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Blue in the Face   Alkaline Trio

 
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 Tuning: EADGBe


 6/8 time


 


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 Intro: 8 measures. "It's about..."


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 Verse: 0:14: 16 measures


 "time... that I came clean with you no longer


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 fine I'm no longer runnin' smooth. I thought that"


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 "I found myself under something new just one more


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 line. I repeat over and over again 'til I'm blue in the


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 Chorus: 0:43 (8 measures)


 face with a choking re-gret as I talk in circles round you on my bed, can't say


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 i blamed you one bit when you kept it all in-side when you left that


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 night."


 


 Measures 25-32, play through verse progression twice.


 


 "It's about.."


 "time... that you got sick of me, no longer..."


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 "fun and so far fro-om interesting. I thought that..."


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 "I found me a cure fo-or feeling old, just one more..."


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 "line... to keep me sleeping loudly and cold and dis-"


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 Chorus: 1:38 (8 measures)


 "graced with a shameful regret as I talk in tongues to myself in my bed, can't say


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 I blamed you one bit when you kept it all in-side when you left that night."


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 Bridge: 1:58


 "And all that followed fell, like mercury to hell. some-


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 -how we lost our heads for the last time. And


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 all that followed fell, like mercury to hell. Some


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 -how we lost our heads for the last time."


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 2:26 modified verse


 


 "And I don't dream since I quit sleeping and I


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 haven't slept since I met you and


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 you can't breathe without coughing in daytime neither can


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 I so what do you say your coffin or mine?"


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