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
While You're Waiting
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
D - xx0232
A - x02220
Bm - x24432
G - 320033
Em - 022000
D/F# - 2x023x
A/C# - x476xx
Intro: D A Em G D A Em G(hold)
Then
D A D/F# G x4
Verse 1:
D
There's a hope in
my head That's been
A
cut and bleed Dry
Em
as your bloodshot
G
eyes And there's
D
smoke in the air
A
And it's soon to
Em
clear Revealing our
G D/F#
demise There are
D
some who say That
A
it's a okay If it
Em
makes you feel all
G D
right It's just way
too bad Now you're
A
worse than sad All
Em G D/F#
locked up there in side
Interlude:
D A D/F# G x2
Verse 2:
D
I don't know
how you feel But
A
I'll make you a
deal If you'll
Em G
make it out alive
D
My shoulders and
A
ears Are all yours
my dear I Hope it
Em G D/F#
comes as no surprise
D
You've been known to
A
say That you're a okay
Em
When you're feeling
G
sick inside I just
D
want you to know
A
I got no place to go
Em G
Until the day you die
Chorus 1:
Bm
While you're waiting
A/C#
Be thankful for your
D G
fingers I'll be fading
With the colors of
Em
your pictures I'm not
crying wolf you whisper
D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
A D A D/F# G D A D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
D A D/F# G
D A D/F# G
Verse 3:
D
There's a hope in
my head That's been
A
cut and bleed Dry
Em
as your bloodshot
G
eyes And there's
D
smoke in the air
A
And it's soon to
Em
clear Revealing
G D/F#
our demise
D
You've been known to
A
say That you're a okay
Em
When you're feeling
G
sick inside I just
D
want you to know
A
I got no place to go
Em G
Until the day you die
Chorus 2:
Bm
While you're waiting
A/C#
Be thankful for your
D G
fingers I'll be fading
With the colors of
Em
your pictures I'm not
crying wolf you whisper
D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
A
I'm really dead this time
Bridge:
D A
They locked you up
D/F# G
They threw away the
D A
key Sutured your mouth
D/F#
shut Murdered your
G D A
family Right before
D/F# G
your eyes What could
D A
you do? Right before
D/F#
your eyes They took
G
it all from you
Chorus 3:
Bm
contemplating
A/C#
You hanging from
D G
your ceiling Can't
help hating You for
having that feeling
Em
I'm not joking when
I tell you I'd miss
D/F# G
you all the time
A
I already miss you
D A D/F# G x2
all the time
D A D/F#(hold) G(hold) D(hold) D(hold)
While You're Waiting
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: D
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
D - xx0232
A - x02220
Bm - x24432
G - 320033
Em - 022000
D/F# - 2x023x
A/C# - x476xx
Intro: D A Em G D A Em G(hold)
Then
D A D/F# G x4
Verse 1:
D
There's a hope in
my head That's been
A
cut and bleed Dry
Em
as your bloodshot
G
eyes And there's
D
smoke in the air
A
And it's soon to
Em
clear Revealing our
G D/F#
demise There are
D
some who say That
A
it's a okay If it
Em
makes you feel all
G D
right It's just way
too bad Now you're
A
worse than sad All
Em G D/F#
locked up there in side
Interlude:
D A D/F# G x2
Verse 2:
D
I don't know
how you feel But
A
I'll make you a
deal If you'll
Em G
make it out alive
D
My shoulders and
A
ears Are all yours
my dear I Hope it
Em G D/F#
comes as no surprise
D
You've been known to
A
say That you're a okay
Em
When you're feeling
G
sick inside I just
D
want you to know
A
I got no place to go
Em G
Until the day you die
Chorus 1:
Bm
While you're waiting
A/C#
Be thankful for your
D G
fingers I'll be fading
With the colors of
Em
your pictures I'm not
crying wolf you whisper
D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
A D A D/F# G D A D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
D A D/F# G
D A D/F# G
Verse 3:
D
There's a hope in
my head That's been
A
cut and bleed Dry
Em
as your bloodshot
G
eyes And there's
D
smoke in the air
A
And it's soon to
Em
clear Revealing
G D/F#
our demise
D
You've been known to
A
say That you're a okay
Em
When you're feeling
G
sick inside I just
D
want you to know
A
I got no place to go
Em G
Until the day you die
Chorus 2:
Bm
While you're waiting
A/C#
Be thankful for your
D G
fingers I'll be fading
With the colors of
Em
your pictures I'm not
crying wolf you whisper
D/F# G
I'm really dead this time
A
I'm really dead this time
Bridge:
D A
They locked you up
D/F# G
They threw away the
D A
key Sutured your mouth
D/F#
shut Murdered your
G D A
family Right before
D/F# G
your eyes What could
D A
you do? Right before
D/F#
your eyes They took
G
it all from you
Chorus 3:
Bm
contemplating
A/C#
You hanging from
D G
your ceiling Can't
help hating You for
having that feeling
Em
I'm not joking when
I tell you I'd miss
D/F# G
you all the time
A
I already miss you
D A D/F# G x2
all the time
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