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