Cease

[Intro]
Fm Eb Db C Fm Eb Db C
Fm Eb Db C Fm Eb Db C
Fm Eb
C

[Verse 1]
Fm       Eb       Db    Ab
Blacktop pavement cover me,
G      Fm                     Bbm
Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller
Db              Eb
Spreading randomly.
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There's a distant buzz at low frequency
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It tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet
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And it shakes the leaves off of every tree
Db Ab  Eb
Violently.

[Chorus]
        Fm       Eb          Db
What pretension, everlasting peace,
Bbm  Eb    C    Fm    Eb
Everything must cease.

[Break]
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[Verse 2]
Fm   Eb     Db     Ab
Institution on the hill,
G      Fm                       Bbm
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
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To ignite a people's will.
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There's a shadowed stain on the west facade,
       Fm            Eb       Db         Ab
It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
        Eb                  Db    Eb
And the descendants find it oh so odd.
Db  Ab Eb
Oh, so odd.

[Chorus]
        Fm       Eb          Db
What pretension, everlasting peace,
Bbm  Eb    C    Fm
Everything must cease.

[Solo]
Eb Db Ab Bbm
Db Eb Db Ab C

[Verse 3]
Fm      Eb      Db         Ab
Grave memorial, hewn white stone,
G        Fm                     Bbm
Like the comforting caress of a mother
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Or a friend you've always known.
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It evokes such pain and significance,
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What was once is reduced to rememberance
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And the generations pass without recompense.
Db  Ab  Eb
Ah, ah, ah.

[Chorus]
        Fm       Eb          Db
What pretension, everlasting peace,
Bbm  Eb    C    Fm    Eb
Everything must cease.

[Outro]
Db C Fm Eb Db C Fm Eb
Db C        Fm
    What pretension,
Eb           Db      C
  everlasting  peace,
Bbm  Eb    C
Everything must