Endgame

[ Intro ] D#m B D#m B D#m B B C# x2 [ Verse 1 ] D#m B and on that day they’ll tell you D#m B that life hummed on with no clue D#m B B C# the warning signs were all dismissed or shouted down D#m so it goes B the kings all failed to tell us D#m B the madmen failed to sell us D#m B B C# on what would then befall the only life we’d know [ refrain 1 ] G#m B were they burning signal fires to guide us to the fields? G#m B C# or building funeral pyres? the outcome of a final appeal [ Chorus 1 ] D#m F# G#m the city lines are down the kerosene’s run out A# C# D#m the fracturing of all we relied upon F# G#m let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again A# C# D#m B D#m B because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone [ Verse 2 ] D#m B D#m B the paranoia gripped us the rain turned engines to rust D#m B B C# the panic set in like a cancer to our hearts D#m spreading through B D#m B we bet on finite genius or prayed for gods to save us D#m B B C# but there was no antidote disease tore us apart [ refrain 2 ] G#m we left bodies in the fields B C# so numb that we forgot how to feel [ Chorus 2 ] D#m F# G#m the city lines are down the kerosene’s run out A# C# D#m the fracturing of all we relied upon F# G#m let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again A# C# because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone [ Bridge ] D#m B G#m D#m he looked at the fields and then his hands C# B all i need is what i have G#m D#m then fell a tear of happiness oh oh oh oh B G#m D#m she watched the world crumble away C# "is this the end of yesterday?" B C# D# "lord i hope so" is all he said B all gone are the old guards G#m D#m gone are the cold cold wars F# B weightless we go forth C# D#m on wings of amnesty C# oh we relied on now [ Chorus 3 ] D#m F# G#m the city lines are down the kerosene’s run out A# C# D#m the fracturing of all we relied upon F# G#m let’s shed this unclean skin and start to feel again A# C# because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone D#m F# no more no more G#m A# no more no more C# D#m no more no more F# no more no more G#m no more no more A# C# D#m the weight that we once felt is gone