Roger Waters – Amused To Death chords

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THE BALLAD OF BILL HUBBARD
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Gm Eb Gm Eb Eb Cm7 D7 Gm Ebmaj7 Cm7 D7 Gm Gm/F Eb Cm Bb/D Eb F 

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WHAT GOD WANTS PART I
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GmThe kid in the corner looked at the priest
And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar The priest said, God wants goodness God wants light God wants mayhem God wants a clean fight What God wants God gets
EmDon't look so surprised
F/C CIt's only dogma
Em F/C CThe alien prophet cried
F F/EThe beetle and the springbok
F/EbTook the Bible from its hook
Dsus4The monkey in the corner Wrote
Dthe lesson in his book
GmWhat God wants God gets
What God wants God gets God wants peace God wants war God wants famine God wants chain stores What God wants God gets God wants sedition God wants sex God wants freedom God wants semtex What God wants God gets
EmDon't look so surprised
F/C CI'm only joking
Em F/C CThe alien comic cried
F F/EThe jackass and hyena
F/EbTook the feather from its hook
Dsus4The monkey in the corner
DWrote the joke down in his book
GmWhat God wants God gets
God wants boarders God wants crack God wants rainfall God wants wetbacks What God wants God gets God wants voodoo God wants shrines God wants law God wants organized crime God wants crusade God wants jihad God wants good
F C F C F C F C F C God wants bad
Gm F C F C F C F C F CWhat God wants God gets
PERFECT SENSE PART I -------------------- C F Bb Eb F Bb Eb Ab Db Eb
AbThe monkey sat on a pile of stones
DbAnd stared at the broken bone in his hand
GbAnd the stains of a Viennese quartet
Cb DbRang out across the land
DbThe monkey looked up at the stars
GbAnd thought to himself
CbMemory is a stranger
History is for fools
EAnd he cleaned his hands
In a pool of holy writing
ATurned his back on the garden
BAnd set out for the nearest town
EHold on hold on soldier
When you add it all up
AThe tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
DAnd an ounce of pride in each ledger
And the Germans killed the Jews And the Jews killed the Arabs
GAnd the Arabs killed the hostages
And that is the news
AAnd is it any wonder
That the monkey's confused
DHe said Mama Mama
The President's a fool Why do I have to keep reading
GThese technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff And the brokers on Wall Street said
CDon't make us laugh
You're a smart kid Time is linear Memory is a stranger
FHistory is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands Of the great God Almighty
GAnd they gave him command
Of a nuclear submarine And sent him back in search of
CThe Garden of Eden
PERFECT SENSE PART II ---------------------
CCan't you see
It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollars and cents
GPounds shillings and pence
DmCan't you see
F F C/E Dm CIt all makes perfect sense
Gm7 cLittle black soul departs in perfect focus
Gm7 CPrime time fodder for the News at Nine
BbDarling is the child warm in the bed tonight
CmHi everybody I'm Marv Albert
And welcome to our telecast
EbComing to you live from Memorial Stadium
It's a beautiful day
FAnd today we expect a sensational matchup
But first our global anthem
BbCan't you see
It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollars and cents
FPounds shillings and pence
CmCan't you see
Eb Eb Bb/D Cm BbIt all makes perfect sense
And here come the players
FmAs I speak to you now the captain
BbHas his cross hairs zeroed in on the oil rig
It looks to me like he's going to attack
FmBy the way did you know that a submarine
Captain earns 200,000 dollars a year
BbOh that's less tax Marv yeah less tax
Uh thank you Emery you're welcome
Ab Bbm Ebm/Bb Bbm Ebm/BbNow back to the game he fires one yes
There goes two both fish are running
DbThe rig is going into a prevent defense
EbWill they make it I don't think so
AbCan't you see
It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollars and cents
EbPounds shillings and pence
DbCan't you see
Db Db Ab/C Bbm AbIt all makes perfect sense
DbCan't you see
Db Db Ab/C Bbm AbIt all makes perfect sense
THE BRAVERY OF BEING OUT OF RANGE --------------------------------- D A/D G/D D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Em G D Em G D
D A/DYou have a natural tendency, to squeeze off a shot
G/D DYou're good fun at parties, you wear the right masks
Dsus4 DYou're old, but you still like a laugh in the locker room
Dsus2 DYou can't abide change, you're at home on the range
D A/DYou opened the suitcase, behind the old workings
G/D DTo show off the magnum, you deafened the canyon
Dsus4 D Dsus2A comfort a friend, only upstaged in the end
By the Uzi machine gun
DDoes the recoil remind you...
