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Paper Hearts chords by
Why?
Why?

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Intro 1
D
Em
G

C
G
D
G

D
G

C
G
D

Verse 1

Em
G

To be born as anything but this

The dying wish of a dinosaur's dish
D
G

Of no use, a shitty gift like a single slipper
D

I go diffuse in city quick

like the little dipper
Verse 2
D
G
D

She's cute with little titties
G

and a sense of humor
D
G

But to tell you the truth,

sir, I pity the poor fool
D
Bm

Her fruitless in a holster and

clueless in a kiss

I'm older than death,
D
G

vulgar with unfresh breath
D
During
Verse 3
G

sex I might put us

in some joke positions
Em
G

But it's scary always how we

end up in mission
D

Eerily Like the daring men who
Bm

fight to submission
D
Bm

Barely conscious there to care
D

about the split decision
G
Your sour
Verse 4
C

thoughts you wield at me,
G

you wring out your melon
Am
G

But it yields only drops like

an unripe lemon
Bm

All a man can understand

is your bad intentions
D

The less you talk the more you
G

draw and seal an ending
Verse 5
G

Keep leafing through the glossary

Sitting there puffing weed

Telling me repeatedly all the

things you want to be
D

The thug's just a boy once my
G
D

money in the bags

Is your love but a ploy like
G
D

Bugs Bunny in drag?
Verse 6
C
G

I leave my lungs open,

exposed to the whole crew
C
G

While you sneak a bump and smoke
Em

cloves in the coat room
Bm

Itching like a local ho,
G
Bm

wishing like Pinocchio
D

The wind is at my back anew, but
Verse 7

still I feel the lack of you
Em

Oh, you were so heavy in my heart, boo

That soon no longer could

my true heart hold you
G
D

And like the angular Etruscan
G
D

tchotchke my mom got me
G

At the Met gift shop in '92
Verse 8
C

Tearing from the brown paper bag

I kept it in when it was new

After I left it overnight when it

was wet with dew
Bm

It sounds blue and shitty
D

But of course kid, like the little skinny bronze horse did,
Verse 9

you fell through
Em

You were like a buoy I put
Am
G

down in open ocean
Em

But with no cross staff and no compass
G

in my possession
D

And too far out for a lighthouse

to provide discretion

How could I presume that you'd
Verse 10

divine direction?
C

Must have patience, accept no imitations

Take no paper hearts and fucking

hate carnations
Bm
D

Though my home is vacant,
Bm
D

yeah I'm lonesome while I wait

That's no open invitation made to
Verse 11

hope we make acquaintance
G
Em
Am

The long walks home from the
G

laundromat
Em
Am
G

In Pop- Pop's Holden Caulfield hat
D

Alone, lost for certain, dry and pent

Dead bent like a merchant ivory gent
Verse 12
C

Yes, to yet get a spouse and kids,

have a house full

But I'm hard to be around,
Bm

and sterile as a roused mule
D
Bm

(Preemptive nostalgia of the possible
D

but doubtful)
G

Preemptive nostalgia of the possible but
Interlude 1

doubtful
G

C
A

G

C


Verse 13
G

And always something
C
A
G

reminds me of you
Outro 1
C


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Chords
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  • Em

  • G

  • C

  • Bm

    2
  • Am

  • A

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