Kunci: F major
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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Caught a train from Alexandria
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Just a broken man in flight
Running scared with his devils
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Saying prayers all through the night
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Oh but mercy can't find him
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Not in the shadows where he calls
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Forsaking all his better angels
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That's how every empire
Interlude 1
falls
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Verse 2
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The bells ring out on Sunday
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mornng
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Like echoes from another time
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All our innocence and yearning
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And sense of wonder left behind
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Oh gentle hearts remember
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What was that story? Is it lost?
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For when religion loses vision
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That's how every empire falls.
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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He toasts his wife and all his family
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The providence he brought to bear
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They raise their glasses in his honor
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Although this union they don't share
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A man who lives among them
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Was still a stranger to them all
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For when the heart is never open
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That's how every empire falls
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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Padlock the door and board the
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windows
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Put the people in the street
"It's just my job,"
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he says "I'm sorry."
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And draws a check, goes home to eat
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But at night he tells his woman
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"I know I hide behind the laws."
She says, "You're only taking
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orders."
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That's how every empire
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falls.
Interlude 4
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Verse 5
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A bitter wind blows through the country
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A hard rain falls on the sea
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If terror comes without a warning
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There must be something
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we don't see
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What fire begets this fire?
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Like torches thrown into the straw
If no one asks,
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then no one answers
That's how every em
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pire falls.
Outro 1
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