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Eating Me Alive

Alkaline Trio

RockAdvanced for beginners8 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
G
A5Diagram coming soon
F
E5Diagram coming soon
F5Diagram coming soon
C5Diagram coming soon
G5Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: C G A5 C G A5 F G  
 
Verse 1:
  
C 
Well I found you outside like a sunrise, 
       G 
That melted my eyes from my skull. 
                  E5 
As I turned into ash before for my sweet demise, 
      F               G 
The end of me was so beautiful. 
                   C                      G 
Well now you're stuck in my head like a love song, 
 
That climbed to the top of the charts. 
          E5 
How the fuck can something be so right and so wrong? 
         F                             G 
All the wrong words but all the right parts. 
 
 
 
            A5              F5           C5     G5 
And you can sit there and tell me that I didn't try, 
            A5       F5           C5     G5 
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied. 
        A5              F5           C5             G5   F 
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside. 
G           F     G 
Eating me alive 
F           G     F     
Eating me alive 
 
 
Verse 2: 
 
C 
Well I found you out there in the moonlight, 
           G 
In your eyes there were diamonds like stars. 
         E5 
I was bound by your father, the jewel thief, 
                   F                         G 
That night as you said he was still behind bars. 
C 
Now you're stuck in my head like a love song, 
       G 
The words I can never forget. 
      E5                                
As I sucked on your neck for way too long, 
                               F           G 
And drained you of every last drop you had left. 
 
 
 
            A5              F5           C5     G5 
And you can sit there and tell me that I didn't try, 
            A5       F5           C5     G5 
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied. 
        A5              F5           C5             G5   F 
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside. 
G            F    G 
Eating me alive 
F            G    F     
Eating me alive 
 
 
Bridge: 
 
F               G      C      G 
Here lies a homicidal story, sad but true. 
C                                   F      G 
The time has come and gone but I'd do anything for you. 
 
 
 
            A5              F5           C5     G5 
And you can sit there and tell me that I didn't try, 
            A5       F5           C5     G5 
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied. 
        A5              F5           C5             G5   F 
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside. 
G           F 
Eating me alive 
G           F 
Eating me alive 
C 
Eating me alive. 
          
 

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Chord set

C · G · A5 · F · E5 · F5 · C5 · G5

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.