[The Band: Electric guitars sustain, bends, melodic phrasing, grit, blues attack lead, and open tuned slide guitar shimmer. Gated snares with explosive accents. Polyrhythmic tom patterns driving. Melodic bass guitar weaving counter lines. Rhythm guitar triads, suspended chords, double stops heavy distortion and precise, percussive palm muting] [FX: Analog synths: EMS Synthi AKS liquid textures, Minimoog (fat bass and leads), Prophet 5 warm pads and analog brass. Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 for Cavernous stadium echo, long-tail reverb and delay, long echoes, reverse reverb swells, and wide stereo imaging.] [verse 1] I see him standing on the hill His face is a disguise He won’t care and never will Who suffers from his lies [prechorus] Burn it down To the ground Lives are lost We pay the cost [chorus] His eyes are cold and dead The world is his alone The voices in his head Have turned his heart to stone [verse 2] His world is plated gold Built on shifting sand The truth is dark and cold He wears a liar’s brand [verse 3] Fools will grovel at his feet They think they’ll get a share But end up dying in the street And learn he'll never care [prechorus] Burn it down To the ground Lives are lost We pay the cost [chorus] His eyes are cold and dead The world is his alone The voices in his head Have turned his heart to stone [verse 4] When will the people learn Greed always has a price He lights the fire to watch it burn A conman loads his dice [bridge] And when his evil game is up Our world has turned to ash He left a bitter empty cup Our dreams tossed in his trash [outro] [prechorus] Burn it down To the ground Lives are lost We pay the cost [chorus] His eyes are cold and dead The world is his alone The voices in his head Have turned his heart to stone [outro] To stone To stone [fade] [end]
