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Dsus4  D
Waging war
                    Bm
On the arms race of sound

Turn it down
         G
Pull the plug
                   A
Imminent surrender
                        D
Ringing in the new Dark Age
                    Bm
Shut down the noise-aholics
                    G
Put down the quiet-ophobics
                       A
In a daydream of peace
                        G
In a calmness too brief
   A    D        Bm  Bm  G
My lullaby is killing
   A    D        Bm  Bm  G
My lullaby be stilling
   A        D          Bm  Bm
It could be such sweet silence
     G           A
From static from violence from...

Bm                          G
(Volume is the modern currency
Bm                         G
Everyone competing for air space)


Bm
Everybody's dumb
Bm                                       G
Shouting muddled words as though they're deaf


Bm                            G
(Big brother isn't watching anymore
Bm                             G
He knows we are distracted and absorbed)


Bm                                           G
Broadcasting our grief Our imagination's atrophied
A7
We can't think
D                             Bm
If I could sing them all to sleep
                       G
If I could sing myself deaf
                   A
Wouldn't it be lovely?
                         
Doesn't it sound perfect?


Bm                          G
(Every generation hates the next
Bm                              G
I will save the millions from a slow insufferable death)


Bm 
I'll put them to sleep
                               G
Save them from progressive misery
A7
I'm counting
D                           Bm
If I could sing myself to sleep
                       G
If I could sing myself deaf
                   A
Wouldn't it be lovely?
                         D
Doesn't it sound perfect?


Solo: D, Bm, G, A, G


   A    D       Bm  Bm  G
My lullaby is killing
   A    D       Bm  Bm  G
My lullaby be stilling
   A
Memorized
Bm     D      G       A              Bm
Involuntary I think I can change the world