Bm G Remember how it all began, the apple and the fall of man D A The price we paid,so the people say Bm G Down a path of shame it lead us, dared to bite the hand that fed us D A Bm The fairy tale. The moral end. The wheel of fortune never turns again ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Never turns again) ` ` ==VERSE== Bm G The worst of it has come and gone in the chaos of millennium D A In the falling out of the doomsday crowd Bm A G Their last retreat is moving slow, they burn their bridges as they go D A Bm The heretic is beatified, he'll teach the harlot's child to smile ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) ` ` ==VERSE== Bm G Wracked again by indecision, should we make that small incision D A Testify to the bleeding heart inside? Bm G We cut, we scratched, we rent, we slashed and when he opened up at last D A Found a cul-de-sac deep and black of smoke and ash ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Deep and black, smoke and ash) ` ` ==VERSE== Bm G The wicked king of parody is kissing all his enemies D A On the seventh day of the seventh week Bm G The tyrant's voice is softer now, but just for one forgiving hour D A Before the rise of his iron fist again ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Fist again) ` ` ==INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE== F#m D F#m D F#m D A ` ` ==VERSE== Bm G I've come tonight, I've come to know the way we are the way we'll go D A Come to measure this the width of the wide abyss Bm G I come to you in restless sleep where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet D A With voodoo doll philosophies and day-glo holy trinities Bm G The crooked raft that leaves the shore ferries drunken souls aboard D A Pilgrims march to Compestela visions of their saint in yellow Bm G All follow deep in trance, lost in a catatonic dance D A F#m D Know no future, damn the past, blind, warm, ecstatic, safe at last... ` ` ==OUTRO== F#m D (X8)