Owl City - Paper Tigers (Demo) lyrics

[Verse 1] Well I've been huddled up alone By the fire even though I'm not exactly feeling cold And I've been bundled up for days Too confused to be amazed At all the icy water in my veins Why do I feel so alone? Yeah I've been moving in and out Of this old split-level house And I'd just as soon burn the whole place down Because I quit working lumberyards To build a mansion out of cards But I feel thin behind these paper walls Why do I feel so alone? [Chorus] Because the angriest bark is always worse than the bite Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn't invite But if the prettiest romance isn't perfectly right That makes every love lost just a holiday every night [Verse 2] Well I've been painting through the night In the basement out of sight Brushing paper tigers black and white Because come tomorrow afternoon I'll fill a helium balloon And set them free into the baby blue sky So they won't have to be alone [Chorus] [Bridge] But when I close these heavy lids after dark Each sweet dream is a target And all my shots are so consistently wide of the mark [Chorus] [Outro] Just a holiday every night[x3] Well I've been huddled up alone By the fire even though I'm not exactly feeling cold But how my heartache hit the trail When a paper tiger tail Fluttered down, I guess I'll never know