01. Afraid Of The World
02. Desperation
03. Lantern in the Window
04. Your Flag (Won t Save You Anymore)
05. Carolina Reaper
06. Light
07. Let it Run
08. Total Black
09. There s a Light
10. How Long is the Road
11. Blow Winds Blow
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04. Your Flag (Won t Save You Anymore)
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Intro]
[Verse]
The time has come for real life
To kick you in the teeth
With the fury of a million bombs
On gridlock underneath
The words that warn are left to chance
Drifting in the breeze
With a mess of dinosaur bones
From faceless factories
[Chorus]
Your flag won’t save you anymore
Keep the ocean from rising up and
Washing away the shore
Keep the sun from bearing down upon
The heads of the idle poor
Your flag won’t save you anymore
Your flag won’t save you anymore
[Verse]
The time has come for a wake up call
But you’re addicted to the dream
Of convenience - right and wrong
And a full blown enemy
Down on four and dead to rights
No hero in the wings
No electric starring role
In the modern sport of kings
[Chorus]
Your flag won’t save you anymore
Keep the baying mob from rioting
On the winding road to war
Keep the blood from raining down upon
The heads of the riled poor
Your flag won’t save you anymore D/Eb
Your flag won’t save you anymore
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05. Carolina Reaper
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Tuning: Standard
Capo: None
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[Verse] G5
Lost in a haze of battered steel G5
Factory corpses - fallow fields G5
Made to reap what others sowed G5
An imminent banquet for the crows G5
The taste of rain knows not your tongue G5
The sound of laughter - stranger still G5
Carolina - do you long for the grandeur G5
Of another age when mountains moved upon command?
Before the bomb rendered soil into sand
[Chorus]
Ooooh-woohoo-oooh
Ooooh-woohoo-oooh
[Verse] G5
Do you believe that gods or men G5
Led you to this viper den? G5
The wilderness cares not for qualms G5
Trivial flags and broken psalms G5
Still you crave old tired lines G5
You poor bag of bones in a tattered coat G5
Carolina, do you long for an answer? G5
The answer lays in the wicked hearts of humankind
Swept up in the craze of a layman’s grand design
[Chorus]
Ooooh-woohoo-oooh
Ooooh-woohoo-oooh
[Instrumental]
[Verse] G5
Critical mass and cruel machines G5
Raped the earth in unity G5
Clinked their glasses - claimed a win G5
They played you like a violin G5
In the dying symphony’s G5
Final opus, you’re a star G5
Carolina, do you long for a future G5
Praying for rain for the farmer in the dell
[Verse] A5D5
They said that I was a heathen A5D5
A leper and Luddite G5
There once was a time I believed them A5D5
Now I’m clothed in golden light
[Chorus] A5D5
Light A5D5
Light G5E5
Won’t let the crones come down on me
[Verse] A5C5E5
They fled to their holds and their havens A5C5B5
With their lovers gold and wines G5
And left me to my own devices D5
In the glow of golden light
[Bridge] D5C5A5C5G#5
When you the rot the night away - the pain is dull D5C5A5C5G#5
Take the sullen pride away - what’s left is null D5C5A5C5G#5
Will you find another way around the sun? D5C5A5C5G#5
Live to die another day by writ or gun?
I was broken clean in two Bb
With overflowing pockets and a well appointed empty home Dm
Was it all for nothing dear?
Curse this wicked tongue of mine Bb
For the hurtful words that flowed and burned as only poison can Dm
In my mind I’m a wreck Bb
But on the surface I’m the typical shell of spit and steel BbD#Gm
Built to win and scared to be alone D#GmBbDm
Alone
I was chasing a great white whale Bb
Of my own invention on the lash and taking on all comers Dm
Those who tread upon my path
Those who dared to call me out Bb
Those who said I couldn’t do a thing with the hand I was dealt Dm
All I saw was total black Bb
All I felt was pinpricks in my pride BbD#Gm
All I ever wanted was to win and never be alone D#GmBbDm
Alone
[Bridge] BbGmDm
When I lay down tonight with another nameless lover BbGmDm
I’ll think of you despite being in the arms of another BbGm
This lesson I have learned will see me to my grave Bb
This burden is well earned GmDm
I’m eternally its slave
How do you sleep? F#mE
When you know what’s yours is someone else’s keep F#m
How can you frame the victim as the cause? E
When you turn the lamp down low
How do you sleep?
[Chorus]
How long is the Road?
How long is the Road? F#mE
That leads me to the promised mother lode F#m
Where I can be free to mend my tired bones E
And lay my head to rest
How will I live? F#mE
I’m all tapped out with no more s to give F#m
This is a case of survival E
If I make it home tonight
How will I live?
[Chorus]
How long is the Road?
How long is the Road? F#mE
That leads me to the promised mother lode F#m
Where I can be free to mend my tired bones E
And lay my head to rest
How long is the road
[Outro] Bb
How long is the Road? Eb
How long is the Road? BbGm
That’s driving me to sensory overload CmGmEb
Where I can be safe to call on someone if I fall? Bb
I’ve no idea how long it takes to walk at my own pace BbEb
How long is the road? BbEb
How long is the road? BbEb
How long is the road? Bb
How long is the road?