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
Queen Of Pain
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68886
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C# - x46664
G#m - 466444
F#/Bb - x143xx
C#/F - 143xxx
Intro:
Ebm--C#-B--F#/Bb-G#m--F#--B-- x2
Verse 1:
Ebm
There's a fire forming
C# B C#
not too far from here
Ebm
Along the east coast
C# B
maybe it resides in
F# C#/F Ebm
you my dear Worn
C#
out on our courtesy
B
we've made our curtain
C# Ebm
calls Like vampire
C#
bats deprived of blood
B
into the New York
F# C#/F Ebm C# B C# Ebm C# B C#
City that we crawl
Verse 2:
Ebm
And you've got a funny
C#
way of showing off your
B C# Ebm
bathoom surgery You said
C#
you were just cooling down
B F# C#/F
from plans of leaving me
Ebm
There's something I should
C# B
tell you for we may not
C# B C#
have much time I've
Ebm
never met arms
C# B
like yours
Chorus 1:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B C# Ebm C#/F
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
Post Chorus:
Ebm--C#-B--F#/Bb-G#m--F#--B--
Verse 3:
Ebm
There's a hard rain
C# B
falling flooding your
C# Ebm
attic it's clear Can't
C#
put out the fire that
B F# C#/F
resides in you my dear
Ebm
There's something I
C#
should tell you for
B
we may not have much
C# B C# Ebm
time I've never
C# B
seen scars like yours
Chorus 2:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B C# Ebm C#/F
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C# F# Ebm B F# Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
Chorus 3:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
C#/F B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C# F# Ebm C# F# Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
F# Ebm C# F# Ebm C# F#(hold) F#(hold)
Queen Of Pain
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68886
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C# - x46664
G#m - 466444
F#/Bb - x143xx
C#/F - 143xxx
Intro:
Ebm--C#-B--F#/Bb-G#m--F#--B-- x2
Verse 1:
Ebm
There's a fire forming
C# B C#
not too far from here
Ebm
Along the east coast
C# B
maybe it resides in
F# C#/F Ebm
you my dear Worn
C#
out on our courtesy
B
we've made our curtain
C# Ebm
calls Like vampire
C#
bats deprived of blood
B
into the New York
F# C#/F Ebm C# B C# Ebm C# B C#
City that we crawl
Verse 2:
Ebm
And you've got a funny
C#
way of showing off your
B C# Ebm
bathoom surgery You said
C#
you were just cooling down
B F# C#/F
from plans of leaving me
Ebm
There's something I should
C# B
tell you for we may not
C# B C#
have much time I've
Ebm
never met arms
C# B
like yours
Chorus 1:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B C# Ebm C#/F
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
Post Chorus:
Ebm--C#-B--F#/Bb-G#m--F#--B--
Verse 3:
Ebm
There's a hard rain
C# B
falling flooding your
C# Ebm
attic it's clear Can't
C#
put out the fire that
B F# C#/F
resides in you my dear
Ebm
There's something I
C#
should tell you for
B
we may not have much
C# B C# Ebm
time I've never
C# B
seen scars like yours
Chorus 2:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B C# Ebm C#/F
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C# F# Ebm B F# Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
Chorus 3:
F#
And the stars at night
are big and bright
Ebm
Deep in your eyes
B
Miss Vincent You
F#
told me once I made
you smile But we both
Ebm B
know damn well I didn't
F#
I'm not much of a jester
Ebm
but I'd test poisoned
C#/F B F#
food for you Your majesty
you're royal blue I'm
Ebm C# F# Ebm C# F# Ebm C#
royalty my king of pain
F# Ebm C# F# Ebm C# F#(hold) F#(hold)
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