EmRemind you of sex
G DOld man what the hell you gonna kill next
Em G D Old timer who you gonna kill next
(repeat chord pattern) I looked over Jordan and what did I see Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris I swam in your pools and lay under your palm trees I looked in the eyes of the Indian Who lay on the Federal Building steps And through the range finder over the hill I saw the frontline boys popping their pills Sick of the mess they find On their desert stage And the bravery of being out of range Yeah the question is vexed Old man what the hell you gonna kill next Old timer who you gonna kill next Bridge D F/D Em A G F A
Bm C DOoh.............
Hey bartender, over here Two more shots and two more beers Sir, turn up the TV sound The war has started on the ground Just love those laser guided bombs They're really great for righting wrongs You hit the target and win the game from bars 3,000 miles away 3,000 miles away
Em G D We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim with the bravery of being out of range We strafe the train with the bravery of being out of range We gain terrain with the bravery of being out of range We play the game with the bravery of being out of range LATE HOME TONIGHT PART I ------------------------ D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7 Gm6
DStanding at the window
Gmaj7A farmer's wife in Oxfordshire
D Glances at the clock it's nearly time for tea
She doesn't see
Gmaj7 Gm6The phantom in the hedgerow dip its wings
Doesn't hear the engine sing
Em7But in the cockpit's techno glow
ABehind the Ray Ban(R) shine
BdimThe kid from Cleveland
In the comfort of routine
Gmaj7Scans his dials and smiles
Bdim Gmaj7Secure in the beauty of military life
Em7There is no right or wrong
Only tin cans and cordite and white cliffs
D/A A7And blue skies and flight flight flight
D/AThe beauty of military life
A7 DNo questions only orders and flight only flight
Em7What a beautiful sight in his wild blue dream
A7The eternal child leafs through his War magazine
And his kind Uncle Sam feeds ten trillion in
DChange into the total entertainment
Combat video game
Em7And up here in the stands
The fans are goin' wild
A7The cheerleaders flip
When you wiggle your hip And we all like the bit when you take The jeans from the refrigerator and
DThen the bad guy gets hit
Em7And were you struck by the satisfying
Way the swimsuit sticks to her skin
A7Like BB gun days
When knives pierce autumn leaves But that's okay see the children bleed A7aug It'll look great on the TV Bm7 Gmaj7 Gm6
D Gmaj7And in Tripoli another ordinary wife
Em7 Stares at the dripping her old man hadn't
A7Time to fix
Too busy mixing politics and rhythm
D6In the street below
LATE HOME TONIGHT PART II -------------------------
DHark the wire service sing
Em7Clear the satellite link
Check the fax machine
A7Hold the lead story boys
DThere's some great pictures coming in
Now the pilot's heartbeat slows
Em7Palms dry out
No questions only orders
A7 And the F-1 glides in nose-up
Through the cloudbase and the Ground crew cheers as he puts down
DHis landing gear
Bb F Eb D7 Hey boy you're a hero take this cigar
G CBack home in Cleveland
A All the papers and local TV stations
DWill be calling your ma
Em7 And the farmer's wife
Shoos the cat off the chair
A7 She says sit down my dear
Was the milking all right
D Our American friends are late home tonight
TOO MUCH ROPE ------------- Gmaj7 G7 Gmaj7 G7 Gm7 Gm6 Gm7 Gm6 G G7 G6 Cmaj7 Am7 Fmaj7 Dm6 G7 G
C C7When the sleigh is heavy, and the timberwolves are getting bold,
Am7You look at your companions and test the water of their friendship
DWith your toe.
