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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Your Neck
-Alkaline Trio
Standard Tuning
Chords Used:
Asus4 |002230| G5 |355xxx|
Cadd9 |032030| E5 |022xxx|
Em/C |032000| C5 |x355xx|
D/F# |254xxx| D5 |x577xx|
G/B |x254xx| B5 |x244xx|
Em |022000| Eb5 |x688xx|
G |320033| C |032010|
Am |002210| D |x00232|
Intro/Chorus (palm-mute)
G5 D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
E5 G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C5
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D5
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C5 G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
Interlude (easy way)
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
A5 B5 C5
(OR)
Interlude (fun way)
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Em Asus4 C Em/C
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Am B5 C5
Verse (palm-mute)
E5 A5 C5 B5
Well first things first, we've gotta find a way
E5 A5 C5 B5
To make the beauty of the night time last all day
E5 A5 C5 B5
We'll do our very best to keep our appetites in check
C5 D5 B5 C5
You better watch your back, we-ee want your neck
Interlude
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
(OR)
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Em Asus4 C Em/C
Verse (palm-mute)
E5 A5 C5 B5
Nothing but rotten apples lay here light years from the tree
E5 A5 C5 B5
Got thrown out of the house at the ripe age of three
E5 A5 C5 B5
I'll do my very best to keep my feelings off my chest
C5 D5 C5 B5
And out of your neck, out of your neck
Chorus
G D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
Em G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
Bridge
E5 C5 A5 D5 Eb5
E5 C5 A5 D5 Eb5
Chorus (palm mute)
G5 D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
E5 G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C5
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D5
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C5 G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
(realese palm-mute)
G D/F#
We're the dreams that crumble into nightmares while you sleep
Em G/B
Yeah, we're that feeling someone's watching from the street
C
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
End Em
-Alkaline Trio
Standard Tuning
Chords Used:
Asus4 |002230| G5 |355xxx|
Cadd9 |032030| E5 |022xxx|
Em/C |032000| C5 |x355xx|
D/F# |254xxx| D5 |x577xx|
G/B |x254xx| B5 |x244xx|
Em |022000| Eb5 |x688xx|
G |320033| C |032010|
Am |002210| D |x00232|
Intro/Chorus (palm-mute)
G5 D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
E5 G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C5
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D5
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C5 G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
Interlude (easy way)
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
A5 B5 C5
(OR)
Interlude (fun way)
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Em Asus4 C Em/C
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Am B5 C5
Verse (palm-mute)
E5 A5 C5 B5
Well first things first, we've gotta find a way
E5 A5 C5 B5
To make the beauty of the night time last all day
E5 A5 C5 B5
We'll do our very best to keep our appetites in check
C5 D5 B5 C5
You better watch your back, we-ee want your neck
Interlude
E5 A5 C5
E5 A5 C5
(OR)
Em Asus4 C Cadd9
Em Asus4 C Em/C
Verse (palm-mute)
E5 A5 C5 B5
Nothing but rotten apples lay here light years from the tree
E5 A5 C5 B5
Got thrown out of the house at the ripe age of three
E5 A5 C5 B5
I'll do my very best to keep my feelings off my chest
C5 D5 C5 B5
And out of your neck, out of your neck
Chorus
G D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
Em G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
Bridge
E5 C5 A5 D5 Eb5
E5 C5 A5 D5 Eb5
Chorus (palm mute)
G5 D/F#
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
E5 G/B
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
C5
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D5
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C5 G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
(realese palm-mute)
G D/F#
We're the dreams that crumble into nightmares while you sleep
Em G/B
Yeah, we're that feeling someone's watching from the street
C
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
D
Why the light of day that's shown to us
C G/B
Is absolutely meaningless to me
End Em
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