This Addiction Chords
This Addiction by Alkaline Trio is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, C#m, B, A, Abm and B/D#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E C#m B A (2x) E Abm A (2x)
Verse 1:
E Abm A
You hit me just like heroin
E Abm A
I feel you coursing through my veins
E Abm A
I once tried to kick this addiction
E
I swear I'll never kick again
B E B/D#
won't ever kick again no
C#m A
This addiction
E
Can't seem to
B
live without you
C#m A
This addiction
E B
Now going clean
C#m A
This addiction
E
I go through
B
withdrawal
A
without you
B
Sick with this
A
addiction in me
Post-chorus: E Abm A (2x)
Verse 2:
E
Well those others
Abm A
were like methadone
E
I took to get me
Abm A
through the day
E
Now I'm trying to
Abm A
find my way back home
E
Staying clean
along the way
B
Hold out for the
E B/D#
real thing yeah
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Interlude: E C#m B A (2x)
C#m A E B
This addiction
C#m A E B
This addiction
C#m A
This addiction
E B
I Go off the roads
A
without you
B
Sick with this
A
addiction in me
Outro: E Abm A (2x)