Desolate Isle - Attalus Chords
Chords: C#m, G#m, A#m, A, B, G#, E, F#m, B/D#, A/C#
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Genre: experimental, electronic, ambient
[Intro]
C#m G#m C#m A#m
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
A C#m
So why does the tide always brings us to this?
B G#m
If heaven is real why’s it easy to miss?
A C#m
I want life but I’m content to exist
G#m G#
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
C#m
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
A C#m
We look at the world through a narrower lens
B G#m
We follow our reason and stop where she ends
A C#m
We put faith in our senses and forsake common sense
G#m G#
It’s disorder but we call it a new world order
G#m
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)
C#m G#m
We’re just the cynics proclaiming the flaws
F#m C#m B
We aim our polemic at political laws
A C#m
We’re fighting the symptoms because we can’t see
G#m G#
Our greed is the cause - (Oh yes, our greed is the cause)
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