Bad Religion – Parallel (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] Cm G | Ab G ||x3 Cm G | Ab Bb | G | G [Verse] Cm | Ab Fm |x2
Cm                        | Ab           Fm
   Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space

          | Cm                          | Ab               Eb Bb |
There's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face

Cm                            | Ab                   Fm
   Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in

   | Cm                            | Ab             Eb Bb |
And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins

Cm       | Eb       Bb |
          It will begin
[Pre Chorus]
Cm                 | Bb         Fm
Splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)

Cm          | Bb         Fm
So far from reality (our lives are parallel)

Cm            | Bb            Fm
Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel)

Cm                | Bb          Fm
Separate terms of equality (our lives are parallel)
[Chorus]
     Cm        G|Ab  G x4
Our lives are parallel x4
[Verse 2]
Cm                      | Ab         Fm
  Is there no redemption?   no common good?

        | Cm                               | Ab            Eb Bb |
Is there nothing we can do for ourselves? or only what we should?

Cm                             | Ab           Fm
     Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide

Cm                       | Ab                  Eb Bb |
Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide

Cm       | Eb       Bb |
          They so divide
[Prechorus 2]
Cm                     | Bb             Fm
Side by side suffering loneliness (our lives are parallel)

Cm              | Bb            Fm
Phony collective progress (our lives are parallel)

Cm                 | Bb         Fm
Accepting that it's all such a mess (our lives are parallel)

Cm               | Bb         Fm
Gesturing without hope of redress (our lives are parallel)
[Chorus 2]
     Cm        G|Ab  G x4
Our lives are parallel x4
[Bridge]
Ab           | Bb        | B         |B
Forging little plays of deception and pain

Ab             | Bb       | B      |B
As we watch our foundation crumble away

Ab             | Bb            | B    |Gb
Staggering like birds against a hurricane

    Db            | Ab          |Eb         | Bb
And trying all the while to stay out of each other's

Cm  Bb | Ab  G
way
[Solo] Cm Bb | Ab G [Prechorus 3]
Cm              | Bb          Fm
Broken dreams of unity (our lives are parallel)

Cm            | Bb            Fm
Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel)

Cm                Bb                  Fm
Screaming out for understanding (our lives are parallel)

Cm                | Bb             Fm
Turning inward and suffering (our lives are parallel)
[Chorus and outtro]
Cm     G|Ab  G x4
Parallel x4

                             Cm       G|Ab  G x4
Our lives are parallel (our lives are parallel)

Cm        G|Ab  G x4
Parallel x4