Alkaline Trio
Emma
Good Mourning
2003
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
B - x24442
C#m - x46654
A - x02220
Intro: E--A-B- x2
Verse 1:
E
Emma appeared like an angel
A B
Emma fell like rain
E
Into my lap like a heart attack
A B
like lightning from her name
E
I'm running dry of bad excuses
A B
Don't want to lie or seem intrusive
E
But time hasn't told me
A B
anything and neither has she
Chorus 1:
C#m
A poinsettia in
A
poison rain
E
Traded true love for
B
insult and injury
C#m
We washed it down
A E
the drain with one silver
B E A B
bullet and two vicodin
E A B
With two vicodin
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Verse 2:
E
Emma woke up in darkness
A B
suitcase already packed
E
Note on the bedstand signed
A
in blood "Sincerely
B
never coming back"
E
A nightmare on my street
the day she arrived
A
A nightmarish household
B
in which she died because
E
it made her feel at home
A B
Somehow made me feel at home
Chorus 2:
C#m A
A poinsettia in poison rain
E
Traded true love for
B
insult and injury
C#m A
We washed it down the drain
E
with one wooden stake
B E A B E A B
through the heart and two vicodin
Chorus 3:
C#m
A poinsettia in
A
poison rain
E
Traded true love for
B
insult and injury
C#m
We washed it down
A E
the drain with one silver
B
bullet and two vicodin
Chorus 4:
C#m A
We watched the sun fall crown
E
on a city that sleeps
B
in a world upside down
C#m
A slow ticket
A
straight out of town
E
You went out with a bang when
B
you took with you all
E A
my dreams underground
B
With you all my
E A
dreams underground
B
With you all my
E A
dreams underground
B
With you all my
E A B E(hold)
dreams underground
