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