Key: E major
Intro 1
F#
B
G#m
F#
E
B
E
B
G#m
F#
E
B
F#
B
G#m
F#
E
B
E
B
F#
G#m
F#
E
B
Verse 1
B
Well, it's not so easy now
G#m
Though it never was back then
F#
We still can't seem to work this out
E
B
But you can still pretend
E
And these tattered walls and
burning bridges
B
G#m
Quickly start to fall
F#
E
B
How long until there's nothing left at all?
Verse 2
B
I've been to California, man
G#m
I've seen them city lights
F#
Been stranded in the desert
E
B
Scorching days and freezing nights
E
And I'll never understand
B
G#m
Why people try to walk so tall
F#
How long until there's
E
B
nothing left at all?
Verse 3
E
B
Don't you love what you got used to?
E
F#
B
When we used to feel so free
E
B
Won't you wait a while in silence,
F#
G#m
F#
love
E
F#
Watch it fall with me
Interlude 1
E
B
G#m
F#
E
B
E
B
G#m
F#
E
B
Verse 4
B
Well, the old men said
the great Big Apple's
G#m
Rotten to the core
F#
With Wall Street skimming from the till
E
B
While no one minds the store
E
And how could someone get so low
B
F#
G#m
In a building so damn tall?
F#
How long until there's
E
B
nothing left at all?
Verse 5
B
While chunks the size of Delaware
G#m
Are falling off the poles
F#
Our heads are buried in the sand
E
B
Our leaders dug the hole
E
Like junkies hooked on fossil fuel
B
G#m
Headin' for withdrawal
F#
How long until there's
E
B
nothing left at all?
Verse 6
E
B
Don't you love what you got used to?
E
F#
B
When we used to feel so free
E
B
Come and wait a while in silence,
F#
G#m
F#
love
E
And watch it fall with me
Interlude 2
E
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
E
B
E
B
F#
G#m
F#
E
B
G#m
F#
E
B
E
B
G#m
F#
E
B
Verse 7
B
Now the answers in our heads
G#m
To the questions that were asked
F#
It boils up from underground
E
G#m
B
And leads us to the past
E
To a place that's long forgotten
B
G#m
When we had enough for all
F#
E
B
How long until there's nothing left at all?
F#
Interlude 3
G#m
F#
E
B
E
F#
G#m
F#
E
B
Verse 8
E
B
Don't you love what you got used to?
E
F#
B
When we try to make our stand
E
The hourglass is growing
B
F#
G#m
F#
empty now
E
Just to leave a pile of sand
Outro 1
(watch it fall)
E
B
E
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