Golden Age

[Intro ]Riff 

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    A decade in the wilderness....how did it ever come to this.. 

took all we had to just survive, 
no time left for asking why. 

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2nd verse 
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  St. Virginia saved your life... and angel and a kitchen knife. 


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   and when the devil tests your will...... you kill who you have to kill. 


Chorus 


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      God loves a madman..                      I wore his patience through... 

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   It's too much... to ask of anyone....        I could never be as strong as you(repeat  
twice into riff) 


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verse3 

All we are is vanity 
Comics playing tragedies 
I traded in my sanity 

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For a dream that'd soon abandon me        Chorus "God loves..." 

Chorus. 

Riff+ vocal accompaniment (twice over) 

Bridge 

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   Walls, and barricades...    Surround our Golden Age,..... 


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       We will return..... 


(picked in same pattern as above) 
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Someday 


We will return... 


ooh, 

Walls and barricades, surround our Golden age, 

end on 
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       We will return.....