[Intro]
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D5 | G5 G5add7 F F | Em

[Verse 1]
Em                                                       A5
No one was left who could remember how it had happened,
                  D5                     F
how the world had fallen under darkness.
                                       Em
At least no one who would do anything.
A5                                  D5
No one who would oppose the robots.
                                   G5   G5add7 F Em
No one who would challenge their power,
               A5
or so Dr. Wily believed...

[Instrumental]
D5 | F | Em | A |
D5 | G F | Em | A |
D5 | F | Em | A |
D5 | G F | Em | A | D5

[Verse 2]
D5
Twenty floors above the dark streets of the city,
F                                 Em
Dr. Light lived in a run-down tenement.
                           A
An eccentric and brilliant man,
                 D5                           G
Light was a loner, a thinker, a man of ideas.
F                  Em
Ideas forbidden in Wily's society.
A
The society for which he worked.
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The society in which he lived.
F                                   Em
The society that he would set free.
                     A5
And so Light worked, far into the night,
                  D5                              G       F
when the watchful eyes of Wily's robots weren't upon him.
               Em                                A5                             D5
He had set his skillful hands to the task of creating a device to bring about a change,
               F                         Em                        A5
to create a machine to bring freedom, to create a man to save the world.
       D5                           G         F               Em              A5
Twelve years Light worked, and on a cold night in the year 200X, Protoman was born.
                  D5
A perfect man, an unbeatable machine, hell-bent on
D5
destroying every evil standing between man and freedom.
D5
Built for one purpose, to destroy Wily's army of evil robots.
D5
Ready, willing, prepared to fight.

[Instrumental]
D5 A5 C5
D5 A5 C5
D5 A5 C5
D5 A5 C5

[Bridge]
D5
Cutman
F
Gutsman
Em
Elecman
A5
Bombman
D5
Fireman
G      F
Iceman
Em
Proto

A5
Attack!

[Screaming]
D5 F5 G#5 A5
D5 G5 E A
D5 F5 G#5 A5
D5 G5 E A

[Bridge]
                 D5
And as the smoke cleared,
                    F5                     G#5
Wily rose above the countless robots remaining.
                A5                   G#5
Protoman was wounded, low on energy, struggling to remain standing
        A5                  G#5
as Wily ordered the final attack.
         A5
The death of Protoman.

[Percussion]
N.C

[Outro]
Am            C5                    B5
The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall,
     G#5                Am
to watch their hopes destroyed.
                  D5                          B5
They watched them beat him, they watched them break him,
                 G#5              A5/D
they watched his last defense deployed.
          C5/D        B5/D               G#5/D          A5/D
There was not a man among them who would let himself be heard.
         D5                B5/D               G#5/D            A5/D
From the crowd, from their collective fear, arose these broken words:
   C5/D B5/D G#5/D   A5/D
We are -- We are the dead.
D5 B5/D G#5/D   D5
Ahh, we are the dead.
                        F5 G#5 A5      D5
(What have we done?) Oh no, we are the dead.
      G5   F5 E5           A5      D5
(What will we do?) Ahh, we are the dead.
       F5      G#5       A5      D5
(Where will we turn?) We are the dead.
          G5      F5     E5      A5      D5
(Is there nothing we can do?) We are the dead.
         F5           G#5     A5      D5
(How did it come to this?) We are the dead.
     G5     F5    E5         A5      D5   F5 G#5
(How did we go so wrong?) We are the dead.
   A5      D5   G5 F5 E5
We are the dead.
   A5      D5
We are the dead.

[Cacaphony]
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