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.