C B A G F G
Everywhere you look there was confusion, violence, drama & drugs
C B A G F
So many righteous revolutionaries spouting Utopian love
E A
Everyone shrouded in a purple haze
E A
Then one day they woke up from their dream state
B C
They found themselves no more at peace than before
D
older, meek, and conformed
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a bluster for the soul, a fix for the mind
C G A E F G C G
Empty causes, cling to everything you find
C B A G F G
The shots rang out like popcorn and the chief was hid and rushed out of sight
C B A G F
The mohawk-chain, leather brigade rejoiced maliciously on that night
E A
Someone cried out "fuck the government"
E A
His mates couldn't define what he meant
B C D
So no one gave him the time of day and the scene died away
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a war for the body and an army in the mind
C G A E F G C
Empty causes, losing steam as time goes by
F G C B A
Could it be that everybody selfishly desires
A F C
Their own personal retinue
F G C B A
And the causes are just manifestations of too much time
F D
And far too little to do