The Jam – Running On The Spot (Guitar)

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Use barre chords for everything but C and during bridge pattern [Intro] C Bb Am G# G7 (X2) [Verse 1]
C                 Bb
I was hoping we'd make real progress -

Am                    G#         G7
But it seems we have lost the power

C         Bb
Any tiny step of advancement

Am                         G#          G7
Is like a raindrop falling into the ocean -

C                                  Em
We're running on the spot - always have - always will?

                F                     G#               G7
We're just the next generation of the emotionally crippled.
[Verse 2]
C                           Bb
Though we keep piling up the building blocks

     Am                      G#        G7
The structure never seems to get any higher

C                       Bb
Because we keep kicking out the foundations

     Am                      G#          G7
And stand useless while our lives fall down.

  C                        Em
I believe in life - and I believe in love

         F                                G#                  G7
But the world in which I live in - keeps trying to prove me wrong.
(Played with Intro Chords) Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa... [Bridge]
Em                     Am
Out in the pastures we call society

  Em                           Am                  G slide to F
You can't see further than the bottom of your glass

F              Fm
Only young but easily shocked

G                            G7                 C  Bb Am
You get all violent when the boat gets rocked -

G#             G7            C
Its Just like running on the spot
C Bb Am G# G7
C Bb Am G#                            C
        Its Just like running on the

C Bb Am G# G7
Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa...
[Verse 3]
 Em                      Am
Just like sheep - little lambs into the slaughter

Em                      Am                 G F
Don't fully grasp what exactly is wrong -

F            Fm
Truth is you never cared - still -

G                            G7
You get all violent when the boat gets rocked -

C                         Bb
Intelligence should be our first weapon

   Am             G#        G7
And stop reveling in rejection

     C                           Bb
And follow yourselves, not some ageing drain brain

       Am                     G#              G7
Whose quite content to go on feeding you garbage

C                                  Em
We're running on the spot - always have - always will?

                F                     G#               G7
We're just the next generation of the emotionally crippled.

C Bb Am G# G7         G#         G7               C
Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa... We're just running on the spot(Repeat to fade)