The Sleep Of Reason chords by 
Billy Bragg 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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One by one
The stars grow dim
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And fall out of the sky
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And we gather round our shiny screens
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To say the last goodbye
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In communion with a bunch of folks
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That we don't know or see
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In the hope that we might feel something
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In place of empath_ y
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An_ d so it goes
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Sure gonna mis_ s them
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Is it wrong to cling to the past when
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life comes at you so fast?
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And the sleep of reas_ on
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason pro_ duces
monsters
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Verse 2
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Lies ride in style on a big red bus
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While you walk into town
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Em
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An_ d sur_ rogates keep
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their cap locks on
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To shout each other down
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And the levies that protected truth
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Can no longer hold the flood
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And expertise and experience
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Get trampled in the mud
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And so it goes
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Guess they had it com_ ing
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Now there's nothing that you can do
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To con_ vince them that it's true
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And the sleep of reason
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason produces
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monsters
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Verse 3
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It's over now, you've lost, my friend
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"Move on, just let it go"
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Says a man who flies a confederate flag
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On his pro_ file just for show
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And when he hears someone
point out that things
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Are much too male and white
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Em
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Well, he eases of the safety catch
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On his second amend_ ment right_ _ s
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And so it goes
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And the kids are alt-right
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Em
Giving Giving license to all this hate
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Is gon_ na make our coun_ try great
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And the sleep of reason
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason produces
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monsters
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Verse 4
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In this constant state of what the heck
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Just happened, you feel woke
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But through it all you treat it like
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It's just some kind of joke
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And in the end,
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the greatest threat faced by democracy
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Isn't fas_ cism or fan_ aticism
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But our own complacency
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And so it goes
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Best pay atten_ tion
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For there's simply no guarantee
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Of a happy ending to his_ tory
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And the sleep of reason
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produces monsters
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And the sleep of reason pro_
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duces monsters
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Produces monsters,
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produces monsters
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