Key: E major
Intro 1
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
G#m
Verse 1
F#
The
hour is out of joint
Black sun has risen
And the river of words
Is flowing on through
G#m
The cages of tradition
F#
And they're handing out emptiness
We'll take it 'cause it's given
Free with this plastic innocence
G#m
And these standards of living
F#
Verse 2
Questions lighted questions
Burnin' holes into my head
Hanging like shadows o'er the sun
G#m
Staring out like the eyes of the dead
F#
And sometimes my soul flickers
When the wind of change blows cold
Over the mire of repetition
G#m
Down the corridors of rigmarole
Verse 3
C#
What I say, what I think
What I put down in ink
B
A
F#
I'm only trying to find a way to
E
G#m
understand
C#
And I mean no harm
G#
I'm just searching for calm
B
In the storm of mankind
F#
Verse 4
Do you find it there
In the sea of faces
That drowns you everyday
Or in the silence and rubble
and empty spaces
G#m
Where children and rottweilers play
F#
Is it buried in the praise
Given so cheap
With a meaningless
movement of the jaws
In the looking glass
That flatters you
G#m
Or in the rattle of hollow applause
Verse 5
C#
Blind circle, moon and sun body willing,
B
mind undone
A
One pain ending while an
F#
E
G#m
other begins
C#
Lies, ruin disease
G#
Into wounds like these
B
Let the truth sting
F#
Verse 6
E
From the hub to the limit
F#
Through the urban hollows
E
F#
Out into the poles of the extreme
E
To echo through the numbness
F#
Of these godless minutes
G#
In the shadow of delusion's re
C#
B
gime
F#
And here watching the night As it opens
Verse 7
F#
like a flower
And the day starts to rust
Feeling time pound
Like a silent hammer
B
On this empire of dust
F#
And I'm thinking bout the bullet
And the TV screen, the dollar,
and the clenched fist
And if we're searching for peace
How come we still believe
G#m
In hatred as the catalyst
Verse 8
C#
Oh through the borderline
B
In front and behind
A
One pain ending
F#
E
G#m
While another begin
C#
Lies, ruin disease
G#
Into wounds like these
B
Let the truth sing
F#
G#
Yeah
B
Let the truth
Verse 9
F#
And I feel it from the pit of my stomach
Into the ditch of my mind
G#m
F#
Inside the chambers of my heart
G#m
As I stare half blind
F#
At these walls of cardboard
G#m
F#
At this space that I've rented
G#m
F#
At your beauty that is crumbling
G#m
Though you try so hard to prevent it
Verse 10
C#
On and on
B
Body willing, mind undone
A
One pain ending while an
F#
E
G#m
other begins
C#
Lies, ruin, disease
G#
Into wounds like these
B
F#
G#
Let the truth sting
B
F#
G#
Let the truth sting
B
F#
G#
B
Let the truth sting
Outro 1
F#
B
G#m
B
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