A Century Ends
David Gray
A Century Ends A - x02220 F#m - 244222 A2 - x02200 C# - x46664 E - 022100 C#7 - x46464 E7 - 020100 F - 133211 D - xx0232 G - 355433 D2 - xx0230 B - 799877 E7sus - 020200 A* - 577655 E7sus (x4) Cast your eyes into the distance Try to focus on it all Find a spirit of resistance Instead of pride before the fall Forge some opposition From disparate strands It ain’t the prettiest position As a century ends Unstable situation Faces made of wax Streams of melting glass Sheets of butchered facts The roar of the machine Hooded hearts and jeweled hands And anger spilling out like gasoline As a century ends Everything I seen everything that I heard Ain’t even the tip of the iceberg Fire down memory lane So pass me my rose tinted glasses again E7sus Through a fog of contradiction Out to the lake of tears See society admiring its own reflection Chase a light that shines and disappears Now be careful what you say cause reality offends Just sit back and let your soul decay E7sus E7 As a century ends E7sus (x4) And its easy to get weary As you fight to get it done ’Gainst a popular theory That it’s over ’fore it’s even begun Strain the limit of compassion Tend a wound that never mends ohhh And honesty still out of fashion As a century ends As a century ends As a century ends * (Repeat & Fade)
