Biography:
Bands typically break up after college. People move away, grow apart, or just shrivel up and get jobs. It was good while it lasted, right? But what happens when the music is so good, the band’s listeners so devout, the ambition to keep creating so strong that even the time-draining power of day jobs can’t get in the way? Such is the story of Faded Paper Figures, whose “day jobs” are not exactly easy gigs: Heather Alden is in residency after graduating from medical school (a real doctor!)
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
G D A Em G D A
G D A Em G D A
[Verse 1]
G D
There were still entire empires
A Em
of California highway
G D A
I wanted to share with you.
G D
There were still foothills and fires,
A Em
and breakdowns on the runways,
G D A
I wanted to run with you.
[Chorus 1]
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
[Interlude 1]
G D A Em
E|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------2/4--0--2-----------0---------------|
A|---------------------0-----2------------------|
E|-3-------------------------------0----0-0-2-3-|
[Verse 2]
G D
I was second college bound,
A Em
and dreaming of what could be,
G D A
wanting to move with you.
G D
Watching concrete island towns,
A Em
and skyways full of palm trees
G D A
and walking along with you.
[Chorus 2]
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
[Interlude 2]
Bm Em A
Bm Em A
[Bridge 1]
Bm Em
I found you like a culinary gem
A
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
Bm
I found you as the curtain's coming
Em A
down on a melancholy romcom.
G D
I found you like a culinary gem
A
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
G
I found you as the curtain's coming
D A
down on a melancholy romcom.
[Outro]
G D A
G D A
G D A
G D A
I found you in California.
G D A Em G D A
G D A Em G D A
[Verse 1]
G D
There were still entire empires
A Em
of California highway
G D A
I wanted to share with you.
G D
There were still foothills and fires,
A Em
and breakdowns on the runways,
G D A
I wanted to run with you.
[Chorus 1]
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
[Interlude 1]
G D A Em
E|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------2/4--0--2-----------0---------------|
A|---------------------0-----2------------------|
E|-3-------------------------------0----0-0-2-3-|
[Verse 2]
G D
I was second college bound,
A Em
and dreaming of what could be,
G D A
wanting to move with you.
G D
Watching concrete island towns,
A Em
and skyways full of palm trees
G D A
and walking along with you.
[Chorus 2]
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
G D A
Lost stars are coming on
G D A
Lost causes calling on
[Interlude 2]
Bm Em A
Bm Em A
[Bridge 1]
Bm Em
I found you like a culinary gem
A
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
Bm
I found you as the curtain's coming
Em A
down on a melancholy romcom.
G D
I found you like a culinary gem
A
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
G
I found you as the curtain's coming
D A
down on a melancholy romcom.
[Outro]
G D A
G D A
G D A
G D A
I found you in California.
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