Key: D
Introduction:
D G
Is this the New Year or just another night?
D G
Is this the new fear or just another fright?
Em G D G
Is this the new tear or just another desperation?
Bm G
Is this the finger or just another fist?
Bm G
Is this the kingdom or just a hit n' miss?
Em G Bm G
A misdirection, most in all this desperation
D A
Is this what they call freedom?
Bm
Is this what you call pain?
G D
Is this what they call discontented fame?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
Bm G
I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass
Bm G
From broken arms an' broken noses in the back
Em G Bm G
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?
D A
You're pushing till you're shoving
Bm
You bend until you break
G D
Till you stand on the broken fields where our fathers lay
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
D G
When the world caves in
Em F#mA
When the world caves in
D A
There's nothing here worth saving,
Bm
Is no one here at all?
G D
Is there any net left that could break our fall?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm G D
When the sky falls down and the hungry and poor and deserted are found
A Bm
Are you discontented? Have you been pushing hard?
G D
Have you been through and down this broken house of cards?
A
It'll be a day like this one
Bm
When the world caves in
G
When the world caves in
D G D G
When the world caves in
Bm
Is there nothing left now?
G
Nothing left to sing
Bm G
Are there any left who haven't kissed the enemy?
Em G Bm D
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?
A Bm
Just as I could find you, do the wicked never lose?
G D
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?
A
And nothing is okay
Bm
Till the world caves in
G
Till the world caves in
D
Till the world caves in
A
Till the world caves in
Bm
Till the world caves in
G
Until the world caves in
D
Until the world caves in
A
Until the world caves in
Bm
Until the world caves in
G
Until the world caves in
D
Until the world caves in