Owl City – Paper Tigers (Guitar)

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Artist: Owl City Album: / (from Adam Young's blog) Song: Paper Tigers Verse 1:

G/B               C             D
   Well I’ve been huddled up alone

By the fire even though

G/B          C             G   D
   I’m not exactly feeling cold

G/B                 C               D
   And I’ve been bundled up for days

Too confused to be amazed

G/B           C         G     D
   At all the icy water in my veins

Pre-chorus:

C  G/B  D                   C  Em  D
         Why do I feel so alone?

Verse 2:

G/B               C              D
   Yeah I’ve been moving in and out

Of this old split-level house

G/B             C                G           D
   And I’d just as soon burn the whole place down

G/B              C              D
   ‘Cause I quit working lumberyards

To build a mansion out of cards

Am           C                 G     D     
  But I feel thin behind these paper walls

Pre-chorus:

C  G/B  D                   C   Em  D
         Why do I feel so alone?

Chorus:

          G        D
Cause the angriest bark 

          Am             C
Is always worse than the bite

         G          D
Like the ache in my chest

              Em       C
That my heart didn’t invite

           G          D
But if the prettiest romance

      Am        C
Isn’t perfectly right

           Am         G/B
That makes every love lost

       C       D
Just a holiday every night

Interlude (x2): G Am G/B C G Am C D Verse 3:

G/B               C                     D
   Well I’ve been painting through the night

In the basement out of sight

G/B         C            G         D
   Brushing paper tigers black and white

G/B              C            D
   ‘Cause come tomorrow afternoon

I’ll fill a helium balloon

Am               C           G      D
  And set them free into the baby blue sky

Pre-chorus:

C  G/B  D                           C  Em  D
         So they won’t have to be alone

Chorus:

          G        D
Cause the angriest bark 

          Am             C
Is always worse than the bite

         G          D
Like the ache in my chest

              F        C
That my heart didn’t invite

           G          D
But if the prettiest romance

      Am        C
Isn’t perfectly right

           Am         G/B
That makes every love lost

       C       D
Just a holiday every night

Bridge:

F             C                G             D
 But when I close these heavy lids after dark

    F                  C             
Each sweet dream is a target

           D               Em        C           D
And all my shots are so consistently wide of the mark

Chorus:

          G        D
Cause the angriest bark 

          Am             C
Is always worse than the bite

         G          D
Like the ache in my chest

              F        C
That my heart didn’t invite

           G          D
But if the prettiest romance

      Am        C
Isn’t perfectly right

           Am         G/B
That makes every love lost

       C       D
Just a holiday every night

Am  G/B       C      D            
       Just a holiday every night

Am  G/B       C      D            
       Just a holiday every night

Interlude (x2):

G  Am  G/B  C  G  Am        C       D
                     Just a holiday every night

G Am G/B C G Am C D Ending:

G/B               C             D
   Well I’ve been huddled up alone

By the fire even though

G/B          C             G   D
   I’m not exactly feeling cold

G/B             C                 D
   But how my heartache hit the trail

When a paper tiger tail

Am           C                  G     D
   Fluttered down, I guess I’ll never know