Intro: 4 bars of A A C Long before the living past had ripped it all apart A Fmaj7 Something still remained until It flashed back to the start A C Where it stands, nobody saw behind the blackest eyes A Fmaj7 Em7 Show them how you're stronger now it pays to advertise wisely D E) C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7 Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7 For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love, which I now regret Asus --------- Asus (let ring) A C What I'd give to hear again those everlasting songs A Fmaj7 Why did all the accidents contrive to fall at once? D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7 Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7 For once in my life I wasn't alone with blood on my hands how could I have known? Am -------------- Dm Am Dm Used to be the great white hope once I walked on water Am Dm Now I barely stay afloat balance out of order Ab Gm Fm Bb With every sympathy worn away who can I return to now? Am Dm For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon Am Dm Searching for a kindred soul, someone to rely upon Ab Gm Fm Bb We disconnected and Heaven sent sheltered in dead air, hidden everywhere D A G D A The sky lights up above America D A G D A The world is lost but loves America Bm G Bm A When the eyes of children see the ones left standing Bm A G A And the rest begin to finally understand D A G D A The hand of God defends America D A G D A And who would not defend America? Bm Bm A We've got light on our side we're in pole position Bm A G A D So praise the Lord and raise the ammunition high D ---- C ---- Bb --- A C G D Raise it high D ---- C ---- Bb --- A ---- Eb ---- E Hide where you can We will shoot you where you stand (Section in 7/4 time) E I've walked a million miles upon an open road Bm And once in every while without the will to carry on A Bm C Hours held me too long in one location E An old familiar tale, a glory to behold Bm A work of genius, the greatest story ever sold A Bm C A As you sign on the line, as you do what you're told A G A A-A B-B C-C B-B A-A (played as A progression) All you sell is your soul E I've been this way before I've seen it many times Bm Collision on the track the fiction turning into fact A Bm C A No-one dares to look back, best you start to prepare A G A G A C#m For the harvest ahead, all you lose is yourself C#m -- B -- A -- G#m C#m B A G#m I'm brought to life with a series of shocks C#mF#m A G#m I realise that you are gone from my life C#m B A G#m And still I cling to the fear of the dark C#m F#m A G#m Don't follow them for they don't care how you are AB GAm And I'm finding a way of being AB G#m C#m Accepting life all alone AB GAm And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing AB G#m C#m A way to live on my own C#m B A G#m It wasn't hard to believe in the lie C#m F#m A G#m Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault C#m B A G#m Why does the world continue to spin C#m F#m A G#m While everything around me grinds to a halt? AB GAm And I'm finding a way of being AB G#m C#m Accepting life all alone AB GAm And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing AB G#m C#m A way to live on my own C#m -- B -- A -- G#m 2 C#m -- B -- A ? F# (Instrumental in alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8 then 5/4 time) C#EC#m Eb B C#m B C#m (x2) AFEb CECEb BCBC#m A C#m (Into crescendo) F# E-E B-B (x3) F# C#m F# B C#m F# F# Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb F# C#m F# B C#m F# Shine like a star so bright anybody can see anytime F# G#m F# B No-one will want to follow, this will be gone tomorrow F# E F# We enter an age of permanent doubt B F# Where we communicate without words E B F# E B F# F# But I must be heard so I cut through the smoke and the noise F# C#m F# B C#m F Mine is a real fine line it imagines it's one of a kind F# G#m F# B Goodbye to all expression farewell to superstition F# E F# We enter an age of permanent doubt B F# Where we communicate without words C#m F# B E F# F# And the noise expands as it covers the lie of the land F# E B F# E B E Shine like a star so bright ?till we shut out the light, put out the fire F# E F# F# Cut through the smoke and the noise F# G F# Lately I've been talking to myself E F# G# Been remembering and doing little else F# G F# The road ahead is anything but clear E F# G# Last time around, where did we go from here? GFGAEb A(x8 steady march) A x 4 D Bb G A A x 4 Bb C G A E x4 D x2 Ex4 Ex4 D E A E D A A Dm Bb C G What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong A Dm Bb C G Anyone can be persuaded given the time, we all scream alone A Dm Bb C G What about this good for nothing season again? Everything's come and gone A Dm Bb C G And I can't believe that I'm not watching you I'm in a sorry state E Dm Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can E Dm E C A The words I hardly understand gather round me while I wait 3 A Dm Bb C G What about those colder cowards arming against lost intelligence? A Dm Bb C G Anyone who saw me crawling there would have known that I was normal once E Dm E Dm Return to ordinary thoughts too young to take the stand E Dm But old enough to kill anyone HA! (6/4 Time) Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am Am F In the days when love divided up the looks F# G No drastic means were used like rod and hooks Em F To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed D Eb No augmentation needed to refine Am F In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice F# G For plastic is the currency of choice Em F And beauty born is strictly for the birds D Eb Your cash is fine but credit is preferred Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am Repeat chords above Am Dm When I held myself aloft I walked across the water Am Am Now I barely cut across, lives are getting shorter G# Gm F Bb And they open up another door to a border far below Am Dm For the time that I'm allowed, there's a new horizon Am Dm But a soul as cold as ice is nothing to rely upon G# Gm F Bb Bb If I'm hanging onto angels' wings then I'm safer in the air Cdim Bbdim Do I still qualify, suspended from on high? Bb5 D No other sanctuary have I DDDAGDG DDDAGDA Bm G Bm A And when the eyes of children see past the ones left standing Bm G D G D And the time has surely come to understand who we are DDDAGDG DDDAGDA Bm G Bm A Slowly the fires are burning bearing their silent witness Bm G D G A D And the living past returns to reap the Harvest of Souls D Dsus4 D A G D G (to fade)