Key: D minor
Intro 1
Am
Verse 1
And I, I've been blind
And I,. I've learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
Verse 2
Am
I've worked hard all my life
F
Am
Money slips through my hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It's no surprise that I'm
F
Am
Pushing the stone up the hill
Verse 3
Of failure
Am
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
Life that's nothing but unreal
F
Am
Except on the goddamned slaveship
Verse 4
Of failure
Am
I'll drown here trying
To get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I'm laid on with a double share
Of the punishing burden
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Am
Of failure
Verse 5
Am
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have
you been?"
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Am
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
Of failure."
Verse 7
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
F
money
Verse 8
Am
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
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Am
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure
Verse 9
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because Because I've yet to be shown
Verse 10
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Outro 1
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Em
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