Rise Against - The Violence Chords

[Verse 1]
Bm
Dancing on the crumbling precipice

The rocks are coming loose just at the edge
          D
Are we laughing? Are we crying?
          Em
Are we drowning? Are we dead?

(G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)

Or was it all a dream?

Bm
The bombs are getting closer everyday

'That can never happen here' we used to say

            D
Have these wars come to our doorstep?

           Em
Has this moment finally come?

(G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)

Or was it all a dream?

[Chorus]
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm                            Asus4
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm
To become something greater
Asus4
Than the violence in our nature?
G                        Em               (G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)
Are we not good, good enough or was it all a dream?

[Verse 2]
Bm
To a predetermined fate, are we condemned?

Or maybe we're a book without an end?

D
We're not stories, we're not actors
Em
We're awake and in control

(G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)
And this is not a dream

Bm
So can we break this mold?

And set in motion something new
D
Forgetting what we know
Em
An evolution overdue
D
Fight the current

Pull the ripcord
Em
Get away!

[Chorus]
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm                            Asus4
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm
To become something greater
Asus4
Than the violence in our nature?
G                        Em               (G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)
Are we not good, good enough or was it all a dream?

[Bridge]
A6

We travel back

To what we take

We need a storm
                Bm
Let's pray for rain now
G
To wash these roads away
A6
Let's get off track and wander far
                     Bm
Same roads reducing destinations
                     G
Do nothing but show our heart
A6
We're talking in our sleep
                         Bm
And sleeping through our lives
                  G                    Bm
We dream of the places where we never die
                    Bm
We step from our shadows
A6
And into the light

[Chorus]
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm                            Asus4
Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?
G                        A6
Are we not good enough? Are we not brave enough?
Bm
To become something greater
Asus4
Than the violence in our nature?
G                        Em               (G string: 2 2 2 0 4 2)
Are we not good, good enough or was it all a dream?