V For Vendetta - This Vicious Cabaret chords by Soundtracks

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Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

This Vicious Cabaret

Verse:
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They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
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They say that life's a game, then they take the board away
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They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
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Then leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret...

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In no-longer-pretty cities there are fingers in the kitties
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There are warrants, forms, and chitties and a jackboot on the stair

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There’s Sex and death and human grime, in monochrome for one thin dime
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At least the trains all run on time but they don't go anywhere

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Facing their responsibilities, either on their backs or on their knees
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There are ladies who just simply freeze and dare not turn a- way

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And the widows who refuse to cry will be dressed in garter and bow-tie
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And be taught to kick their legs up high in this vicious cabaret

Chorus:
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At last! The 1998 Show!
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The ballet on the burning stage
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The documentary seen
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Up on the fractured screen
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The dreadful poem scrawled upon the crumpled page...

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There's a policeman with an honest soul
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Who’s seen whose head is on the pole
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And he grunts and fills his briar bowl with a feeling of unease

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Then he briskly frisks the torn remains
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For a fingerprint or crimson stains
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And endevours to ignore the chains that he walks in to his knees

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While his master in the dark nearby inspects the hands, with brutal eye
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That have never brushed a lover's thigh but have squeezed a nation's throat

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And he hungers in his secret dreams
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For the harsh embrace of cruel machines
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But his lover is not what she seems
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And she will not leave a note

Chorus:
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At last! The 1998 Show!
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The Situation Tragedy
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Grand Opera slick with soap
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Cliffhangers with no hope
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The water-colour in the flooded gallery...

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There's a girl who'll push but will not shove
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And she's desperate for her father's love
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She believes the hand beneath the glove may be one she needs to hold

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Though she doubts her host's moralities
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She decides she is more at ease
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In the Land Of Doing-As-You-Please
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Than outside in the cold

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But the backdrops peel and the sets give way
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And the cast get eaten by the play
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There's a murderer at the Matinee,
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There are dead men in the aisles

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And the patrons and the actors too
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Are uncertain if the show is through
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And with side-long looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles

Chorus:
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At last! The 1998 Show!
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The torch-song no one ever sings!
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The curfew chorus line!
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The comedy divine!
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The bulging eyes of puppets strangled by their strings!

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There's thrills and chills and girls galore, sing-songs and surprises!
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There's something hear for everyone, reserve your seat today!
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There's mischief and malarkies but no queers or yids or darkies
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Within this bastard's carnival, this vicious cabaret!