As The World Bleeds

      D#m        C#
So we blame You
           B                   F#
‘Cause our world’s not come out right
          G#m         D#m
While the devil’s masquerading
      B             C#
As an angel of the light
      D#m    C#
Just imagine
        B                 F#
All the pride and all the nerve
       G#m                     C#                B       F#
To ask where You’ve been, when we’re the ones we serve
G#m                      F#
It’s not a mystery, it’s been foretold
G#m                                      F# E
  But we ignored the warning bell so long ago
                         G#m
There’s a way that seems right unto men
          E                     F#
But we’ll die with the wages of sin


Chorus
       G#m   F#   E   B
As the world lies bleeding
    C#m      G#m       E   F#
The giant is no longer sleeping
         G#m F#  E  B
Poisoned harvest reaping
C#m        G#m        E           F#       G#m
Blindly we just carry on, but the glory is gone
G#m
Gone


Verse 2
G#m                               F#                              G#m
  We live our lives like we could care less what You have to say
                                                           F#         E
Then curse the skies when You don’t come clean up the ugly mess we’ve made
                  G#m                       E                    F#m
But You gave us a choice and we made it and dug ourselves into a hole
G#m                             F#                               G#m
  We always thought we knew the way despite the things You said
                                           F#                 E
We just ignored the pile of bodies and the bloodstains on the bed
                                G#m       E                       F#
Painting ourselves right into a corner as life spiraled out of control


Chorus
       G#m   F#   E   B
As the world lies bleeding
    C#m      G#m       E   F#
The giant is no longer sleeping
          G#m  F#  E  B
All we've sown now reaping
C#m        G#m        E           F#       G#m
Blindly we just carry on, but the glory is gone


- Guitar Riff - (first section - N.C)

C#m C#m C#m C#m

A A A A

C#m C#m C#m C#m

A A G#m B


C#
See us – Our promised land of milk and honey
                           G#m
Became a land of filth and money

Like Babylon and Rome before
G#m
A land of greed and sin and guilt, a stained and scarlet whore
C#                           C#
See us – Living in our ivory towers
                             G#m
Self-appointed kings with no power

Built a monument to man
                                                C#m    B   C#m
We’re passing down empty decrees like a disease across the land


-- Instrumental Break --

C#m E A B C#m

C#m E

A

A B

B C#m

B C#m

C#m E A B C#m

C#m E A B C#m

D#m

D#m

D#m

D#m


Bridge
D#m
This is the system we’ve created

This is the world so devastated
C#
  This is what it looks like when mankind asks You to just leave us alone
D#m
This is the monster now awakened

This is our legacy creation
C#                                    B                       C#m    D#m
  This is the place we end up when we say that we can do this on our own


D#m D#m

D#m D#m

D#m D#m

D#m D#m

D#m


D#m
  This is our masterpiece: corruption

This is our monument: destruction
C#                                   B                   C#      D#m
  Game point of life and death, the nadir of existence painted black

This is the road the Hell we’ve wandered

This is inheritance we’ve squandered
C#
  So raise a glass to all we’ve lost and wonder if we’ll ever get it back

G#m

G#m D#

D# C#

C# D#

D# G#m


G#m

G#m D#

D# C#

C# D#

D# G#m

D#m     A#m
Nations calling
    G#m  A#m D#m
Our will be done
D#m     A#m     G#m A#m D#m
Mankind answers to no one
    A#m           G#m               A#m
But now it has begun (in death, our sin hath borne a son)


Outro
          D#m     C#
Please forgive us
          B            F#
For we’ve only made it worse
     G#            D#m
Even after You had warned us
          B            C#
Sin would only bring a curse
              D#m   C#      B                F#
Guess we knew better, so we went a different way
          G#            C#            B      F#
Now we’re only sleeping in the bed we made
        D#m   C#
All the glory
        B               F#
And the power left this place
        G#                D#m
When we turned our backs upon You
             B              C#
And chose to live in our disgrace
         D#m      C#
But You warned us
        B              F#
And You let us have our way
          G#            C#             B      F#
Now we’re only drowning in the mess we made
G#m   F#     E F#
Blood on our hands
G#m   F#     E F#
Blood on our hands
G#m   F#     E F#
Blood on our hands
G#m   F#
Blood on our
E             G#m
Haaaaaa-aaaaa-aaaands