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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[Verse]
F Am Dm C
There's a light on the floor
F Am Dm C
Shows your just out the door
[Pre Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
In a Russian film we belong
F Am C
like a gentle jolt of montage
Gm Bb Dm
where the mis-en-scene flies
F Am C
back and forth into your eyes
[Chorus]
F Am Dm
I can hear you writing
C
I read between the lines
F Am Dm
I can hear you writing
C
in pictographic signs
[Interlude]
Gm Bb Dm
F Am C (x2)
[Verse]
F Am C
There are shadows on the wall
F Am Dm C
in the caves where trains crawl
[Pre Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
We can cut our indirect hearts
F Am C
when the edits keep us apart
Gm Bb Dm
When the acetate lies
F Am C
in the darkness of our eyes
[Bridge]
F
All of these memories collide
F
this is the medium tonight
F
you and me editing time (x2)
Dm
All of these memories collide
F
this is the medium tonight
Dm F C
you and me editing time
F Am Dm
All of these memories collide
Dm
this is the medium tonight
F C
you and me editing time
[Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
I can hear you writing
F Am C
I read between the lines
Gm Bb Dm
I can hear you writing
F Am C
in pictographic signs (repeat)
[Outro]
F C
(repeat)
F Am Dm C
There's a light on the floor
F Am Dm C
Shows your just out the door
[Pre Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
In a Russian film we belong
F Am C
like a gentle jolt of montage
Gm Bb Dm
where the mis-en-scene flies
F Am C
back and forth into your eyes
[Chorus]
F Am Dm
I can hear you writing
C
I read between the lines
F Am Dm
I can hear you writing
C
in pictographic signs
[Interlude]
Gm Bb Dm
F Am C (x2)
[Verse]
F Am C
There are shadows on the wall
F Am Dm C
in the caves where trains crawl
[Pre Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
We can cut our indirect hearts
F Am C
when the edits keep us apart
Gm Bb Dm
When the acetate lies
F Am C
in the darkness of our eyes
[Bridge]
F
All of these memories collide
F
this is the medium tonight
F
you and me editing time (x2)
Dm
All of these memories collide
F
this is the medium tonight
Dm F C
you and me editing time
F Am Dm
All of these memories collide
Dm
this is the medium tonight
F C
you and me editing time
[Chorus]
Gm Bb Dm
I can hear you writing
F Am C
I read between the lines
Gm Bb Dm
I can hear you writing
F Am C
in pictographic signs (repeat)
[Outro]
F C
(repeat)
Fahtafat
Fai Baba
Faichecleres
FAID
Faiha
Fairport Convent (...)
Fairuz
Fairweather
Fais
Faith Cuneta