Paper Tigers

Capo 3:

Intro:G/B C D/F# G/B C G D/F# 

Verse:
G/B                C          D/F#
  Well I’ve been huddled up alone,
                      G/B
  By the fire even though,
            C              G  D/F#
  I’m not exactly feeling co---ld,
G/B               C             D/F#
  And I’ve been bundled up for days,
                        G/B
  Too confused to be amazed,
              C         G     D/F# C G D/F#
  At all the icy water in my veins,

Refrain:
                      C   G  D/F#
  Why do I feel so alone?

Verse:
G/B                C           D/F#
  Yeah I’ve been moving in and out,
                           G/B
  Of this old split-level house,
                   C             G/B         D/F#
  And I’d just as soon burn the whole place down,
G/B             C             D/F#
 ‘Cause I quit working lumberyards,
                               Am7
  To build a mansion out of cards,
               C                G     D/F# C G D/F# 
  But I feel thin behind these paper walls,
 
Refrain:
                      C   G  D/F#
  Why do I feel so alone?

Chorus:
             G        D/F#           Am7            C
 ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite,
            G          D/F#                Am7      C
  Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite,
              G       D/F#            Am7        C    
  But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right,
              Am7     G/B            C   D/F#              G Am7 G/B C G Am7 C D/F# (twice)
  That makes every love lost just a holiday every night,

Verse:
G                 C                    D/F#
  Well I’ve been painting through the night,
                            G/B
  In the basement out of sight,
            C            G         D/f#
  Brushing paper tigers black and white,
G/B             C           D/F#
 ‘Cause come tomorrow afternoon,
                            Am7
  I’ll fill a helium balloon,
                C              G        D/F# C G D/F#
  And set them free into the baby blue sky,

Refrain:
                             C   Em D/F#
  So they won’t have to be alone,

Chorus:
             G       D/F#            Am7            C
 ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite,
             G         D/F#                 F       C
  Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite,
              G      D/F#             Am7        C
  But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right,
              Am7     G/B            C  D/F#
  That makes every love lost just a holiday every night,

Bridge:
F             C                 G          D/F#
  But when I close these heavy lids after dark,
F                         C
  Each sweet dream is a target,
              D/F#            Em        C           D/F#
  And all my shots are so consistently wide of the mark,

Coda:
             G       D/F#            Am7            C
 ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite,
            G          D/F#                F        C
  Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite,
              G     D/F#               Am7       C
  But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right,
              Am7     G/B             C D/F#           Am7 G/B
  That makes every love lost just a holiday every night,
          C  D/F#
  Just a holiday every night,
          C  D/F#
  Just a holiday every night,
          C  D/F#             G Am7 G/B C G Am7 C D/F# (twice)
  Just a holiday every night,


Outro:
G/B               C            D/F#
  Well I’ve been huddled up alone,
                       G/B
  By the fire even though,
            C              G D/F#  
  I’m not exactly feeling co--ld,
G/B            C                D/F#
  But how my heartache hit the trail,
                       G/B
  When a paper tiger tail,
             C                  G     D/F#
  Fluttered down, I guess I’ll never know,