Key: E major
Intro 1
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Cm
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Verse 1
Cm
side
Bm
G
A
Earth's fragile atmosphere
D
Cm
Bm
A
Cm
It's clearly apparent that the end is near
D
Cm
Bm
The sleeper wakens and removes
G
A
His golden casque
D
Cm
Bm
A
G
Cm
G
Vital signs return to his quiescent craft.
Gm
Ab
Fm
F5
G
Cm
G
Gm
Ab
Fm
F5
G
Cm
G
He is truth - a word to the wise
Gm
Bb
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F5
God s children are so young
They cannot realise
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Cm
The difference between extinction
G
Gm
Bb
Ab
G
And life is now only a matter
F5
G
Cm
of time.
D
Cm
In the beginning was the knowledge
He had carried far across
C
Cm
The great unknown
millennia have passed since he walked
On the savannah where the seeds
Of life were sown.
C
Cm
Yet even deep in slumber he could hear
C
Cm
His children blunder to
destruction
The caretaker of creation placed a fail- safe
At the heart of his construction.
G
Cm
G
Technologies intended
G
Cm
G
Now they are his masters
Ab
Cm
The trust they place in progress
G
Cm
G
Cm
G
The last days nearer faster.
Cm
G
Cm
G
He is truth - a word to the wise
Gm
Bb
Ab
Fm
God s children are so young
G
Cm
The difference between extinction
G
Gm
Bb
Ab
F5
And life is now only a matter of
G
Ab
Cm
G
Ab
G
Ab
G
time.
Cm
I can see the oceans
Stagnent and overflowing
Filled with man made waste discharged
From my cosmic auditorium
I view this crematorium
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Cm
That is your world at large
My ears hear the wailing of your children
C
Cm
In a future close at hand
Just as it was before - so
it may be again
(If you don't try to understand)...
D
Cm
D
G
The seas will rise before your very eyes
D
G
Cm
G
Until they swallow up the land
Ab
G
If your polar ice caps melt
The cards are dealt
D
Cm
G
And you have died by your own hands
D
Cm
D
I will never help you while you still persist
Cm
G
In acting like you're blameless
I would rather let your spe
D
Ab
cies die forgotten
D
Cm
G
F5
G
So your folly remains nameless.
Cm
G
Cm
G
He is truth - a word to the wise
Gm
G
Gods children are so young
F5
G
They cannot realise
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Gm
Bb
Ab
And life is now only a
F5
G
mat ter of time.
D
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Ab
mortals bend their will
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D
Ab
D
How quick they find the instruments of ill."
Outro 1
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