The Foundations Of Decay

[Intro] C#m  C#m/B  C#m/A
        C#m/G#  F#m  G#4  G#
        C#m  C#m/B  C#m/A
        C#m/G#  F#m  G#4  G#

[Primeira Parte]

C#m      A       B               G#m
See the man who stands upon the hill
A              F#m              G#4   G#
  He dreams of all the battles won
     C#m      A        B              G#m
But fate had left its scars upon his face
A               F#m             G#4  G#
  With all the damage they had done

[Pré-Refrão]

        A         B
And so time with age
   G#m        C#m
It turns the page
B       A
Let the flesh
A                G#
Submit itself to gravity

[Refrão]

         A
Let our bodies lay
         B
Mark our hearts with shame
        G#m
Let our blood in vain
         C#m         B
You find God in pain
   A                            B
Now, if your convictions were a passing faith
         G#m                          C#m        B
May your ashes feed the river in the morning rays
A                             G#                               C#m
  And as the vermin crawls we lay in the foundations of decay

[Segunda Parte]

C#m         A
He was there
    B              G#m
The day the towers fell
A           F#m                G#4  G#
  And so he wandered down the road
    C#m       A
And we would all
      B             G#m
Build towers of our own
A         F#m               G#4   G#
  Only to watch the roots corrode
         A        B
But it's much too late
       G#m     C#m   B     A
You're in the race so we'll press
A                               G#
And press till you can't take it anymore

[Refrão]

         A
Let our bodies lay
         B
Mark our hearts with shame
        G#m
Let our blood in vain
         C#m         B
You find God in pain
A                            B
  And if by his own hand his spirit flies
         G#m                    C#m        B
Take his body as a relic to be canonized
   A                         G#
Now, and so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the whore

( D5  C#5  D5  C#5 )
( D5  C#5  D5  C#5 )
( D5  C#5  D5  C#5 )

(You look stressed out!)
         C#m   C#4    C#m
E|------------------------| 
B|-------5~-----3~-----1~-| 
G|-------5~-----4~-----2~-| 
D|------------------------| 
A|--0-0-----0-0----0-0----| 
E|------------------------| 

         C#m   C#4    C#m
E|------------------------| 
B|-------5~-----3~-----1~-| 
G|-------5~-----4~-----2~-| 
D|------------------------| 
A|--0-0-----0-0----0-0----| 
E|------------------------| 


C#m  C#4    C#m
A-  gainst  faith (Cage all the animals)
C#m   C#4   C#m
A-   gainst all life (Cause the message must be pure)
C#m   C#4   C#m
A-   gainst change (You can wander through the ruins)
C#m  C#4  C#m
We  are   plagued
                      A
But the poison is the cure

[Refrão]

B        G#m         C#m   B
  You must fix your heart
A        B              G#m             C#m   B
  And you must build an altar where it swells
         A                        B
When the storm it gains, and the sky it rains
       G#m
Let it flood, let it flood
       C#m        B
Let it wash away
A                                 B
  And as you stumble through your last crusade
         G#m                             C#m           B
Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?
A                                G#
  And as the swarm, it calls, we lay in the foundations

        C#m   C#m/B  C#m/A  C#m/G#   A  G#4  G#
Yes, it co--mforts me--  much-- more
        C#m   C#m/B  C#m/Bb C#m/G#   A
Yes, it co--mforts me--  much-- more
   G#4            G#
To lay in the foundations of decay
D5 C#5     D5 C#5   D5 C#5
       Get       up        coward