THEOCRACY - AS THE WORLD BLEEDS CHORDS

Tuning: E A D G B E

As The World Bleeds - As The World Bleeds - Theocracy Verse 1 - N.C Why do we only call Your name when there’s no one else to call? And we only really seek You when our mighty towers fall Why do we say You’ve failed us And You’ve turned Your eyes away When we’re only sleeping in the bed we made? Why do we call for free will, but reject all consequence? Why’s the path we’ve made to Heaven stained with the blood of innocence? Why’d we ignore the warnings that we’ve read and always known And get angry when we reap the things we’ve sown? Verse 1 - Continued

So we ^D#mblame You ^C# ‘Cause our ^Bworld’s not come out^F# right While the ^G#mdevil’s masq^D#muerading As an ^Bangel of the l^C#ight Just i^D#mmagine ^C# All the ^Bpride and all the ^F#nerve To ask ^G#mwhere You’ve been, when ^C#we’re the ones we ^Bserve ^F# ^G#mIt’s not a mystery, it’s ^F#been foretold ^G#m But we ignored the warning bell so long^F# ag^Eo There’s a way that seems ^G#mright unto men But we’ll ^Edie with the wages of ^F#sin

Chorus

As the ^G#mworld ^F#lies ^Eblee^Bding The ^C#mgiant is ^G#mno longer ^Eslee^F#ping Poisoned ^G#mharv^F#est ^Erea^Bping ^C#mBlindly we ^G#mjust carry ^Eon, but the ^F#glory is ^G#mgone ^G#mGone

Verse 2

^G#m We live our lives like we could ^F#care less what You have to say ^G#m Then curse the skies when You don’t come clean up the ugly ^F#mess we’ve ^Emade But You gave us a ^G#mchoice and we made it and ^Edug ourselves into a ^F#mhole ^G#m We always thought we knew the ^F#way despite the things You said ^G#m We just ignored the pile of bodies and the ^F#bloodstains on the ^Ebed Painting ourselves right into a ^G#mcorner as ^Elife spiraled out of con^F#trol

Chorus

As the ^G#mworld ^F#lies ^Eblee^Bding The ^C#mgiant is ^G#mno longer ^Eslee^F#ping All we've ^G#msown ^F#now ^Erea^Bping ^C#mBlindly we ^G#mjust carry ^Eon, but the ^F#glory is ^G#mgone

- 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 Became a land of filth and ^G#mmoney

Like Babylon and Rome before

^G#mA land of greed and sin and guilt, a stained and scarlet whore ^C#See us – Living in our ivory ^C#towers Self-appointed kings with no ^G#mpower

Built a monument to man

We’re passing down empty decrees like a disease ^C#macross ^Bthe ^C#mland

-- 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#mThis 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#mThis is the monster now awakened

This is our legacy creation

^C# This is the place we end up when we ^Bsay that we can do this ^C#mon our ^D#mown

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# Game point of life and death, the n^Badir of existence pa^C#inted bl^D#mack

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#mNations ^A#mcalling Our ^G#mwill ^A#mbe d^D#mone ^D#mMankind ^A#manswers ^G#mto n^A#mo on^D#me But ^A#mnow it has beg^G#mun (in death, our ^A#msin hath borne a son)

Outro

Please for^D#mgive us ^C# For we’ve ^Bonly made it ^F#worse Even ^G#after You had ^D#mwarned us Sin would ^Bonly bring a ^C#curse Guess we knew ^D#mbetter^C#, so we ^Bwent a different ^F#way Now we’re ^G#only sleeping ^C#in the bed we ^Bmade ^F# All the ^D#mglory ^C# And the ^Bpower left this ^F#place When we ^G#turned our backs u^D#mpon You And chose to ^Blive in our dis^C#grace But You w^D#marned us ^C# And You ^Blet us have our^F# way Now we’re ^G#only drowning ^C#in the mess we ^Bmade ^F# ^G#mBlood ^F#on our ^Eha^F#nds ^G#mBlood ^F#on our ^Eha^F#nds ^G#mBlood ^F#on our ^Eha^F#nds ^G#mBlood ^F#on our ^EHaaaaaa-aaaaa-^G#maaaands

Theocracy - As the world bleeds