F C G/B AmAnd they significantly edge closer to the gold...
F GEach man has his price, Bob...and yours was pretty low.
C C7Now history is short, the sun is just a minor star.
Am7 DAnd the poor man sells his kidneys in some colonial bazaar
F C G/B AmQue sera sera, is that your new Ferrari car?
F Am7 DNice... but I think I'll wait for the F-fifty
G G7You don't have to be a Jew...to disapprove of murder
G6 Cmaj7Tears burn my eyes;
Am7Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
Em Dm6Preacher or poet, who was it wrote, "Give any one species
G7 CToo much rope and they'll fuck it up?
C C7Last night on TV, a Vietnam vet took his beard and his pain
Am DAnd his alienation of 20 years...back to Asia again.
F C G/B AmSees the monsters they made in formaldehyde floating 'round.
FMeets a gook on a bike...a good enough guy,
Am7 DWith the same soldier's eyes.
G G7 G6 Cmaj7
Am7 EmWhat does it mean, this tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
Dm6That it moves me so much, why all the fuss?
G C C7 C6 Fmaj7It's only two humans being...it's only... two humans being;
Dm7 Am GmTears burn in my eyes...what does it mean? This tender TV?
C C7This tear-jerking scene beamed into my home?
F F7And you don't have to be a Jew to disapprove of murder
F6 Bb GmTears burn my eyes....Muslim or Christian, Mullah or Pope,
DmPreacher or poet, who was it wrote:
Cm6 F"Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up?”
Bb Bb7 Gm7 Gm6 Eb Bb F/A Gm Gm7 Gm6 Gm7 Gm6 Gm6 Eb/G Gm6 Eb/G WHAT GOD WANTS PART II ---------------------- TV Evangelist:]"Do you believe in a better day? Do you have faith in a golden way? If you do, then we must come together this day Come together as one, united television audience Brought together by the sound of my voice United, united financially, united socially, United spiritually, and all possible ways Through the power of money And the power of prayers...."
GmWhat God wants God gets God help us all
God wants dollars God wants cents God wants pounds, shillings, and pence God wants guilders God wants Kroner God wants Swiss francs God wants French francs (Oui il veut des francs francais) God wants escudos God wants pesetas Don't send lira God don't want small potatoes God wants small towns God wants pain God wants clean up rock campaigns God wants windows God wants solutions God wants TV God wants contributions What God wants God gets God help us all God wants silver God wants gold God wants his secret Never to be told God wants gigolos God wants giraffes God wants politics God wants a good laugh What God wants God gets God help us all God wants friendship God wants fame God wants credit God wants blame God wants poverty God wants wealth God wants insurance God wants to cover himself What God wants God gets God help us all WHAT GOD WANTS PART III -----------------------
Em Csus4 CDon't be afraid, it's only business
Em Csus4 CThe alien prophet sighed
F F/EThe vulture and the magpie took
F/EbThe cash box from its hook
Dsus4 The monkey in the corner
DWrote the figures in his book
Em Em/DCrazed the checkout lady's fingers
Flash across the till
F/C CAnd the captain posts the menu of the day
EmAnd in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
Dm6 F/CAnd every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
CGet down on their knees and pray
F F/EThe raccoon and the groundhog neatly
F/EbMake up bags of change
Dsus4But the monkey in the corner
DWell he's slowly drifting out of range
Gm Gm/F Ab/Eb Eb Gm Gm/F Ab/Eb Eb Ab Ab/G Ab/Gb Gb Fsus4 F A#m G# D#/F# F# A#m G# D#/F# F# D# D#/A# D#/A A G#sus4 G#
C# Christ, it's freezing inside
C#/D#The veteran cries
D/AThe hyenas break cover
AAnd stream through the meadow
C#And the fog rolls in
D#/D# To his bottle of gin
D/ASo he picks up a stone
AThat looks like a bone
DAnd the bullets fly
And the rivers run dry
D/C#And the fat girls sigh
D/C CAnd the network anchor persons lie
Bsus4 And the soldier's alone
In the video zone
BBut the monkey's not watching
He's slipped out to the kitchen To pile the dishes
EmAnd answer the phone
WATCHING TV -----------
*D **Ddim5 (repeat as necessary)
G Em7We were watching TV, Watching TV
G Em7We were watching TV, Watching TV
Cadd9 A7 Cadd9 A7 Cadd9 C/B A7 D
G Em7In Tiananmen Square, Lost my baby there
