Chords for Amused to Death

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_ _ _ _ Okay. _ _
_ _ Okay. _ _ _ _
Okay.
_ _ [G] _ Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Okay. _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Dr [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ Doctor.
What is [G] wrong with me.
_ [Em] _ _
[Bm] The supermarket is [G] getting, [Em] what _
[Bm] is the heart of [G] the TV.
[D] _ _
[Bm] What is the shelf life of [G] a teenage [D] queen? _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] Ooh, _ [G] western woman. _ _
[D] Ooh, _ western girl. _ _
[Bm] No sound sniffs the air when [G] Jessica Hong goes down.
[Em] _ _
[Bm] He latches onto that symbol of detachment.
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _
[Bm] Attracted by [G] the paling away of feeling. _
[Bm] _ The celebrity [G] of the abused shell, [D] the bell. _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] Ooh, _ [G] western woman. _ _
[D] Ooh, _ western girl.
[G] _ _
[D] Ooh, _ [G] western woman. _
[D] Ooh, _ _ [G] western girl. _ _
[D] When the children on Melrose strut their stuff,
[G] there's absolutely zero [D] cold enough.
Out in the van, warm and [G] clean,
the little ones back at TV screen.
[D] No thoughts to think.
_ [G] No tears to cry.
All [B] sucked dry, down to the very [G] last breath. _ _ _
[Em] Bartender, [A] what is wrong with me?
[Em] Why am I [A] so out of breath?
[Em] The captain said, [A] excuse me, ma'am,
[Em] the species has [A] amused itself to [D] death.
_ Amused [G] itself to death.
It has amused itself to [D] death.
Amused itself [G] to death. _ _ _
[D] We watched the tragedy [G] unfold.
We did as we were told, [D] so.
It was the greatest show [G] of all that there was.
So, [D] we all know it.
We drove our racing cars.
[G] We ate our last few jars of caviar.
[D] Somewhere out there in the stars,
the keen [G]-eyed look out,
the spot of flickering light. _
[D] _ _ Our heads were [G] up. _ _
[E] And when they found [A] our shadows,
[E] the brown TV [A] shirt,
[E] they ran down every [A] leaf.
[E] They repeated every test.
[Bm] They checked out all the
_ [G] _ [D] But then, [Bm] the end of
was _ [G] still [E] bright.
[D] But on a limb, they did every other reason
for [G] their second mind. _
[D] They loved the only explanation.
[G] This species has amused itself
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[Em] No tears to [A] cry.
_ [Em] No feelings left.
This species has [A] amused itself [Bm] to death. _ _ _
[G] _ Amused itself to [Bm] death.
Amused itself [G] to death.
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[G] _ [E] It has _ [Bm] amused itself [D] to death.
_ [E] And when [Bm] I saw his name,
I was absolutely [Am] transfixed.
[G] _ It was as [Bm] though, it was now,
a human being instead [D] of some
sort of [E] nightmarish memory
that I [Bm] had of him,
even in all those years ago. _
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [E] And I felt [Bm] relieved.
And ever since then, I felt [D] happy and merry.
Because always before,
[E] whenever I thought of him,
[Bm] I was asking myself,
[D] was there something else that I could have [G] done?
_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ Amused itself [G] to death.
_ And that [Bm] always sort of broke me. _ _
[D] But having [F#m] seen him,
and his name [Bm] is a register, as you know,
in the memorial, there's a little
safe, [B] there's a register in there,
with [A] every name.
[D] Seeing his name, and his name on the memorial,
it [G] enlightened my [E] heart, if you like.
[Bm] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ [D] When was the first time you saw him?
[Bm] _ [F#m] When I was 87.
_ That would be the year 1984. [F#] 1994. _
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