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 I'm Only Here To Disappoint My Shame Is True 2013 Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used: C#m - x46654 A - x02220 E - 022100 B - x24442 F#m - 244222 G#m - 466444
Intro: C#m--A-- x4
Verse 1: C#m Well I'm hurting A For someone else C#m to feel this pain EAG#m Are you hurting too? F#mA I'm desperate C#m So desperate C#m But I won't get A my hopes up C#m I'll just get all E my ropes taught AG#m After all F#m I'm only here AC#m to disappoint
Chorus 1: A I am truly only BC#m here to disappoint A Like all good BG#mC#m dreams you wind up dead AB All those promises G#mC#m I never kept AB I laugh and you G#mC#m will cry again And again and again and again C#mAB These simple things G#mC#m I just can't say AB Remove the you G#mC#m from you and me AB I stand to bring G#mC#m you to your knees again and again and again
Post Chorus: C#m--A-- x4
Verse 2: C#m And I'm crying A For someone C#m to show me EA Real tears G#m I've tasted them F#mA I've wasted them C#m So many empty years C#m Now I'm dying A just to give you C#mEA A body I can give to G#mF#m Something I can be AC#m a part of forever
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge: F#mA Distorted is E my silhouette F#mA Tainted starved C#m and desperate F#m There's no easy A fix for this F#mA That I cannot control G#m I'm breaking B Apart at the soul
Chorus 2: C#mA Like all good BG#mC#m dreams you wind up dead AB All those promises G#mC#m I never kept AB I laugh and you G#mC#m will cry again And again and again and again C#mAB These simple things G#mC#m I just can't say AB Remove the you G#mC#m from you and me AB I stand to bring G#mC#m you to your knees again and again and again