Treading Paper chords by Thrice

Treading Paper
Major Minor
2011
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

Key: C

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
Am  x02210
A  x02220
F  133211
Dm  xx0231
G  320003
E  022100

Intro: Am


Verse 1:
All my life I've been treading
paper in the space between the words
  A F
And there implied is that
                 A
I'm but another body for the birds
Am
carrion absurd and accidental
F       Am A
atoms beating air
Am
carrying on unwitting orphan
   A       Am
of an unyielding despair


Guitar Solo: Am  x2


Verse 2:
  Am
But linger on just for a moment
   Dm     A
until we can ascertain if
Amsomething's wrong with me

Or the assumptions of these
Dm      A
self indicted brains
    Am       G
Because I contend that all

of this is more than just
 Dm       A
a meaningless charade
   Am
That each and every moment is
               A(hold)
a bottle with a message hid away


Chorus 1:
F    Am       G
 If anything means anything
      Dm      Am
There must be something meant
     G  F
for us to be a song
   Am       G
that we were made to sing
      Dm
There must be so much
Am        G
more than we can see


Verse 3:
  Am      G
But all our lives we've
been treading paper
    F        A
in the space between the words
  Am         G
And there implied's the thought
that we are barely more than
F       A   Am
bodies for the birds carrion
   G
They say that we're just accidental
Dm      A  Am       G
atoms beating air carrying on and on
            Dm
Unwitting orphans of an unyielding
  A
despair


Bridge:
Dm
 But our hearts
         F
tell a different story
Dm              E
 our hands feel a different pulse


Chorus 2:

Silence:
F    C       G
 If anything means anything
      F      C
There must be something meant
     G
for us to be

Distortion:
F    Am       G
 If anything means anything
      Dm      Am
There must be something meant
     G F
for us to be a song
   Am       G
that we were made to sing
      Dm
There must be so much
Am        G
more than we can see


Outro:
     F         Dm
Something fathomless deeper than our
        F        Dm
pride can dive numinous higher than
          F
Our hearts can rise transcendent
    Dm
further than our thoughts
     F
can reach immanent
    Dm       A(hold)