Rise Against - The Violence Chords

[Intro]

B5

[Verse]

B5
Dancing on the crumbling precipice
The rocks are coming loose just at the edge
       D5
Are we laughing? Are we crying?
       E5
Are we drowning? Are we dead?
Or was it all a dream?

B5

The bombs are getting closer every day
'That can never happen here' we used to say
           D5
Have these wars come to our doorstep?
         E5
Has this moment finally come?
Or was it all a dream?

B5

[Chorus]

           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
       B5                              D5                 
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker? 
           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
   B5                                D5
To become something greater than the violence in our nature?
           G5          A5                      
Are we not good, good enough or was it all a dream?

B5

[Verse 2]

B5
To a pretty time and fate are we condemned
Or maybe we're a book without an end
          D5
We're not stories, we're not actors
      E5
We're awake and in control
And this is not a dream

B5

So can we break this mold
And set in motion something new
           D5
Forgetting what we know
      E5
An evolution overdue
          D5
Fight the current
Pull the ripcord
    E5
Get away!

[Chorus]

           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
       B5                              D5                 
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker? 
           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
   B5                                D5
To become something greater than the violence in our nature?
           G5          A5                      
Are we not good, good enough

B5

[Bridge]

A5
We travel back
To what we take
We need a storm
               B5
Let's pray for rain now
   G5                A5
To wash these roads away
Let's get off track and wander far
                         B5
Same roads reducing destinations
   G5                   A5
Do nothing but show our heart
We're talking in our sleep
                         B5
And sleeping through our lives
                G5                    B5
We dream of the places where we never die
                 G5
We step from the shadows
    B5
And into the light



[Chorus]

           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
       B5                              D5                 
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker? 
           G5                      A5
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
   B5                                D5
To become something greater than the violence in our nature?
           G5    A5                      
Are we not good enough
           B5     D5
Are we not brave enough?
           G5          A5
Are we not good, good enough?
                        B5
Or was it all a dream?