Capo 3rd fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Black top pave-ment cover me
Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller, spreading randomly
There's a distant buzz and low frequency
It tickles my ears, rustles under my feet
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree
Vio-lent-ly
What pretention everlasting peace
Everything must cease
In-sti-tu-tion on the hill
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to unite the people's will
There's a shadow stain on the west facade
It has spray like decay to enshroud the fraud
and the descendents find it oh so odd
Oh so odd
What pretention everlasting peace
Everything must cease
Grave memorial, hewn white stone
Like the comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known
It evokes such pain and significance
What was once reduced to rememberence
And the generations pass without recompense
What pretention everlasting peace
Everything must cease.