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Paper Hanger

Mewithoutyou
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 First Verse.
Not  one motion of her gesture could I forget
 The prettiest bag lady I ever met
Pushing  her cart  in the rain
 Then gathering plastic and glass
 She watched the day pass
 Not hour by hour
But  pain by pain
 If I was a basket filled with holes
 Then she was the sand I tried to hold
 And ran out behind me
 As I swung  with some invisible hands
I  stopped believing, you start to move
I  stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
 First Chorus.
, ,  (  if you want) x4
 Second Verse.
If  you're still looking for a blanket
 Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric
 But if you need a tailor
Then  take your torn  shirt, and stumble up my stairs
 And mumble your pitiful prayers
 And in your tangled, knotted sleep,  our midnight  needles go to work
 Until all comfort and fear flows in one river
 Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whole
And  it makes you shiver
I  stopped believing, you start to move
I  stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
 Second Chorus.
, ,  (  if you want) x8
, , , , , ,  feedback x4
, , , , , , , ,  x6
 mewithoutYou's is, in my opinion, the best Muslim alt band.
 This song's been out since 04, and there still weren't any
chords for it online, so here you go. A tab would be better
for certain parts of this song, but I didn't feel like going
like ------------------- for 20 min, so you're just going to
 have to deal with this. If you have any corrections, just make
 your own tab, don't email me, unless you know any other good
 Sufi bands, in which case, email away!
  -ScotRead

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Readable chord sheet for Paper Hanger by Mewithoutyou

[B]  [B]  [B]  [B]  [B]  [B]  [B]  [B]  [D]  [A]

First Verse.

[B]Not one motion of her gesture could I forget
The prettiest bag lady I ever met[D]
[A]Pushing her [B]cart in the rain

Then gathering plastic and glass

She watched the day pass
Not hour by hou[D]r
[A]But pain by pain[B]

If I was a basket filled with holes

Then she was the sand I tried to hold
And ran out behind m[D]e
As I swung[A] with some invisible hands

[D]I stopped believing, you start to mov[A]e
[D]I stopped my leaving and the better man bloo[A]med

First Chorus.
[B], [E], [A] ([D] if you want)  x4

Second Verse.
[B]If you're still looking for a blanket

Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric
But if you need a tailo[D]r
[A]Then take your [B]torn shirt, and stumble up my stairs

And mumble your pitiful prayers
And in your tangled, knotted sleep[D], our midn[A]ight needles go to wor[B]k

Until all comfort and fear flows in one river
Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whol[D]e
[A]And it makes you shiver

[D]I stopped believing, you start to mov[A]e
[D]I stopped my leaving and the better man bloo[A]med

Second Chorus.
[B], [E], [A] ([D] if you want)  x8

[Ending]
[E], [E], [E], [E], [E], [E], feedback  x4
[E], [E], [E], [E], [E], [E], [A], [A], [B]   x6
[E]  [E]  [E]  [E]  [E]  [E]  [A]
[E]  [E]  [E]  [E]  [E]  [E]

mewithoutYou's is, in my opinion, the best Muslim alt band.
This song's been out since 04, and there still weren't any
chords for it online, so here you go. A tab would be better
for certain parts of this song, but I didn't feel like going
like ------------------- for 20 min, so you're just going to
have to deal with this. If you have any corrections, just make
your own tab, don't email me, unless you know any other good
Sufi bands, in which case, email away!

                                                     -ScotRead

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