Western Dream chords by New Model Army

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:
E minorEm   D MajorD  C majorC
     Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm   C majorC  D MajorD
E minorEm   D MajorD  C majorC
     Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm   C majorC  D MajorD


🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm                D MajorD          C majorC
Gather round and listen and I'll tell you how's it's done
E minorEm                  C majorC       D MajorD
How they manage to make idiots out of everyone
E minorEm                 D MajorD        C majorC
Take a human population with their hunger and their pain
E minorEm                C majorC          D MajorD
And the weaknesses that cripple them again and again

E minorEm  D MajorD  E minorEm  D MajorD

🎸 Verse 2:
 E minorEm                D MajorD       C majorC
Invent a splendid party where their dreams can be won
     E minorEm             C majorC       D MajorD
And with bright flashing lights, the heartaches are gone
   E minorEm             D MajorD       C majorC
With sex and with money and with everything for free
     E minorEm             C majorC    D MajorD
Then show tantalising glimpses every night on TV


🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
F# minorF#m                 G+G
Watch the dirty hands that laboured hard for you
F# minorF#m                G+G
Stretching out like children for a crumb that they can chew
    F# minorF#m         G+G
Give a car and video and a little bit to spare
  B minorBm               C#C#
And go on promising that more could all be theirs


🎸 Chorus:
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream

E minorEm

E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC
    Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC
    Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD

🎸 Verse 3:
    E minorEm             D MajorD   C majorC
The producer swears silently it cannot be heard
    E minorEm               C majorC        D MajorD
And the camera crew are muttering those four letter words
 E minorEm              D MajorD       C majorC
Another take is needed so the show can go on
    E minorEm           C majorC      C majorC
With a patronising smile and a popular song


🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
   F# minorF#m             G+G
They tell you when to laugh, they tell you when to cheer
    F# minorF#m              G+G
So the audience at home will get the right idea
   F# minorF#m                G+G
They watch like children left out of a playground gang
  B minorBm                C#C#
Conforming their lives the way they hope will get them in


🎸 Chorus:
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream


🎸 Solo:
E minorEm    D/F#D/F#   G+G    A augmentedA
Em/B   D/AD/A    G+G    D/F#D/F#

E minorEm    D/F#D/F#   G+G    A augmentedA
Em/B   D/AD/A    G+G    D/F#D/F#


E minorEm  D MajorD  E minorEm  D MajorD  E minorEm


E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC
    Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD
E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC
    Oh oh oh oh
E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD


🎸 Verse 4:
  E minorEm                 D MajorD      C majorC
It seems to me sometimes there's only two ways to choose
    E minorEm         C majorC       D MajorD
In this whirlpool made of a thousands years
    E minorEm            D MajorD     C majorC
Either live in these ghettos and know your place
    E minorEm              C majorC     D MajorD
Or you trample over everyone in the human race


🎸 Pre-Chorus 3:
 F# minorF#m            G+G
I wish we could find another way to go
      F# minorF#m          G+G
Without the Ghost of Cain in everything we do
  F# minorF#m              G+G
The bitterness in failure and the dirt in success
B minorBm         C#C#
This is the choice, this is the choice


🎸 Chorus:
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream

  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream
  E minorEm         D MajorD
All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Every winner means a loser in the western dream