In Our Waning Days

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Barbarians camped inside the gates
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Careening clown cars all without br¬akes
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The father of lies in slinky drag arrives
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To take charge of all the venomous snakes
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iPhones iStones turned to bread
    F#m
The starving multitudes are easily fed
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Down at the mall more "blah blah blah"
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Feeds that beautiful face on that empty head

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In our waning days
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We've gotta trust in a lover
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In our waning days
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To help us go on loving others

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Laugh out loud about the boring crowds
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Those bed-sheeted saints sitting up on clouds
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It's the same kind of joke that's a hope that floats
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Down the River Styx one big party boat
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Little tin gods with a jones for praise
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The priests of creation with a world to save
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How proud some are of their right kind of car
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Driving around in a locked and gilded cage

       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
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We've gotta trust in a lover
       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
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To help us go on loving others

A     F#m
A     F#m

A
Grandstanding hauteur in a professor's suit
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A blowhard with a tiny horn and little toot
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More enlightened than Christ with ready advice
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For any sycophant who finds him astute
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Homesick wanderers craving rest
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Clinging to hope as long as they have breath
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Hearts in waiting anticipating
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The arrival of someone who never left

       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
            A
We've gotta trust in a lover
       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
           A
To help us go on loving others
       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
            A
We've gotta trust in a lover
       D D/C#  D/A
In our waning days
           A
To help us go on loving others

A
   In our waning days
F#m
  We need a lover who will not let go
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   In our waning days
F#m
  We need a lover who will bring us home
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   In our waning days
F#m
  We need a lover who will not let go
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   In our waning days
F#m
  We need a lover who will bring us home

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