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