silently strong
Em7 G Cadd9 D
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
Cadd9 D
And somehow this hell is home
Chorus:
C Em
As we burn pretending to fight it
D C Em
Everyone learns faster on fire
D C Em
Things took a turn lost all desire
D C D
You live and you burn
C
You live and
Bridge:
Em7 G Cadd9
Like hell we are anxiously waiting
Em7 G Cadd9
Like hell burning silently strong
Em7 G Cadd9 D
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
Cadd9 D
And somehow this hell is home
C D Em
Right now this hell is my home
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