Broken Wing Chords
Broken Wing by Alkaline Trio is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, Em, D, Am and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G C Em D C (2x)
C G
It ain't hard to get lost,
D Am
When you forget, where you come from.
C G
Turn that dial to the right and push that pedal down.
D
Don't say goodbye,
C
Just for the drive,
G D
Along for the ride.
G D
It would be real nice just to fly away,
Em
And escape everything.
C
But little bird,
G
Looks like you've got a broken wing.
D Em
Now anything so easy, it might not make you weak.
C
But it sure won't make me believe.
G C Em D C
C G
It's hell you say and it gets worse you know.
D Am
How many more days am I gonna wake up when there's no place I wanna go?
C G
That sunshine's really gonna kill us all why is everyday so cold?
D C
Why is everything, so fucking cold,
G D
And never melts away.
G D
It would be real nice just to fly away,
Em
And escape everything.
C
But little bird,
G
Looks like you've got a broken wing.
D Em
Now anything so easy, it might not make you weak.
C
But it sure won't make me believe.
Am C G
That's the top of your lungs, and the bottom of your heart.
Am C G
Is that the top of your lungs, Is that the bottom of your heart.
Am Bm C D G D
Is that as deep as your heart goes?
G (4x)
G D
I understand the things that keep you up,
Em
And I know that you still feel.
C
And I know that your heart is hemorrhaging,
G
And needs some time to heal.
D
Now the traffic lights there on your street,
Em
Flash yellow all the time,
C Bm
And the mirror in your bathroom it looks cracked in the wrong light
C
But walk out through your threshold,
G D C
Through your lungs and move on down the stairs.
Em D C G
And let the things you love come back to you in time
Am D
we'll all get there
G D
It would be real nice just to fly away,
Em
And escape everything.
C
But little bird,
G
Looks like you've got a broken wing.
D Em
Now anything so easy, it might not make you weak.
C D G
But it sure won't make me believe.