Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Cast your eyes into the distance
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Try to focus on it all
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Find a spirit of resistance
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Instead of pride before the fall
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Forge some opposition
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From disparate strands
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It ain't the prettiest position
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As a century ends
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Verse 2
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Unstable situation
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Faces made of wax
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Streams of melting glass
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Sheets of butchered facts
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The roar of the machine
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Hooded hearts and jeweled hands
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An d anger spilling out like gasoline
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As a century ends
Verse 3
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Everything I seen,
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Everything that I heard,
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Ain't even the tip of the iceberg
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Fire down memory lane
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So pass me my rose tinted glasses again
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Through a fog of contradiction
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Out to the lake of tears
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See society admiring its
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own reflection
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Chase a light that shines an
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d disappears
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Careful what you say
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'cause reality offends
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Just sit back and let your soul decay
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As a century ends
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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And it's easy to get weary
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As you fight to get it done
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'Gainst a popular theory
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That it's over
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'Fore it's even begun
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Strain the limit of compassion
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Tend a wound that never
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mends
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And honesty's still out of fashion
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As a century ends
Outro 1
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