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
The Torture Doctor
My Shame Is True
2012 Epitaph Records
Key: C
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C - x32010
G - 320003
Am - x02210
F - 133211
Em - 022000
G/B - x2x003
Intro: C--Am--G--F--
Verse 1:
G
The torture
C
doctor is in
Back here to
Am
confess his sins
G
Knowing damn well
F
he was dead wrong
G C
And I can't
believe my eyes
Am
Trouble and regret
haunt my mind
G
I'll let you take
the whole thing
down brick
F G
by brick Tonight
Refrain:
Em F
And there's a devil
C G/B
dancing in my head
Am
As I'm hovering
F G
above your bed
Chorus 1:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
C--Am--G--F-
on the south side
Verse 2:
G C
I was the worst of my kind
Am
I left me old life behind
G
Can't believe I got
F
away with it so long
G C
At the end of the day
Am
There is nothing to say
G
So tired of being
F
wired wrong All my life
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
F-C-G--Am-Em-F-C-G--
on the south side
F C G Am Em F--G--
on the south side
Interlude: Am-C-G-- x2
Chorus 3:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
C Am G C Am
on the south side
F G C Am G C Am
on the south side
F G C(hold)
on the south side
The Torture Doctor
My Shame Is True
2012 Epitaph Records
Key: C
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C - x32010
G - 320003
Am - x02210
F - 133211
Em - 022000
G/B - x2x003
Intro: C--Am--G--F--
Verse 1:
G
The torture
C
doctor is in
Back here to
Am
confess his sins
G
Knowing damn well
F
he was dead wrong
G C
And I can't
believe my eyes
Am
Trouble and regret
haunt my mind
G
I'll let you take
the whole thing
down brick
F G
by brick Tonight
Refrain:
Em F
And there's a devil
C G/B
dancing in my head
Am
As I'm hovering
F G
above your bed
Chorus 1:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
C--Am--G--F-
on the south side
Verse 2:
G C
I was the worst of my kind
Am
I left me old life behind
G
Can't believe I got
F
away with it so long
G C
At the end of the day
Am
There is nothing to say
G
So tired of being
F
wired wrong All my life
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
F-C-G--Am-Em-F-C-G--
on the south side
F C G Am Em F--G--
on the south side
Interlude: Am-C-G-- x2
Chorus 3:
Am C G
Hey, ho We know
F
how this story goes
Am C G
Hey, ho The plot
F
it thickens and grows
Am C G
Hey, ho There's
F
nothing left to hide
Am C G
Hey, ho Down here
C Am G C Am
on the south side
F G C Am G C Am
on the south side
F G C(hold)
on the south side
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