Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
The stars grow dim
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And we gather round our shiny screens
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To say the last goodbye
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In the hope that we might feel something
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Sure gonna miss them
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Is it wrong to cling to the past when
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life comes at you so fast?
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And the sleep of reason
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And the sleep of reason produces
monsters
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Verse 2
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While you walk into town
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An d surrogates keep
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their cap locks on
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To shout each other down
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And expertise and experience
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Get trampled in the mud
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And so it goes
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Guess they had it coming
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Now there's nothing that you can do
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To convince them that it's true
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And the sleep of reason
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And the sleep of reason produces
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Verse 3
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"Move on, just let it go"
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Says a man who flies a confederate flag
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On his profile just for show
point out that things
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Are much too male and white
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Well, he eases of the safety catch
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On his second amendment rights
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And so it goes
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Giving Giving license to all this hate
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Is gonna make our country great
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And the sleep of reason
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason produces
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Verse 4
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In this constant state of what the heck
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But through it all you treat it like
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It's just some kind of joke
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the greatest threat faced by democracy
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Isn't fascism or fanaticism
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But our own complacency
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And so it goes
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For there's simply no guarantee
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Of a happy ending to history
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And the sleep of reason
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason pro
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Produces monsters,
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produces monsters
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