Billy Bragg – The Sleep Of Reason (Guitar)

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[Intro] D B A x2 [Verse 1]
D           D
One by one  The stars grow dim

                    F#
And fall out of the sky

E
And we gather round our shiny screens
To say the last goodbye D. D In communion with a bunch of folks
D                     F#
That we don't know or see

E
In the hope that we might feel something
In place of empathy
D
And so it goes

E                A
Sure gonna miss them

G     G/F#                  E              F#             B
Is it wrong to cling to the past when life comes at you so fast?

G    G/F#        E               A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters

G   G/F#        E                D              B      A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 2]
D                  D
Lies ride in style on a big red bus

                    F#
While you walk into town

E
And surrogates keep their cap locks on

D
To shout each other down

D                   D
And the levies that protected truth

                       F#
Can no longer hold the flood

E
And expertise and experience
Get trampled in the mud
D
And so it goes

E                 A
Guess they had it coming

G     G/F#                  E              
Now there's nothing that you can do

F#             B
To convince them that it's true

G    G/F#        E               A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters

G   G/F#        E                D              B      A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 3]
D                  D
It's over now, you've lost, my friend

                   F#
"Move on, just let it go"

E
Says a man who flies a confederate flag
On his profile just for show
D                        D
And when he hears someone point out that things

                  F#
Are much too male and white

E
Well, he eases of the safety catch
On his second amendment rights
D
And so it goes

E               A
And the kids are alt-right

G     G/F#                  E     
Giving license to all this hate

F#             B
Is gonna make our country great

G    G/F#        E               A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters

G   G/F#        E                D              B      A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters
[Verse 4]
D                D
In this constant state of what the heck

                F#
Just happened, you feel woke

E
But through it all you treat it like
It's just some kind of joke
D                D                           F#
And in the end, the greatest threat faced by democracy

E
Isn't fascism or fanaticism
But our own complacency
D
And so it goes
E. A Best pay attention
G     G/F#                  E     
For there's simply no guarantee

F#             B
Of a happy ending to history

G    G/F#        E               A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters

G   G/F#        E                D              B      A
And the sleep of reason produces monsters