The Sleep Of Reason chords by Billy Bragg

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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 (D major) One by one
The stars grow dim
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And fall out of the sky  (A major) 
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And  (D major) we  (E major) gather round our shiny screens
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 (A major) To say the last  (E major) goodbye
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 (D major) In communion with a bunch of folks
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That we don't know or see  (F sharp minor) 
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 (A major) In the  (E major) hope that we might  (A major)  (E major) feel something
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In place of empath (B minor) y
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An (D major) d so it goes
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 (E major) Sure gonna mis (A major) s them
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Is it wrong  (G major) to cling  (D major) to the  (E major) past when
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 (D major) life  (B minor) comes  (F sharp major) at   (B minor) you  (F sharp major) so   (B minor) fast?
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 (D major) And the sleep  (G major)  (D major) of reas (E major) on
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produces  (A major) monsters
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And the sleep  (G major)  (D major) of  (E major) reason pro (D major) duces
monsters
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 (B minor)  (A major)  (D major) 

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Verse 2
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A 
 (B minor)  (A major) 
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Lies  (D major) ride in style on a big red bus
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While you walk into town  (A major)  (F sharp minor)  (F sharp major) 
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 (A major) An d  (E minor) sur (A major) rogates keep
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 (D major) their  (E major) cap locks on
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To shout  (D major)  (E major) each other  (B minor) down
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 (D major) And the levies that protected truth
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Can no longer hold the flood  (F sharp major) 
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 (A major) And  (E major) expertise  (D major) and  (E major) experience
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E 
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Get  (D major) trampled  (E major) in the mud  (D major) 
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 (E major) And so  (D major) it goes
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 (E major) Guess they had it coming  (A major) 
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Now there's  (G major) nothing that you  (D major) can  (E minor) do
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 (E major) To con (F sharp major) vince them that it's  (B minor) true
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And the sleep  (G major)  (B minor) of   (E major) reason
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produces  (A major) monsters
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And the sleep  (G major)  (B minor) of   (E major) reason produces
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 (D major) monsters
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 (A major)  (D major) 

Verse 3
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 (B minor)  (A major) 
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 (D major) It's over now, you've lost, my friend
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"Move on, just let it  (F sharp minor)  (F sharp major) go"
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Says  (A major) a   (E major) man who flies  (A major) a confederate  (D major) flag
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 (A major) On his  (D major) pro (A major) file just  (E major) for show
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And when  (D major) he hears someone
point out that things
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Are much too male  (F sharp major) and  (F sharp minor) white
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Em 
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 (A major) Well, he eases  (E minor) of  (A major)  (E minor) the safety  (E major) catch  (A major) 
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 (G major) On  (B minor) his second  (D major)  (B minor) amend (E major) ment right (B minor)  (E major) s
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And  (D major) so it goes  (E major) 
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And the kids are  (A major) alt-right
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Giving Giving  (G major) license to  (B minor) all this  (E minor) hate
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D 
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 (E major) Is  (D major) gonna  (F sharp major) make our coun (B minor) try great
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D 
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And  (D major) the sleep  (G major)  (D major) of  (B minor)  (D major) reason
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 (E major) produces  (A major) monsters
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 (D major) And the sleep  (G major)  (A major) of  (E major) reason produces
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 (D major) monsters
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 (B minor)  (D major)  (A major)  (D major)  (B minor) 

Verse 4
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 (A major) In this  (D major) constant state  (A major) of  (D major) what the heck
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Just happened, you feel  (F sharp major) woke
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 (A major) But through  (E major)  (D major) it all  (E major)  (D major) you treat  (A major) it like  (D major) 
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It's just some  (B minor)  (E major) kind of  (B minor) joke
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 (D major) And in the end,
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the greatest threat faced by democracy  (F sharp minor) 
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 (F sharp major) Isn't  (A major) fas (E major) cism  (A major) or fan (E major) aticism
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 (D major) But our own  (E major) complacency
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And so  (D major) it goes  (E major) 
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Best pay atten (A major) tion
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For  (D major) there's  (G major) simply no  (D major)  (E major) guarantee
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Of a happy  (F sharp major) ending to his (B minor) tory
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 (D major) And the sleep  (G major)  (D major) of  (B minor)  (A major) reason
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 (E major) produces  (A major) monsters
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And the sleep  (G major)  (D major) of  (E major) reason pro
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duces  (D major) monsters
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 (A major) Produces  (D major) monsters,
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 (A major) produces  (D major) monsters
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 (A major)  (D major) 