Bad Party by Catch 22
from Permanent Revolution
tabbed by fuperman
Am E Am
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
Am E Am
Once is for your brothers.
Am E Am G C
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C F G x4
C B/G F G C B/G F G
Isolation, mis-education; and for very clever there is looming liquidation.
C B/G F G
You've put the light of Socialism high up on a shelf
C B/G F G
and in effect prevented it from spreading somewhere else.
Am G F Am
What have you done? What do you say top those who’ve died along the way?
(Am) G F
Should you tell them that they’ve died in vain?
C G Am F
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C G Am F
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.
Am E Am
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
Am E Am
Once is for your brothers.
Am E Am G C
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C F G x4
C B/G F G
Expatriate one hundred and then shoot a thousand more.
C B/G F G
Expel the opposition to your centrist Thermidor!
C B/G F G
The rudeness and disloyalty about which Lenin wrote
C B/G F G
have now become the cords that are wrapped around your throats.
Am G F Am
What have you done? What do you say top those who’ve died along the way?
(Am) G F
Should you tell them that they’ve died in vain?
C G Am F
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C G Am F
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.
Am E Am
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
Am E Am
Once is for your brothers.
Am E Am G C
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C F G x4
C G Am F
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C G Am F Am
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.