Biography:
Allister is a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. The four-piece formed in 1996 and were one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records. Besides releasing three studio albums — 1999's Dead Ends and Girlfriends, 2002's Last Stop Suburbia, and 2005's Before the Blackout — Allister made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film Sleepover. On March 6, 2007, the band announced their intention to go on hiatus. In 2010 they reunited with announce of the new album ''Countdown to Nowhere" to be released October 3rd, 2010.
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Other songs:
- 2 Am
- 5 Years
- A Lotta Nerve
- A Study In Economics
- A Thousand Miles Away
- All We Needed
- Alone
- Better Late Than Forever
- Blackout
- Boysenberry
- Breathe For You
- Camouflage
- Cant Let Go
- Chasing Amy
- Cherry
- D2
- Dance With Me
- Debbie
- Diamond Ring
- Dont Think Twice
- Drive
- Easy Answers
- Failure
- Flypaper
- Forget About Joe
- Fraggle Rawk
- Free
- Friday Night
- From The Ground Up
- Haley
- I Saw Her Standing There
- I Told You So
- I Want It That Way
- I Want You Back
- If You Didnt Mean It
- Its Just Me
- Jacob Thinks Im Gay
- Jimmys Dream Girl
- Know It All
- Live Fast Die Young
- Loco Motion
- Make It Work
- Matchsticks
- Miz
- Moon Lake Village
- Moper
- None Of My Friends Are Punks
- Overrated
- Perfect Harmony
- Pictures
- Potential Suicide
- Pretty Damn Close
- Racecars
- Radio Player
- Remember
- Residential Burglary
- Residential Burglury
- Rewind
- Runaway
- Scratch
- Something Better
- Somewhere On Fullerton
- Start Somewhere
- Stuck
- Stuck Powered On
- Suffocation
- Tethered To The Wall
- The Legend Of Pegleg Sullivan
- The One That Got Away
- Timing
- Tokyo Sunrise
- Waiting
- Waiting For You
- We Close Our Eyes
- Westbound
- Yearbook
- You Lied
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Allister
Blackout
Before The Blackout
2005
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C# - x46664
G#m - 466444
F#/Bb - x143xxx
Intro: Ebm--B-- x4
Verse 1:
Ebm
It's frightening
F#
How you can see the
G#m
changes happening
When they move so
Ebm C#-Ebm
fast
Ebm
And lightning
F#
Except the odds are
G#m
growing These lonely times
Ebm C#-Ebm
will strike me twice
Refrain 1:
B C#
The screams of a thousand
Bbm
voices Are whispers inside
B B
my head The echoes
C#
of self defense
Chorus 1:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# Ebm--B-- x2
so many times
Verse 2:
Ebm
It's biting
F#
when the cold wind
blows through
G#m
weathered eyes
Ebm C#-Ebm
and blistered skin
Ebm
it's quiet now
F#
it's like the calm before
G#m
the raging violence
Ebm C#-Ebm Ebm C#-Ebm
of the storm begins
Refrain 2:
B
and when this comes
C#
crashing down
Ebm
I'll fall harder
B
than before
B
I'll start this
C#
all over now
Chorus 2:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# Ebm--B-- x2
so many times before
Bridge:
G#m F#/Bb
I'll beg for the ending
B
or just for forgiveness
or just for forgiveness
G#m F#/Bb
I'll wait in the shadows
B C#
of a battle I'm close to losing
Chorus 3:
Silence:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up this
G#m
smiling face of silence
B
This face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# F#
so many times before
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# F#(hold)
so many times
Blackout
Before The Blackout
2005
Submitted by: [email protected]
Key: F#
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
Ebm - x68876
B - x24442
F# - 244322
C# - x46664
G#m - 466444
F#/Bb - x143xxx
Intro: Ebm--B-- x4
Verse 1:
Ebm
It's frightening
F#
How you can see the
G#m
changes happening
When they move so
Ebm C#-Ebm
fast
Ebm
And lightning
F#
Except the odds are
G#m
growing These lonely times
Ebm C#-Ebm
will strike me twice
Refrain 1:
B C#
The screams of a thousand
Bbm
voices Are whispers inside
B B
my head The echoes
C#
of self defense
Chorus 1:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# Ebm--B-- x2
so many times
Verse 2:
Ebm
It's biting
F#
when the cold wind
blows through
G#m
weathered eyes
Ebm C#-Ebm
and blistered skin
Ebm
it's quiet now
F#
it's like the calm before
G#m
the raging violence
Ebm C#-Ebm Ebm C#-Ebm
of the storm begins
Refrain 2:
B
and when this comes
C#
crashing down
Ebm
I'll fall harder
B
than before
B
I'll start this
C#
all over now
Chorus 2:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# Ebm--B-- x2
so many times before
Bridge:
G#m F#/Bb
I'll beg for the ending
B
or just for forgiveness
or just for forgiveness
G#m F#/Bb
I'll wait in the shadows
B C#
of a battle I'm close to losing
Chorus 3:
Silence:
F#
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up this
G#m
smiling face of silence
B
This face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# F#
so many times before
So how many times
C#
will it take
To cover up the
G#m
past mistakes
And hide behind a
B C#
crying you face of shame
F#
And how many
C#
nights will I hide
and blink under the
G#m
blackened skies
I've cursed out
B C# F#(hold)
so many times
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