[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?