You Give Death A Bad Name

Em                     D
Shot to the skull or a strike to the
 brain
Em                        D
As you withdraw, you give death a 
bad name
Em                        D
Can you be stopped or can evil be 
slain?
         Em                     
Is there something to be lost to 
 D
surrender the pain?


[Verse 2]
Em
You're just a shade of something 
betrayed
D
Watch as you fade into the reservoir
Em
Can you exist? Shade of the oculist
D
No consciousness, less than a 
metaphor


Em D

[Verse 3]
Em                        D
What was once dead is now coming for
 you
    Em                       D
The television said it's the right 
thing to do

[Chorus]
Em
Give me a name, more than a flame 
(More than a flame)
D
Can it contain more than a metaphor?
Em
Show me your face, give it some 
breathing space
D
Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir


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Am G

[Verse 4]
Am                   G
Was it for profit or was it for 
gain?
Am                             G
You gave it your all, you gave life 
a bad name

[Verse 5]
Am
Sentries trembling, voices 
assembling (voices assembling)
G
Nothing resembling what it had been 
before
Am
Contamination, death to America
G
Reanimation, what are you waiting 
for?

[Chorus]
Em
Give me a name, more than a flame 
(More than a flame)
D
Can it contain more than a metaphor?
Em
Show me your face, give it some 
breathing space
D
Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir


C F

[Verse 6]
C                      Dm7
Shot to the skull or a strike to the
 brain
     C                          
A cadaver on the cross, you give 
  Dm7
love a bad name

[Bridge]
C
Can you explain all our divided 
pain?
Dm7
What still remains after the rigor 
mortis
C
Poured gasoline, ghost in a dead 
machine
Dm7
God save the queen, lessons and 
metaphors
Am
(Hung from a tree) Edge of the 
canopy
F
(All this debris) Signals and 
semaphores
Am
(Round them all up) Drink from the 
Holy Cup
F
(Battered in blood) What are you 
waiting for?

[Bridge]
C
Jump from the fire into the frying 
pan
Dm7
Voice of the choir, now you are born
 again
C
Gathered in song, calling all next 
of kin
Dm7
Can't do no wrong, perfect American
Am
(Follow your dream) Into the black 
and white
F
(Anthropocene) Live it up, give a 
fight
Am
(Shot through the heart) God bless 
America
F
(Failed from the start) What are you
 waiting for?

[Other]
Em                      F
(Shot to the skull or a strike to 
the brain) What are you waiting for?
F                        Em
What are you waiting for?
Em                                
(A cadaver on the cross, you give 
F
love a bad name) What are you 
waiting for?