The Foundations Of Decay

	  		
Intro C#m  C#m/B  C#m/A 
      C#m/G#  F#m  G#4  G# 
      C#m  C#m/B  C#m/A 
      C#m/G#  F#m  G#4  G# 

Verse 1:
C#m      A       B               G#m 
See the man who stands upon the hill 
A              F#m              G#4   G# 
  He dreams of all the battles won 
     C#m      A        B              G#m 
But fate had left its scars upon his face 
A               F#m             G#4  G# 
  With all the damage they had done 

Pre-Chorus
        A         B 
And so time with age 
   G#m        C#m 
It turns the page 
B       A 
Let the flesh 
A                G# 
Submit itself to gravity 

         A 
Let our bodies lay 
         B 
Mark our hearts with shame 
        G#m 
Let our blood in vain 
         C#m         B 
You find God in pain 
   A                            B 
Now, if your convictions were a passing faith 
         G#m                          C#m        B 
May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays 
A                             G#                               C#m 
  And as the vermin crawls we lay in the foundations of decay 


Verse 2:
C#m         A 
He was there 
    B              G#m 
The day the towers fell 
A           F#m                G#4  G# 
  And so he wandered down the road 
    C#m       A 
And we would all 
      B             G#m 
Build towers of our own 
A         F#m               G#4   G# 
  Only to watch the roots corrode 
         A        B 
But it's much too late 
       G#m     C#m   B     A 
You're in the race so we'll press 
A                               G# 
And press till you can't take it anymore 

         A 
Let our bodies lay 
         B 
Mark our hearts with shame 
        G#m 
Let our blood in vain 
         C#m         B 
You find God in pain 
A                            B 
  And if by his own hand his spirit flies 
         G#m                    C#m        B 
Take his body as a relic to be canonized 
   A                         G# 
Now, and so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the whore 


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( D5  C#5  D5  C#5 ) 
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(You look stressed out!) 

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C#m  C#4    C#m 
A-  gainst  faith (Cage all the animals) 
C#m   C#4   C#m 
A-   gainst all life (Cause the message must be pure) 
C#m   C#4   C#m 
A-   gainst change (You can wander through the ruins) 
C#m  C#4  C#m 
We  are   plagued 
                      A 
But the poison is the cure 

B        G#m         C#m   B 
  You must fix your heart 
A        B              G#m             C#m   B 
  And you must build an altar where it swells 
         A                        B 
When the storm it gains, and the sky it rains 
       G#m 
Let it flood, let it flood 
       C#m        B 
Let it wash away 
A                                 B 
  And as you stumble through your last crusade 
         G#m                             C#m           B 
Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays? 
A                                G# 
  And as the swarm, it calls, we lay in the foundations 

        C#m   C#m/B  C#m/A  C#m/G#   A  G#4  G# 
Yes, it co--mforts me--  much-- more 
        C#m   C#m/B  C#m/Bb C#m/G#   A 
Yes, it co--mforts me--  much-- more 
   G#4            G# 
To lay in the foundations of decay 
D5 C#5     D5 C#5   D5 C#5 
       Get       up        coward