Balanced On A Shelf chords by Alkaline Trio

• Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

[0:13]
G#m B E F#
 G#m B F#


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

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

              B                                        E
And then it's where did you go wrong, where did you go wrong?
                      B                                        E
When you're screaming where did you go wrong, where did you go wrong?
              G#m B E F#   G#m        G#m  B  E  F#
Well first of a-l-l,     and worst of a---l---l.
            G#m       B           E             F#        E  E/F
you looked inside yourself didn't care much for what you saw
             G#m
for what you saw

 G#m B E F#
 G#m B F#

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

             G#m
You'll start again,
                   F#            E
You'll change your name and be reborn
    G#m            F#            E
and give in to all that has been torn

              B                                        E
And then it's where did you go wrong, where did you go wrong?
                      B                                        E
When you're screaming where did you go wrong, where did you go wrong?
              G#m B E F#   G#m        G#m  B  E  F#
Well first of a-l-l,     and worst of a---l---l.
            G#m       B           E             F#        E  E/F
you looked inside yourself didn't care much for what you saw
             G#m
for what you saw

 G#m B E F#
 G#m B F#
 G#m B E F#
 G#m B F# F#