WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | New Model Army - Ballad Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
C#m/G# C#m/F# C#m/E C#m/F# x2
[Verse 1]
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When they look back at us and they write down their history
C#m/E C#m/F#
What will they say about our generation?
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We're the ones who knew everything and still we did nothing
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Harvested everything, planted nothing.
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[Verse 2]
C#m/G# C#m/F#
Well we live pretty well in the wake of the goldrush
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Floating in comfort on waves of our apathy
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Quietly gnawing away at Her body
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Until we mortgage the future, bury our children
[Alt 1]
E/B G#m
Storehouses full with the fruits we've been given
D/A C#m/G#
We send off the scrag-ends to suckle the starving
E/B G#m
But still we can't feed this strange hunger inside
D/A C#m/G# B/F#
Greedy, restless and unsatisfied.
[Solo]
C#m/G# C#m/F# C#m/E C#m/F# x4
[Verse 3]
C#m/G# C#m/F#
I was never much one for the great "Big Bang" theory
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Going out in a blaze of suicidal glory
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Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours
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Just stupid and petty, unworthy of power;
[Alt 2]
E/B G#m
Just a little leak here and a small error there
D/A C#m/G#
Another square mile poisoned forever
E/B G#m
A series of sad and pathetic little fizzles
D/A C#m/G# B/F#
And out go the lights, never to return.
[Verse 4]
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The affair it is over, the passion is dead
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She stares at us now with ice in Her eyes
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But we turn away from these bitter reproaches
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And take up distractions to forget what we're doing
[Solo]
E/B G#m D/A C#m/G#
E/B G#m D/A C#m/G# B/F#
[Verse 5]
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I stand on these hills and I watch Her at night
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A thousands square miles, a million orange lights
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Wounded and scarred, She lies silent in pain
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Raped and betrayed in the cold acid rain
[Alt 3]
E/B G#m
And I wish and I wish and I wish and I wish
D/A C#m/G#
We could start over again
E/B G#m
Yeah I wish and I wish and I wish and I wish
D/A C#m/G# B/F#
We could win back once again