Amused to Death Chords

KeyBm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays544

Amused to Death by Roger Waters is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Bm. It uses the chords D, E, F#, G, Bm, A, Em, C, A#, C# and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Bm
Text
16
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Introdução:  
D D E F# G G 
D D E F# G G 
 
Bm                    A           G  Em   
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me 
Bm                    A           G  Em 
This supermarket life is getting long 
Bm                    A     G         Em 
What is the heart life of a colour TV 
Bm                    A     G            D 
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen 
 
Em  C 
 
D D  E F#     G 
Ooh western woman 
D D  E F#     G 
Ooh western girl 
 
Bm 
News hound sniffs the air  
    A             G         Em 
When Jessica Hahn goes down 
Bm                           A 
He latches on to that symbol 
G             Em 
Of detachment 
Bm          A     G                     Em 
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling 
Bm           A        G                    D 
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle 
 
D D  E F#    G 
Ooh western women 
D D  E F#    G 
Ooh western girl 
 
D  
And the children on Melrose 
Strut their stuff 
G 
Is absolute zero cold enough 
D 
And out in the valley warm and clean 
G 
The little ones sit by their TV screens 
D 
No toughts to think 
G 
No tears to cry 
A   A#     Bm 
All sucked dry 
Bm          A          G  
Down to the very last breath 
Em                 A 
Bartender what is wrong with me 
Em                  A 
Why am I so out of breath 
Em                 A 
The captain said excuse me ma'am 
Em                 A 
This species has amused itself to death 
 
D                  G 
Amused itself to death 
D                  G 
Amused itself to death 
 
D                 Em F#   G 
We watched the tragedy unfold 
We did as we were told 
We bought and sold 
D             Em     F#      G  
It was the greatest show on earth 
But then it was over 
D     
We oohed and aahed 
We drove our racing cars 
G                              
We ate our last few jars of caviar 
D 
And somewhere out there in the stars 
               G 
A keen-eyed look-out 
Spied a flickering light 
              D 
Our last hurrah 
              G 
Our last hurrah 
 
Em                       A 
And when they found our shadows 
Em                      A 
Grouped around the TV sets 
Em                    A 
They ran down every lead 
       Em             A   A# Bm 
They repeated every test    
                   C#     D             G 
They checked out all the data on their lists 
          Bm                       C#         D 
And then the alien anthropologists 
          G          F#m        Em 
Admitted they were still perplexed 
D 
But on eliminating every other reason 
         G 
For our sad demise 
D                                 G 
They logged the only explanation left 
                                         Bm 
This species has amused itself to death 
 
Em              A 
No tears to cry 
Em               A 
No feelings left 
Em                  A                   Bm 
This species has amused itself to death 
           A       G 
Amused itself to death 
 
Bm         A       G 
Amused itself to death 
Bm         A       G 
Amused itself to death 
Bm         A       G 
Amused itself to death 
 
 
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Contribuição: Francisco Tanure([email protected]) 
    	

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