Cm
Video games train the kids for war 
Army chic in high-fashion stores 
Gm
Law and order's done their job 
Prisons filled while the rich still rob 
Cm
Assassination politics
Violence rules within' our nation's midst 
Gm
Well ignorance is their power tool
You'll only know what they want you to know 
Cm
The television cannot lie
Controlling media with smokescreen eyes
Gm
Nuclear politicians picture show
The acting's lousy but the blind don't know 

D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#           D
Open your eyes...

Cm
They scare us all with threats of war 
So we forget just how bad things are 

Gm
You taste the fear when you're all
alone. They gonna git'cha when you're on your own 

Cm
The silence of conspiracy
Slaughtered on the altar of apathy

Gm
You gotta wake up from your sleep 
'Cause meek inherits earth...six feet deep

D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#                     D             Cm
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya
D#           D
Open your eyes...