Story Of The Year
Wake Up
The Black Swan
2008 Epitaph Records
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Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
C#m - x46654
A - x02220
E - 022100
B - x24442
G#m - 466444
Intro: C#m, C#m-A-C#m-B x4
Verse 1:
C#m
We are alive for a moment
One second in the
great abyss of time
All the bleeding
all the hate
C#m
Just one blink of an eye
A E
All the conflicts it visits
B C#m
dire pain on human life
A E
Are we missing what
B
it is to be alive?
Refrain 1:
A C#m
One by one the pieces fall
E
Until our pride defeats us all
G#m
We learn to live without it
Chorus 1:
C#m
Wake up!
A E
To the sound of
B
this time bomb
C#m
Wake up!
A E B
To it's deafening song
C#m
Wake up!
A E
Cause you don't know what
B C#m A
you've got until it's gone
E
Until it's gone
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Interlude: C#m
Verse 2:
C#m A
Our innocence is a virtue
E
But our arrogance will
B C#m
only leave us blind
A E
Unattended without anyone
B C#m
to save our idle lives
A
Will we find out
E
that everything we
B C#m
know exists inside
A
of a fraction
B
Of a fraction
Refrain 2:
A
One by one the
G#m
pieces fall again
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Chorus 2:
C#m
Wake up!
A E
To the sound of
B
this time bomb
C#m
Wake up!
A E B
To it's deafening song
C#m
Wake up!
A E
Cause you don't know what
B C#m A
you've got until it's gone
E
Until it's gone away
Bridge:
G#m A
One by one the pieces fall
B
Until our pride defeats us all
Yeah!
Guitar Solo: C#m-A-E-B x4
(Repeat Bridge)
Interlude: C#m-A-E-B x2
(Repeat Chorus 1 and Chorus 2)
Outro:
C#m-A-C#m-B x4