G Em7 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
Cadd9 A7 She was a short order pastry chef
Cadd9 A7In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
Cadd9 G/BShe had shiny hair
A7 DShe was the daughter of an engineer
G Em7Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
G Em7 My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
Cadd9 A7 She had perfect breasts, She had high hopes
Cadd9 A7She had almond eyes, She had yellow thighs
C C/B A7 D She was a student of philosophy
G G/F# Em7Won't you grieve with me, for my yellow rose,
G G/F# Em7 DShed a tear, For her bloodstained clothes
G G/F# Em7She had shiny hair, She had perfect breasts
Cadd9 C/B A7 DShe had high hopes, She had almond eyes
G G/F#She had yellow thighs
Em7 DShe was the daughter of an engineer
G CSo get out your pistols, Get out your stones
G CGet out your knives, Cut them to the bone
G G/F# Em7They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
G C They built the dark satanic mills
G CThat manufacture hell on earth
G G/F# Em7 They bought the front row seats on Calvary
C DThey are irrelevant to me
**D **Ddim5 And I grieve for my sister
People of China Do not forget do not forget The children who died for you Long live the Republic Did we do anything after this I've a feeling we did
G Em7We were watching TV, Watching TV
G Em7We were watching TV, Watching TV
Cadd9 A7 She wore a white bandanna that said 'Freedom now'
Cadd9She thought the Great Wall of China
A7Would come tumbling down
G G/F#She was a student
Em7 DHer father was an engineer
G Em7 Won't you shed a tear, For my yellow rose
G Em7My yellow rose, In her bloodstained clothes
Cadd9 A7Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
Cadd9 A7That no-good low-down dirty rat
C C/BWho used to order his troops
A7 DTo fire on the women and children
Imagine that imagine that
G Em7And in the spring of '48
G Em7Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
G G/F# Em7And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
DOut of the state of China
G Em7Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
G A7And they armed the island of Quemoy
GAnd the shells were flying across the China Sea
Em7 C C/B A7 DAnd they turned Formosa into a shoe factory called Taiwan
G Cadd9 And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
G Cadd9She's different from Anne Boleyn
G G/F# Em7She is different from the Rosenbergs
DAnd from the unknown Jew
G Cadd9 G She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan
Cadd9 G G/F# Half superstar half victim
Em7 Cadd9 DShe's a victor star conceptually new
G Cadd9And she is different from the Dodo
G Cadd9 And from the Kankanbono
G G/F# Em7She is different from the Aztec
DAnd from the Cherokee
G Cadd9She's everybody's sister
G Cadd9She's symbolic of our failure
G G/F# Em7 She's the one in fifty million
Cadd9 DWho can help us to be free
GBecause she died on TV
THREE WISHES ------------ Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm (Repeat Trough lyric until change) Reached back for the bottle And rubbed against the lamp Genie came out smiling Like some Eastern tramp He said, hey boy what's happening What is going on You can have three wishes If you don't take too long If you don't take too long I said well I wish they were all happy in the Lebanon Wish somebody'd help me write this song And I wish when I was young My old man had not been gone Genie said consider it done
EbThere's something in the air
BbAnd you don't know what it is
EbYou see someone through the window
BbWho you've just learned to miss
A AbAnd the road leads on to glory but
Eb You used up your last wish
BbYour last wish
And you want her to come home
CmBring her home
Genie said I'm sorry That's the way it goes Where the hell's the lamp sucker It's time for me to go Bye Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm Cm Eb/F Ab Ab/Bb Cm
EbThere's something in the air
BbAnd you don't know what it is
EbYou see someone through the window
BbWho you've just learned to miss
A AbAnd the road leads on to glory but
Eb You used up your last wish
BbYour last wish
And you want her to come home ITS A MIRRICAL --------------
Bm F#mMiraculous you call it babe, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Em F#mThey got Pepsi in the Andes, they got McDonalds in Tibet.
