Matches To Paper Dolls chords by Dessa

• Difficulty: Beginner

Intro:

Am
A Am
Am
A Am
Am
A Am


Verse 1:
Am      Em
I changed the locks
  F        Dm
But your key, your key’s still working
Am        E
You can’t train a moth I guess
F    Dm         Am
Oh, each beast gets her burden
       Em
So we circle this old flame
F      Em
Too much at stake
        Em
But too late to change
       Em
My nerves are shot
       F
My reserves exhausted
       D
It’s a tired plot, but we bought it
     Am
Now we’re lost

  Em
Between love and cholera
      F       Em
Saccharine read — such a sentimental novel
     Am          E
Give you cavities if it doesn’t drive you to the bottle
F             Dm
Me, I’ll take another kerosene
              Am
If you’ve got it something harder
       E
Built like a moth you see
   F             Dm
And I still get chills when you talk to me
    Am
But the years pass by now
  Em
In twos and threes
    F
These thrills ain’t as cheap
    Dm
As they used to be


Chorus:
     Am   E        F  Dm
If you’re asking, then I can’t say no
Dm      Am
Just one more chapter
E       F
Our book won’t close
  Dm     Am E
And I know it’s madness
       F  Dm
To play these odds
Dm        Am
It’s like giving matches
E
to paper
F     Dm
To paper dolls

Am E F

Dm      Am   E   F
I know it’s madness, I know
Dm      Am   E   F
I know it’s madness, I kno-o-ow
Dm     Am
I know it's mad

Em F Dm


Verse 2:
Am        E     F
Tried sweet talk, tried dynamite
         Dm         Am
But I sleepwalk, back to the battle site
        Am           F
Fight fire with fire but the fire won’t fight
          Em        Am
We just fly these circles like tired kites

  E     F
You flash some fang
   Dm    Am
And I bat my lashes
     E   F
And we’re back again
        Dm
No end to this game with matches
      Am          Em
We’ve been lovers and strangers and friends who get angry
    F             Am
Made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic
   Am            Em
We forgive and forget and give in to attraction
   F            Dm
This whole thing depends on amnesia and magnets
    Am        Em
I’d be leaving for good, looking for better
   F              Dm
But I got this broken habit I keep gluing back together
  Am                Em
The fervor the fire the feathers, the fever defies measure
     F               Fm
And good sense won’t venture, where the moth won’t let it


Chorus:
     Am   E        F  Dm
If you’re asking, then I can’t say no
Dm      Am   E
Just one more chapter
     F
Our book won’t close
  Dm     Am   E
And I know it’s ma-a-adness
       F
To play these odds
Dm        Am
It’s like giving matches
E
to paper
F     Dm
To paper dolls


Bridge:
   Am     Em       F  Dm
It's just like (just like) just like
  Am     E
It's just like (just like)
F        Dm
Just like giving matches to paper
Am     Em       F  Dm
Just like (just like) just like
  Am     E
It's just like (just like)
F        Dm
Just like giving matches to paper


Chorus:
     Am   E        F       Dm
If you’re asking, then I can’t say no (I can't say no)
Dm      Am   E
Just one more chapter
E       F
Our book won’t close
   Dm    Am   E
And I know it’s ma-a-adness
       F
To play these odds
Dm        Am
It’s like giving matches
Em
to paper
F     Dm
To paper dolls