Desolate Isle

[Intro] C#m  G#m  C#m  G#m
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C#m
Where is the peace that they promised we'd find?
G#m
Peace for our cities our children our minds?
A
We are desperate and lost on the winds
C#m
Of ideals that keep changing their course
G#m
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 us to this?
B                                  G#m
If heaven is real why's it easy to miss?
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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
G#m
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
G#m
They believed mysteries that science can't solve
A
But I'm unsure that we're wiser than them

( C#m  B )

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

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Are we so righteous that we can make all the wrongs right?
E                                                    G#m
Are we so enlightened that we can turn darkness to light? (No)
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We're just the cynics proclaiming the flaws
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We aim our polemic at political laws
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We're fighting the symptoms because we can't see
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Our greed is the cause - (Oh yes, 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 world a desolate isle
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We're the problem - every father 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 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 fall
(Here comes the light cast to wipe out the walls)
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We can't keep the waves of time 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 Justice will take us all
(Justice will break us, shake us just in time to see our wretched seeds)

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

No!

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( C#m  A#m   A )
( E  G#m  E  G#m )

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

( E )