Megadeth – Lying In State (Guitar)

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[Intro] |Dm x4 [Verse]

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What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization

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Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?

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Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams

Bdim                      Bb
Attack the body and the head will fall

[Post Verse]

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A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?

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The enemy of truth is lying there in state

[Solo] |Dm |Dm |Dm |F |Dm |Dm |Dm |Am [Verse]

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Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted

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There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?

Dm                 Bb
A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?

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That hate the sight of all the ones that do?

[Pre Chorus]

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A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?

Bb     Dm               Bb            Dm
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

[Bridge]

Gm            Eb            Dm
A shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind

   Gm              Eb     Bb  Am             G#7
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize

     Gm              Eb            Dm
Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change

         Gm          Eb       Bb     Am       G#7
The "new normal" or just more of the same?

[Solo 2] |Gm |Gm Dm |C#m |C#m Gm |Gm |Gm |C#m |Dm [Bridge 2]

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The perfect plan

Must have an alibi

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And the perfect pawn

To spew the party line

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Of the perfect falsehood

Spoke a thousand times

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The perfect words

Cover the greatest crime [Break] (Repeat) |Dm [Outro]

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Hell     is turning itself inside out

Am                       Dm
To lead its path up to meet us

          Dm
And we deliberately take

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A step, one foot closer to the grave

Dm
TO THE GRAVE