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