You Give Death A Bad Name chords by Sufjan Stevens

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

♫ 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?