Architects

Am C Are there no fighters left here any more? Am C Are we the generation we've been waiting for? F Or are we patiently burning C G Am G (2 fast double strums with palm mute) Waiting to be saved? Am C Our heroes and icons have mellowed with age Am C Following rules that they once disobeyed F They're now being led C G Am G When they used to lead the way F C Do you still believe in all the things G Am that you stood by before? F C Are you out there on the front lines G Am Or at home keeping score? F C G Am Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate? F G Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create? Am C They laid out the blueprints, they poured down a base Am C Concrete solutions to slow our decay F And when they are gone C G Am G (2 fast double strums with palm mute) Who the f*ck's gonna take their place? Am C Will it be the cynics, the critics galore? Am C Cliche apathetic passed out on the floor F C G Am G The trusting complicit who collectively ignore F C Do you still believe in all the things G Am that you stood by before? F C Are you out there on the front lines G Am G Or at home keeping score? F C G Am Do you care to be the layer of the bricks that seal your fate? F G Or would you rather be the architect of what we might create? Am Don't you remember when you were young Am F And you wanted to set the world on fire? G Am Somewhere deep down, I know you do Am And don't you remember when we were young Am F And we wanted to set the world on fire? G Am Because I still am and I still do F C G Am Make no mistake we are not afraid F C To bear the burden of repeating G Am What they're thinking anyway F C G Am Let's raise the stakes on the bet we made F C Let's decide to be the architects G Am The masters of our fate F C Yeah we still believe in all the things G Am that you stood by before F C And after everything we've seen here G Am Maybe even more F C G Am And I know we're not the only ones we were not the first F G Am Unapologetically we'll stand behind each word