Alkaline Trio – Emma (Guitar)

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Good Mourning 2003 Submitted by: [email protected] 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
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