D D
One by one The stars grow dim
F#
And fall out of the sky
E
And we gather round our shiny screens
To say the last goodbye
D. D
In communion with a bunch of folks
D F#
That we don't know or see
E
In the hope that we might feel something
In place of empathy
D
And so it goes
E A
Sure gonna miss them
G G/F# E F# B
Is it wrong to cling to the past when life comes at you so fast?
G G/F# E A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
G G/F# E D B A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 2]
D D
Lies ride in style on a big red bus
F#
While you walk into town
E
And surrogates keep their cap locks on
D
To shout each other down
D D
And the levies that protected truth
F#
Can no longer hold the flood
E
And expertise and experience
Get trampled in the mud
D
And so it goes
E A
Guess they had it coming
G G/F# E
Now there's nothing that you can do
F# B
To convince them that it's true
G G/F# E A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
G G/F# E D B A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 3]
D D
It's over now, you've lost, my friend
F#
"Move on, just let it go"
E
Says a man who flies a confederate flag
On his profile just for show
D D
And when he hears someone point out that things
F#
Are much too male and white
E
Well, he eases of the safety catch
On his second amendment rights
D
And so it goes
E A
And the kids are alt-right
G G/F# E
Giving license to all this hate
F# B
Is gonna make our country great
G G/F# E A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
G G/F# E D B A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 4]
D D
In this constant state of what the heck
F#
Just happened, you feel woke
E
But through it all you treat it like
It's just some kind of joke
D D F#
And in the end, the greatest threat faced by democracy
E
Isn't fascism or fanaticism
But our own complacency
D
And so it goes
E. A
Best pay attention
G G/F# E
For there's simply no guarantee
F# B
Of a happy ending to history
G G/F# E A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
G G/F# E D B A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
