Alkaline Trio
Balanced On A Shelf
Broken Wing
2013
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: B

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
G#m -  466444
E -    022100
B -    x24442
F# -   244322
B/Eb - x698xx
A -    x02220
C#/F - 143xxx
Eb/G - 365xxx


Intro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x3, F#--G#m--


Verse 1:
           G#m
A somewhat inviting very 
B                    E
different of kind of hell
        G#m
To live without ever
F#             E
looking at yourself
        B/Eb
You see life is so
     E
much simpler when it's
B             F#
balanced on a shelf
           A
Thats been unperfectly
                    F#
placed there in the sun
    F#
now look at how
your'e admired by


Refrain 1:
     E
everyone Who sees
    G#m
you now they know
     F#
your name. But is
   E
it real? All your
    G#m
bad habits have
  F#
become your
         E
life's appeal


Chorus:
              B
And then it's where
           E
did you go wrong where
did you go wrong?
When you're screaming
B
where did you go wrong
                 E
where did you go wrong?
              G#m B E 
Well first of all
    F#       G#m B E
and worst of all
    F#       G#m
you looked inside
    B           E
yourself didn't care
         F#       E  C#/F
much for what you saw
F#    Eb/G     G#m
  for what you saw


Post Chorus: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#--


Verse 2:
         G#m
Can you imagine did 
    B              E
you ever play with dolls?
           G#m
You can protect your cotton
F#                E
heartbeat on the skin
of porcelain walls
          B/Eb
You keep staring to your
E
future through these
B                F#
marble eyes they show
     A
Everything I'm never
           F#
ever gonna have
         F#        
That's a giant pill
But swallow if you-


Refrain 2:
 E                 G#m
-can You'll start again
You'll change your
F#            E
name and be reborn 
    G#m
and give in to them
F#                E
all that has been torn


(Repeat Chorus)


Outro: G#m-E-G#m-E-G#m-E-F#-- x2, G#m(hold)