Bad Religion
Cease
The Gray Race (1996)

Capo 1re fret (en Fm)

Em Em D/E  C C B  x 2

Em  D/E  C6  B  x 2  Em  D  B  <  w/ solo

Em       D        C     G
Blacktop pavement cover me
f♯     Em                     A
Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller
C               D
Spreading randomly

          Em      D            C      G
There's a distant buzz and low frequency
   Em         D            C        G
It tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet
       Am                       C     D     C  G  D
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree (violently)

          E5       D5          C6      (P.M.)
  What pretension, everlasting peace
  C  A/C♯  D  B/D♯
  Every thing must cease

Em  D/E  C6  B  x 2  w/ solo

Institution on the hill
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
To ignite a people's will

There's a shadowed stain on the west facade
It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
And the descendants find it oh so odd (oh so odd)

  What pretension, everlasting peace
  Everything must cease

Em   D   C   G   Am   C  D  C  G  D  <  w/ solo

Grave memorial, hewn white stone                           (doux)  
Like the comforting caress of a mother
Or a friend you've always known

It evokes such pain and significance
What was once is reduced to remembrance
And the generations pass without recompense (oh oh oh)

  What pretension, everlasting peace
  Everything must cease

Em  D/E  C6  B  x 3  w/ solo

          Em       D/E         C6    B
  What pretension, everlasting peace
  C  A  D     B
  Every thing must


(Greg Graffin solo: en Cm au piano, finale différente)