Alkaline Trio
Only Love
My Shame Is True
2013 Epitaph Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: A
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
A - x02220
E - 022100
F#m - 244222
D - xx0232
Bm - x24432
C#m - x46654
E/G# - 476xxx
A/C# - x476xx
Intro:
F#m-A-Bm-- x2
F#m A Bm
Woah oh oh
F#m C#m D
Woah oh oh
Verse 1:
Bm
How young are you
F#m A
gonna be when you die?
F#m
I guess I never really
A
thought about that
F#m
You're dying when you
E/G#
start thinking like
A E
that All I know is time
is undefeated so far
Bm F#m
Get right with god
A
before it's time
F#m
I hear the telephone
A
works both ways
F#m
Think you can make a
E/G# A
little effort some day?
E
I got an awful lot going
on with the things that
Bm E
I can see and what I see are
C#m F#m
the reasons that I bleed
Bm F#m
And the blood I give to her
D
and her that's all there is
Chorus 1:
A Bm
It's only love
D
That keeps us here
A
And this food and these
E D
drinks they're all poison
A Bm D
And life is dead so die well
with some good distractions
A E D
At the end there is only love
F#m A Bm
Woah oh oh
F#m C#m D
Woah oh oh
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Verse 2:
Bm F#m
Seperate these lies
A
like there's a truth
F#m
I didn't know it
A
if I had told you
F#m
You've all been lying
E/G# A
since you murdered my youth
E
I know you're gonna take what's
left but you'll never see me
Bm E
run No here I am can you
C#m F#m
see what's in these hands?
Bm F#m
It's everything I need
D
to see to breath to feel
Chorus 2:
A Bm
It's only love
D
That keeps us here
A
And this food and these
E D
drinks they're all poison
A Bm D
And life is dead so die well
with some good distractions
A E D
At the end there is only love
Guitar Solo: A--E--F#m--D--
Bridge:
A
I lie awake on this earth
E/G#
I lay with all that I love
F#m
And all I need on this
D Bm E C#m F#m Bm F#m D-- Guitar Solo continues
earth and what's below
Chorus 3:
A Bm
It's only love
D
That keeps us here
A
And this food and these
E D
drinks they're all poison
A Bm D
And life is dead so die well
with some good distractions
A E D
At the end there is only love
F#m A/C# D
At the end there is only love
F#m A Bm
Woah oh oh
F#m A Bm
Woah oh oh
F#m A Bm
Woah oh oh
F#m C#m D(hold)
Woah oh oh
