New Model Army – Ballad (Guitar)

D/A     = 554xxx
B/F#    = 221xxx   (this alternates to Bsus4/F# 222xxx)

          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#
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

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.

      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;

       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.

    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

  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

      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