New Model Army - Ballad Chords

[Intro]
C#m/G#    C#m/F#    C#m/E   C#m/F# x2
 
 
[Verse 1]
          C#m/G#                   C#m/F#
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?
          C#m/G#                       C#m/F#
We're the ones who knew everything and still we did nothing
C#m/E                 C#m/F#
Harvested everything,   planted nothing.
 
 
C#m/G#    C#m/F#    C#m/E   C#m/F#
 
 
[Verse 2]
        C#m/G#                  C#m/F#
Well we live pretty well in the wake of the goldrush
C#m/E                  C#m/F#
Floating in comfort on waves of our apathy
C#m/G#           C#m/F#
Quietly gnawing away at Her body
         C#m/E                C#m/F#
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
      C#m/E             C#m/F#
Going out in a blaze of suicidal glory
    C#m/G#                   C#m/F#
Not foolish and brave, these leaders of ours
     C#m/E               C#m/F#
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]
    C#m/G#                 C#m/F#
The affair it is over, the passion is dead
    C#m/E                 C#m/F#
She stares at us now with ice in Her eyes
    C#m/G#                  C#m/F#
But we turn away from these bitter reproaches
    C#m/E                   C#m/F#
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]
  C#m/G#                     C#m/F#
I stand on these hills and I watch Her at night
  C#m/E                     C#m/F#
A thousands square miles, a million orange lights
C#m/G#                        C#m/F#
Wounded and scarred, She lies silent in pain
C#m/E                     C#m/F#
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