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Cm G | Ab G ||3x Cm G | Ab Bb | G | G Cm | Ab Fm |2x Cm | Ab Fm Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space | Cm | Ab Eb Bb | There's an ocean of unpleasantries we are not prepared to face Cm | Ab Fm Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in | Cm | Ab Eb Bb | And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins Cm | Eb Bb | It will begin Cm | Bb Fm Splintered dreams of unity (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm So far from reality (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Separate terms of equality (our lives are parallel) Cm G|Ab G 4x Our lives are parallel 4x Cm | Ab Fm Is there no redemption? no common good? | Cm | Ab Eb Bb | Is there nothing we can do for ourselves? or only what we should? Cm | Ab Fm Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide Cm | Ab Eb Bb | Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide Cm | Eb Bb | They so divide Prechorus 2 Cm | Bb Fm Side by side suffering loneliness (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Phony collective progress (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Accepting that it's all such a mess (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Gesturing without hope of redress (our lives are parallel) Cm G|Ab G 4x Our lives are parallel 4x Ab | Bb | B |B Forging little plays of deception and pain Ab | Bb | B |B As we watch our foundation crumble away Ab | Bb | B |Gb Staggering like birds against a hurricane Db | Ab |Eb | Bb And trying all the while to stay out of each other's Cm Bb | Ab G way Cm Bb | Ab G Prechorus 3 Cm | Bb Fm Broken dreams of unity (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Independent trajectories (our lives are parallel) Cm Bb Fm Screaming out for understanding (our lives are parallel) Cm | Bb Fm Turning inward and suffering (our lives are parallel) Chorus and outtro Cm G|Ab G 4x Parallel 4x Cm G|Ab G 4x Our lives are parallel (our lives are parallel) Cm G|Ab G 4x Parallel 4x