Blue In The Face Chords & Tabs
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BLUE IN THE FACE - Alkaline Trio
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Tabbed by: robert
Email: rskjr@spymac.com
Tuning: EADGBe
6/8 time
I don't include rhythm in this tab. only the chords that you play during a certain
are
here.
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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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/alkaline_trio/blue_in_the_face_tab.html ]
"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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