Desolate Isle

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Where is the peace that they 
promised we'd find?
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Peace for our cities our children 
our minds?
A
We are desperate and lost on the 
winds
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Of ideals that keep changing their 
course
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Utopian dreamers only bring us new 
wars
A
We are desolate at another dead end

( C#m  B )

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So why does the tide always brings
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 us to this?
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If heaven is real why's it easy to 
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miss?
A                               C#m
I want life but I'm content to exist
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Without knowing my purpose

C#m
Where are the prophets the priests 
and the kings
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Who looked beyond nature for the 
nature of things?
A
They've been ignored
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And called primitive men cause their
 theories weren't fully evolved
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They believed mysteries that science
 can't solve
A
But I'm unsure that we're wiser than
 them

( C#m  B )

A                            
We look at the world through a 
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narrower lens
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B                                 
We follow our reason and stop 
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where she ends
A                            
We put faith in our senses and 
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forsake common sense
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It's disorder but we call it a new
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 world order

Are we so righteous that we can make
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 all the wrongs right?
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Are we so enlightened that we can 
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turn darkness to light? (No)
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We're just the cynics proclaiming 
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the flaws
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We aim our polemic at political laws
A                                 
We're fighting the symptoms 
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because we can't see
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Our greed is the cause - (Oh yes, 
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our greed is the cause)

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We stand as judges when we should be
 standing on trial
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We're the ones who make this 
        B
world a desolate isle
A                          C#m   
We're the problem - every father 
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every mother every child

But the truth is we've grown to love
 the exile

( C#m )

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On this rock we've taken our stand
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Joined by the leagues of men now 
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buried in sand
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Babylon - we'll build her again
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The great city of man
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But this time we'll be sure she will
 stand!
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But on this rock the castles will 
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fall
(Here comes the light cast to wipe 
out the walls)
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We can't keep the waves of time
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 from reaching the walls
(Oh dear humanity, where is your 
sanity?)
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Every man - the great and the small
(And the women and the children)
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When the Tide overtakes us 
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Justice will take us all
(Justice will break us, shake us 
just in time to see our wretched 
seeds)

Are we so righteous that we can make
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 all the wrongs right?
E                                 
Are we so enlightened that we can 
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turn darkness to light?
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Are we so righteous that grace 
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doesn't have any worth?
E       B/D#    A/C#       B   
Are we so enlightened that we 
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can build heaven on earth?

No!

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Are we so righteous grace has no 
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longer has worth?
(Who can save us?)
E                                 
Are we so enlightened that we can 
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build heaven on earth?
(Who can save us?)
E                                 
Are we so righteous we can make 
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all the wrongs right?
(Who can save us?)
E                                 
Are we so enlightened we can turn 
              G#m
darkness to light?
(Who can save us?)
A                     Am         
Are we convinced that we can save
       E
 ourselves?

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