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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Alkaline Trio
Balanced On A Shelf
Broken Wing
2013
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: B
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
G#m - 466444
E - 022100
B - x24442
F# - 244322
B/Eb - x698xx
A - x02220
C#/F - 143xxx
Eb/G - 365xxx
Intro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x3, F#--G#m--
Verse 1:
G#m
A somewhat inviting very
B E
different of kind of hell
G#m
To live without ever
F# E
looking at yourself
B/Eb
You see life is so
E
much simpler when it's
B F#
balanced on a shelf
A
Thats been unperfectly
F#
placed there in the sun
F#
now look at how
your'e admired by
Refrain 1:
E
everyone Who sees
G#m
you now they know
F#
your name. But is
E
it real? All your
G#m
bad habits have
F#
become your
E
life's appeal
Chorus:
B
And then it's where
E
did you go wrong where
did you go wrong?
When you're screaming
B
where did you go wrong
E
where did you go wrong?
G#m B E
Well first of all
F# G#m B E
and worst of all
F# G#m
you looked inside
B E
yourself didn't care
F# E C#/F
much for what you saw
F# Eb/G G#m
for what you saw
Post Chorus: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#--
Verse 2:
G#m
Can you imagine did
B E
you ever play with dolls?
G#m
You can protect your cotton
F# E
heartbeat on the skin
of porcelain walls
B/Eb
You keep staring to your
E
future through these
B F#
marble eyes they show
A
Everything I'm never
F#
ever gonna have
F#
That's a giant pill
But swallow if you-
Refrain 2:
E G#m
-can You'll start again
You'll change your
F# E
name and be reborn
G#m
and give in to them
F# E
all that has been torn
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x2, G#m(hold)
Balanced On A Shelf
Broken Wing
2013
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: B
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
G#m - 466444
E - 022100
B - x24442
F# - 244322
B/Eb - x698xx
A - x02220
C#/F - 143xxx
Eb/G - 365xxx
Intro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x3, F#--G#m--
Verse 1:
G#m
A somewhat inviting very
B E
different of kind of hell
G#m
To live without ever
F# E
looking at yourself
B/Eb
You see life is so
E
much simpler when it's
B F#
balanced on a shelf
A
Thats been unperfectly
F#
placed there in the sun
F#
now look at how
your'e admired by
Refrain 1:
E
everyone Who sees
G#m
you now they know
F#
your name. But is
E
it real? All your
G#m
bad habits have
F#
become your
E
life's appeal
Chorus:
B
And then it's where
E
did you go wrong where
did you go wrong?
When you're screaming
B
where did you go wrong
E
where did you go wrong?
G#m B E
Well first of all
F# G#m B E
and worst of all
F# G#m
you looked inside
B E
yourself didn't care
F# E C#/F
much for what you saw
F# Eb/G G#m
for what you saw
Post Chorus: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#--
Verse 2:
G#m
Can you imagine did
B E
you ever play with dolls?
G#m
You can protect your cotton
F# E
heartbeat on the skin
of porcelain walls
B/Eb
You keep staring to your
E
future through these
B F#
marble eyes they show
A
Everything I'm never
F#
ever gonna have
F#
That's a giant pill
But swallow if you-
Refrain 2:
E G#m
-can You'll start again
You'll change your
F# E
name and be reborn
G#m
and give in to them
F# E
all that has been torn
(Repeat Chorus)
Outro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x2, G#m(hold)
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