Paper Tiger

 
              E       (E7)              Bm 
Just like a paper tiger 
Torn apart by idle hands 
Through the helter skelter morning 
Fix yourself while you still can 
No more ashes to ashes 
No more cinders from the sky 
All the laws of creation 
Tell a dead man how to die 
 
 
E    C                   A 
O deserts down below us 
E    C                   A 
And storms up above 
E         C                         A 
Like a stray dog gone defective 
E          A     G          E 
Like a paper tiger in the sun 
 
Verse 
 
E       (E7)              Bm 
Looking through a broken diamond 
To make the past what it should be 
Through the ruins and the weather 
Capsized boats in the sea 
 
 
 
E    C                   A 
O deserts down below us 
E    C                   A 
And storms up above 
E         C                         A 
Like a stray dog gone defective 
E          A    G          E 
Like a paper tiger in the sun 
 
 
E       (E7)              Bm 
We're just holding on to nothing 
To see how long nothing lasts 
 
 
E    C                   A 
O deserts down below us 
E    C                   A 
And storms up above 
E         C                         A 
Like a stray dog gone defective 
E          A     G         E 
Like a paper tiger in the sun 
 
E       (E7)              Bm 
There's one road to the morning 
There's one road to the truth 
There's one road back to civilization 
But there's no road back to you....