Paper Wings - Rise Against
Half-Step Down Tuning
Intro/Chorus/Bridge:
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Verse:
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One last thing, I beg you please, just before you go
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I’ve watched you fly on paper wings halfway around the world until they
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Burned up in the atmosphere, and sent you spiraling down
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Landing somewhere far from here with no one else around
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To catch you falling down, and I’m looking at you now
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Landing somewhere far from here with no one else around
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To catch you falling down, and I’m looking at you now
Chorus:
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And I can’t tell if you’re laughing. Between each smile there’s a tear in your eye
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There’s a train leaving town in an hour. It’s not waiting for you, and neither am I.
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Swing for the fences son, he must have told you once
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That was a conversation, you took nothing from so raise your
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Glass now, and celebrate exactly what you’ve done
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Just put off another day of knowing where you’re from.
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You can catch up with yourself if you run
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Just put off another day of knowing where you’re from.
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You can catch up with yourself if you run
Chorus:
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And I can’t tell if you’re laughing. Between each smile there’s a tear in your eye
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There’s a train leaving town in an hour. It’s not waiting for you, and neither am I.
Bridge:
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Is this the life that you lead, the life that’s left for you?
Will you take the road, that’s been laid out before you?
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Will we cross paths somewhere else tonight? Somewhere else.
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And I can’t tell if you’re laughing. Between each smile there’s a tear in your eye
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There’s a train leaving town in an hour. It’s not waiting for you, and neither am I.
