You Give Death A Bad Name

[Verse 1] 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 D Is there something to be lost to 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 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 Dm7 A cadaver on the cross, you give 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? Outro 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 F (A cadaver on the cross, you give love a bad name) What are you waiting for?