This Addiction

Alkaline Trio

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

C#mDiagram coming soon

BDiagram coming soon

AbmDiagram coming soon

D#Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              
 
Intro: E  C#m  B  A (2x) E  Abm A  (2x) 
 
 
Verse 1:
 
    E                      Abm A 
You hit me just like heroin 
           E                        Abm A 
I feel you coursing through my veins 
       E                           Abm A 
I once tried to kick this addiction 
             E 
I swear I'll never kick again 
      B          E    B/D# 
won't ever kick again no 
 
 
 
C#m    A 
This addiction 
E 
  Can't seem to  
B 
live without you 
C#m    A 
This addiction 
E           B 
  Now going clean 
C#m    A 
This addiction 
E 
  I go through  
    B 
withdrawal  
        A 
without you 
          B 
Sick with this  
  A 
addiction in me 
 
 
Post-chorus: E  Abm A  (2x) 
 
 
Verse 2:
 
           E 
Well those others  
                   Abm A 
were like methadone 
          E 
I took to get me  
               Abm A 
through the day 
        E 
Now I'm trying to  
                     Abm A 
find my way back home 
        E 
Staying clean  
along the way 
         B 
Hold out for the  
      E    B/D# 
real thing yeah 
 
 
(Repeat Chorus 1) 
 
 
Interlude: E  C#m  B  A   (2x) 
 
 
 
C#m    A      E B 
This addiction 
C#m    A      E B 
This addiction 
C#m    A 
This addiction 
E              B 
  I Go off the roads  
        A 
without you 
          B 
Sick with this  
  A 
addiction in me 
 
 
Outro: E  Abm A  (2x)

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Chord set

E · C#m · B · A · Abm · D#

Practice tip

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