Lying In State chords by Megadeth

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
|Dm x4

Verse:
Dm
What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization
Dm                             G
Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
Dm         Bb
Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
Bdim           Bb
Attack the body and the head will fall

Post Verse:
Bb     Dm    Bb        Dm
A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
Bb   Dm        Bb      Dm
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

Solo:
|Dm |Dm |Dm |F
|Dm |Dm |Dm |Am

Verse:
Dm                              Em
Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted
Dm                               G
There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
Dm         Bb
A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
Bdim              Bb       Am
That hate the sight of all the ones that do?

Pre Chorus:
Bb  Em   Dm   Bb       Dm
A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
Bb   Dm        Bb      Dm
The enemy of truth is lying there in state

Bridge:
Gm      Eb      Dm
A shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind
  Gm       Eb   Bb Am       G#7
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
   Gm       Eb      Dm
Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change
     Gm     Eb    Bb   Am    G#7
The "new normal" or just more of the same?

Solo 2:
|Gm |Gm Dm |C#m |C#m Gm
|Gm |Gm |C#m |Dm

Bridge 2:
Dm
The perfect plan
Must have an alibi
Dm
And the perfect pawn
To spew the party line
Dm
Of the perfect falsehood
Spoke a thousand times
Dm
The perfect words
Cover the greatest crime

Break:
(Repeat)
|Dm

Outro:
Dm  Am   Eb       Dm
Hell   is turning itself inside out
Am            Dm
To lead its path up to meet us
     Dm
And we deliberately take
Bb   Am    Gm      Dm
A step, one foot closer to the grave
Dm