[Intro: Acoustic Guitar strumming, light drums and bass with piano] [Verse 1: Cynical Vocals, acoustic guitar, steady drums and bass] Walking past the neon signs and paper dreams, Empty eyes behind designer seams, They talk about the better life, but they don’t mean love, Trading souls for silver screens above. [Pre-Chorus: Strings enter as tension starts to build musically] And I try to hold on to something kind, But it slips away in the daily grind, When the hungry cry and the rich pretend, They can’t hear it through the glass they defend. [Chorus: Anthem like vocals with full strings with guitar, bass and drums] Oh, what’s the price of gold When your heart’s grown cold? How much do you pay to lose control? They build their towers high While the lost still sigh, And it’s hard to care when the world goes blind. [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2: Cynical Vocals, acoustic guitar, steady drums and bass] They preach about love on a Sunday morn’, Then count their profits come Monday dawn, A thousand likes for a stranger’s pain, But not a dollar when it starts to rain. [Pre-Chorus: Strings enter as tension starts to build musically] And I’m trying hard just to stay sincere, When the noise of greed fills every ear, Compassion fades in a sea of screens, While the truth gets sold in magazines. [Chorus: Anthem like vocals with full strings with guitar, bass and drums] Oh, what’s the price of gold When your heart’s grown cold? How much do you pay to lose control? They build their towers high While the lost still sigh, And it’s hard to care when the world goes blind. [Instrumental Break] [Bridge: Pleading vocals, stripped with just guitar and piano] Maybe we forgot what love was for, Buried it deep beneath the store, I still believe there’s something pure, But it’s fading… fading more. [Chorus: Anthem like vocals with full strings with guitar, bass and drums] Oh, what’s the price of gold When your heart’s grown cold? How much do you pay to lose control? They build their towers high While the lost still sigh, And it’s hard to care when the world goes blind. [Outro: Same chords as verse to fade out] [Fade Out]