Bm F#mYosemite's been turned into a golf course for the Japs,
Em F#mThe Dead Sea is alive with rap.
Bm F#mBetween the Tigris and Euphrates, there's a leisure centre now
Em F#mThey got all kinds of sports, they got Bermuda shorts
Bm F#mThey had sex in Pennsylvania, a Brazilian grew a tree
Em F#mA doctor in Manhattan, saved a dying man for free
BmIt's a miracle
F#mIt's a miracle
DIt's a miracle
F#Another miracle
GBy the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
Em Em6 F#The human race has civilized itself
Bm F#m EmIt's a miracle
F#sus4 F# Bm F#m Em F#sus4 Verse 2 (continue chord pattern) We got warehouses of butter, we got oceans of wine. We got famine when we need it, we got designer crime. We got Mercedes, we got Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls Royce, Yeah, we got choice. She said meet me in the Garden of Gethsemene my dear, The Lord said Peter I can see your house from here. An honest man finally reaped what he had sown. And a farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loan. It's a miracle It's a miracle It's a miracle It's a miracle Another miracle
GBy the grace of God Almighty and the pressures of the marketplace
Em Em6 F#The human race has civilized itself
Bm F#m Em F#sus4 F# It's a miracle
Verse 3 We cower in our shelters With our hands over our ears Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff Runs for years and years and years and years An earthquake hits the theatre But the operetta lingers Then the piano lid comes down and breaks his fucking fingers It's a miracle. AMUSED TO DEATH ---------------
Bm A G EmDoctor Doctor what is wrong with me
Bm A G EmThis supermarket life is getting long
Bm A G EmWhat is the heart life of a colour TV
Bm A G Em CWhat is the shelf life of a teenage queen
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western woman
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western girl
BmNew hounds sniff the air
A G EmWhen Jessica Hahn goes down
Bm A G Em He latches onto that symbol of detachment
Bm A G Emattracted by the peeling away of feeling
Bm A G Em CThe celebrity of the abused shell the belle
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western woman
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western girl
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western woman
D Dsus2 D GOoh Western girl
DAnd the children of Melrose
D Dsus2Strut their stuff
GIs absolute zero cold enough
D Dsus2 DAnd out in the valley warm and clean
GThe little ones sit by their TV screens
D Dsus2 DNo thoughts to think
GNo tears to cry
G A BmAll sucked dry
A G Down to the very last breath
Em A Bartender what is wrong with me?
Em A Why am I so out of breath?
Em AThe captain said excuse me ma'am
Em AThis species has amused itself to death
(intro notes comes in full force)
D Dsus2 D G Amused itself to death
D Dsus2 D GAmused itself to death
D Dsus2 D GWe watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
DWe bought and sold
Dsus2 D GIt was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
Dwe ohhed and aahed
Dsus2 Dwe drove our racing cars
GWe ate our last few jars of cavier
DAnd somewhere out there in the stars
Dsus2 DA keen-eyed look-out
GSpied a flickering light
DOur last hurrah
GOur last hurrah
Em AAnd when they found our shadows
Em AGrouped around the TV sets
Em AThey ran down every lead
Em AThey repeated every test
Bm G They checked out all the data on their lists
BmAnd then the alien anthropologists
G Em Admitted they were still perplexed
D But on eliminating every other reason
Dsus2 D GFor our sad demise
D Dsus2 D GThey logged the explanation left
G BmThis species has amused itself to death
Bm A G Em
Bm A G Emrepeat and fade
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