Harvest of Souls Lyrics

Intro: 4 bars of A
Long before the living past had ripped it all apart
Something still remained until It flashed back to the start
Where it stands, nobody saw behind the blackest eyes
Show them how you're stronger now it pays to advertise wisely
Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said
For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love, which I now regret
Asus --------- Asus (let ring)
What I'd give to hear again those everlasting songs
Why did all the accidents contrive to fall at once?
Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short
For once in my life I wasn't alone with blood on my hands how could I have known?
Used to be the great white hope once I walked on water
Now I barely stay afloat balance out of order
With every sympathy worn away who can I return to now?
For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon
Searching for a kindred soul, someone to rely upon
We disconnected and Heaven sent sheltered in dead air, hidden everywhere
The sky lights up above America
The world is lost but loves America
When the eyes of children see the ones left standing
And the rest begin to finally understand
The hand of God defends America
And who would not defend America?
We've got light on our side we're in pole position
So praise the Lord and raise the ammunition high
Raise it high
Hide where you can
We will shoot you where you stand
(Section in 7/4 time)
I've walked a million miles upon an open road
And once in every while without the will to carry on
Hours held me too long in one location
An old familiar tale, a glory to behold
A work of genius, the greatest story ever sold
As you sign on the line, as you do what you're told
A G A A-A B-B C-C B-B A-A (played as A progression)
All you sell is your soul
I've been this way before I've seen it many times
Collision on the track the fiction turning into fact
No-one dares to look back, best you start to prepare
For the harvest ahead, all you lose is yourself
I'm brought to life with a series of shocks
I realise that you are gone from my life
And still I cling to the fear of the dark
Don't follow them for they don't care how you are
And I'm finding a way of being
Accepting life all alone
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A way to live on my own
It wasn't hard to believe in the lie
Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault
Why does the world continue to spin
While everything around me grinds to a halt?
And I'm finding a way of being
Accepting life all alone
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A way to live on my own
C#m -- B -- A ? F#
(Instrumental in alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8 then 5/4 time)
(Into crescendo)
F# E-E B-B (x3)
Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb
Shine like a star so bright anybody can see anytime
No-one will want to follow, this will be gone tomorrow
We enter an age of permanent doubt
Where we communicate without words
But I must be heard so I cut through the smoke and the noise
Mine is a real fine line it imagines it's one of a kind
Goodbye to all expression farewell to superstition
We enter an age of permanent doubt
Where we communicate without words
And the noise expands as it covers the lie of the land
Shine like a star so bright ?till we shut out the light, put out the fire
Cut through the smoke and the noise
Lately I've been talking to myself
Been remembering and doing little else
The road ahead is anything but clear
Last time around, where did we go from here?
A(x8 steady march)
E x4 D x2 Ex4
Ex4 D E A E D A
What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong
Anyone can be persuaded given the time, we all scream alone
What about this good for nothing season again? Everything's come and gone
And I can't believe that I'm not watching you I'm in a sorry state
Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can
The words I hardly understand gather round me while I wait
What about those colder cowards arming against lost intelligence?
Anyone who saw me crawling there would have known that I was normal once
Return to ordinary thoughts too young to take the stand
But old enough to kill anyone
HA!
(6/4 Time)
In the days when love divided up the looks
No drastic means were used like rod and hooks
To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed
No augmentation needed to refine
In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice
For plastic is the currency of choice
And beauty born is strictly for the birds
Your cash is fine but credit is preferred
Repeat chords above
When I held myself aloft I walked across the water
Now I barely cut across, lives are getting shorter
And they open up another door to a border far below
For the time that I'm allowed, there's a new horizon
But a soul as cold as ice is nothing to rely upon
If I'm hanging onto angels' wings then I'm safer in the air
Do I still qualify, suspended from on high?
No other sanctuary have I
And when the eyes of children see past the ones left standing
And the time has surely come to understand who we are
Slowly the fires are burning bearing their silent witness
And the living past returns to reap the Harvest of Souls
D Dsus4 D A G D G (to fade)