Fall Victim — Alkaline Trio
Chords and lyrics for Fall Victim by Alkaline Trio (key of A).
Verse 1
Crimson
2005
Chords used:
A - x02220
D - xx0232
A/C# - x476xx
Intro: A--A/C#-D--A--A/C#-D-E-
Verse 1
[F#m]Not sure how this [A]is
supposed to [D]feel
[F#m]Cutting like a [A]red hot
knife of [D]surgical steel
[F#m] Brought flesh [A]from
the [D]autoclave
She [F#m]came, she came
with [A]sterile warning
[E]Screaming from her blade is [D]in
"I want to make you bleed."
Chorus 1
[A] I watched them fall in
line[A/C#] as [D]I fell victim
[A] To double suicide[F#m]
on your [D]television
[A] We heard our records
[A/C#]backwards [D]too many times
[A] I'm wasting my breath
[F#m] we're [D]wasting [E]our [F#m][A]time[D]
Wasting our [F#m][A][D]time[A/C#]
Verse 2
[F#m] Down on my [A]knees
but not to [D]pray
[F#m]Hit so hard [A]across the
skull it [D]buckled my legs
[F#m] They told me [A]I
had hell to [D]pay
I [F#m]came I came too
[A]close to heaven
[E]Had nothing to
say for [D]myself
I had to walk away
Chorus 2
[A] I watched them fall in
line[A/C#] as [D]I fell victim
[A] To double suicide[F#m]
on your [D]television
[A] We heard our records
[A/C#]backwards [D]too many times
[A] I'm wasting my breath
[F#m] we're [D]wasting [E]our [F#m][A]time[D]
Wasting our [F#m][A]time[D]
[F#m][A]time[D]
wasting our [F#m]time[A]
wasting our[D] time
Interlude: F#m-A-D--F#m-A-E--D-
Chorus 3
[A] I watched them fall in
line[A/C#] as [D]I fell victim
[A] To double suicide[F#m]
on your [D]television
[A] We heard our records
[A/C#]backwards [D]too many times
[A] I'm wasting my breath
[F#m] we're [D]wasting [E][F#m]our[A]
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