Alkaline Trio
Kick Rocks
This Addiction
2010 Epitaph Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com

Key: A

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
A -    x02220
E -    022100
F#m -  244222
D -    xx0232
C#m -  x46654
E/G# - 476xxx


Intro: A-C#m-F#m-D- x2


Verse 1:
A     C#m
  You take these 
       F#m       D
sticks and stones
A       C#m
  And apply what 
         F#m    D
you have learned
A
  But you ain't 
C#m    F#m
got no water
D
  So you let that 
A     C#m    F#m D
motherfucker burn
         E
Yeah it smoked up
       D
and it burned out


Verse 2:
       A          C#m
Like a graduation bonfire
    F#m             D    A C#m F#m D
two miles from your house
A             C#m        F#m D
  And you had nowhere to go
A             C#m
  so you came right back
F#m D A           C#m
here   I couldn't find what
    F#m   D        A
you wanted so you slapped me
       C#m
in the face and spilled my 
F#m D             E
beer And when the mess
             D
dried up you came up singing


Chorus 1:
A        D
  Let us drink from
    E
the hourglass
A        D
  We can make time
 E   A
stop Watch from the
E/G#      F#m
window upstairs
           E
While they all
     D    E
kick rocks
while they all
A         C#m F#m D A C#m F#m D
kick rocks


Verse 2:
            A
And I miss smoking
       C#m F#m D
in the fall 
            A
And pissing on that 
C#m         F#m D
gas station wall
         A
What's a law? What's 
  C#m            F#m
a fire? What's a river?
   D           A       C#m F#m D
We jumped over them all
               E
But I guess my legs got 
             D
tired and my teeth got long
           A
I guess my legs got 
C#m          F#m       D
tired and my teeth got long


Chorus 2:
A           D
  So take a sip from
    E
the hourglass
A        D
  We can make time
 E   A
stop Watch from
    E/G#      F#m
the window upstairs
           E
While they all
     D    E
kick rocks


Bridge:
C#m
   I tried to write 
      F#m
you a passage
D
   But you're holding 
            A    E/G#
out for the flick
F#m                 D
Wait outside by the exit
                        E
When they don't let you in


Chorus 3:
A           D
  So we can drink 
         E
from the hourglass
A        D
  We can make time
 E   A
stop Watch from
    E/G#      F#m
the window upstairs
           E
While they all
     D    E
kick rocks
A
Watch from
    E/G#      F#m
the window upstairs
           E
While they all
     D    E
kick rocks
while they all
A         C#m F#m D(hold)
kick rocks