Intro
D#m A#m D#m Cm
D#m
Where is the peace that they promised we’d find?
A#m
Peace for our cities our children our minds?
B
We are desperate and lost on the winds
D#m
Of ideals that keep changing their course
A#m
Utopian dreamers only bring us new wars
B
We are desolate at another dead end
D#m C#
B D#m
So why does the tide always brings us to this?
C# A#m
If heaven is real why’s it easy to miss?
B D#m
I want life but I’m content to exist
A#m A#
Without knowing my purpose
D#m
Where are the prophets the priests and the kings
A#m
Who looked beyond nature for the nature of things?
B
They’ve been ignored
D#m
And called primitive men cause their theories weren’t fully evolved
A#m
They believed mysteries that science can’t solve
B
But I’m unsure that we’re wiser than them
D#m C#
B D#m
We look at the world through a narrower lens
C# A#m
We follow our reason and stop where she ends
B D#m
We put faith in our senses and forsake common sense
A#m A#
It’s disorder but we call it a new world order
A#m
Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right?
F# A#m
Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light? (No)
D#m A#m
We’re just the cynics proclaiming the flaws
G#m D#m C#
We aim our polemic at political laws
B D#m
We’re fighting the symptoms because we can’t see
A#m A#
Our greed is the cause - (Oh yes, our greed is the cause)
D#m A#m
We stand as judges when we should be standing on trial
G#m D#m C#
We’re the ones who make this world a desolate isle
B D#m A#m A#
We’re the problem – every father every mother every child
But the truth is we’ve grown to love the exile
D#m
D#m A#m
On this rock we’ve taken our stand
G#m A#m
Joined by the leagues of men now buried in sand
D#m A#m
Babylon – we’ll build her again
G#m
The great city of man
A#m A#
But this time we'll be sure she will stand!
D#m A#m
But on this rock the castles will fall
(Here comes the light cast to wipe out the walls)
G#m A#m B D#m A#m A#
We can’t keep the waves of time from reaching the walls
(Oh dear humanity, where is your sanity?)
D#m A#m
Every man – the great and the small
(And the women and the children)
G#m A#m B D#m A#m A#
When the Tide overtakes us Justice will take us all
(Justice will break us, shake us just in time to see our wretched seeds)
A#m
Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right?
F# A#m
Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light?
F# G#m A#m D#m A#m
Are we so righteous that grace doesn’t have any worth?
F# C#/F B/D# C# A#m
Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth?
No!
D#m A#m x3
D#m Cm B
F# A#m x2
F# A#m
Are we so righteous grace has no longer has worth?
(Who can save us?)
F# A#m
Are we so enlightened that we can build heaven on earth?
(Who can save us?)
F# A#m
Are we so righteous we can make all the wrongs right?
(Who can save us?)
F# A#m
Are we so enlightened we can turn darkness to light?
(Who can save us?)
B Bm F#
Are we convinced that we can save ourselves?
E
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