Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

All we are is entertainment

caught up in our own derangement

Tell us what to say and what to do

All we are are pretty faces,

picture perfect bottled rage

Packaged, synthesized versions of you

Chorus

We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life

 Confined to pull out quotes in hotel rooms

 They all scream California and it's toppling empire

 But can't you see the end is coming soon?

Interlude

Verse

 Come one, come all, the new sensations

guarantees then obligations

Spotlights follow every single move

Basking here on ten foot stages,

pouty lips and oh so jaded

All as if we have something to prove

Chorus

Despite these petty fortunes we still can't afford a life

 Confined to pull out quotes in hotel rooms

 They all scream California and it's toppling empire

 But can't you see the end is near?

Bridge i

Bridge ii

 And if we cared at all about this unknown plight

 Then we'd do something more to finally make this right

Bridge iii

3/4 time, on the first quarter note you A

string is played, on the last two quarters, play the G

and the H string twice. Also, play staccato for more

intense 3/4 feeling)

Is this only entertainment? Pull the curtains, places please

 We learned to sing and dance and cry on cue

 But this is more than entertainment in a world so sick with pain

 This is the only thing that's real or true

Chorus

 We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life

 Confined to pull out quotes in hotel rooms

 They all scream bloody murder over graves already dug

 But can't you see the end?

Outro