Lying In State chords by Megadeth

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
|DmDm x4

Verse:
DmDm
What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization
DmDm                             G+G
Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
DmDm         Bb majorBb
Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
BdimBdim           Bb majorBb
Attack the body and the head will fall

Post Verse:
Bb majorBb     DmDm    Bb majorBb        DmDm
A augmentedA lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
Bb majorBb   DmDm        Bb majorBb      DmDm
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

Solo:
|DmDm |DmDm |DmDm |FF
|DmDm |DmDm |DmDm |A minorAm

Verse:
DmDm                              E minorEm
Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted
DmDm                               G+G
There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
DmDm         Bb majorBb
A augmentedA broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
BdimBdim              Bb majorBb       A minorAm
That hate the sight of all the ones that do?

Pre Chorus:
Bb majorBb  E minorEm   DmDm   Bb majorBb       DmDm
A augmentedA lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
Bb majorBb   DmDm        Bb majorBb      DmDm
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

Bridge:
G minorGm      Eb MajorEb      DmDm
A augmentedA shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind
  G minorGm       Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb A minorAm       G#7G#7
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
   G minorGm       Eb MajorEb      DmDm
Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change
     G minorGm     Eb MajorEb    Bb majorBb   A minorAm    G#7G#7
The "new normal" or just more of the same?

Solo 2:
|G minorGm |G minorGm DmDm |C# minorC#m |C# minorC#m G minorGm
|G minorGm |G minorGm |C# minorC#m |DmDm

Bridge 2:
DmDm
The perfect plan
Must have an alibi
DmDm
And the perfect pawn
To spew the party line
DmDm
Of the perfect falsehood
Spoke a thousand times
DmDm
The perfect words
Cover the greatest crime

Break:
(Repeat)
|DmDm

Outro:
DmDm  A minorAm   Eb MajorEb       DmDm
Hell   is turning itself inside out
A minorAm            DmDm
To lead its path up to meet us
     DmDm
And we deliberately take
Bb majorBb   A minorAm    G minorGm      DmDm
A augmentedA step, one foot closer to the grave
DmDm