A#m F A#m
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
A#m F A#m
Once is for your brothers.
A#m F A#m G# C#
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C# F# G# x4
C# C/G# F# G# C# C/G# F# G#
Isolation, mis-education; and for very clever there is looming liquidation.
C# C/G# F# G#
You've put the light of Socialism high up on a shelf
C# C/G# F# G#
and in effect prevented it from spreading somewhere else.
A#m G# F# A#m
What have you done? What do you say top those who’ve died along the way?
(Am) G# F#
Should you tell them that they’ve died in vain?
C# G# A#m F#
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C# G# A#m F#
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.
A#m F A#m
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
A#m F A#m
Once is for your brothers.
A#m F A#m G# C#
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C# F# G# x4
C# C/G# F# G#
Expatriate one hundred and then shoot a thousand more.
C# C/G# F# G#
Expel the opposition to your centrist Thermidor!
C# C/G# F# G#
The rudeness and disloyalty about which Lenin wrote
C# C/G# F# G#
have now become the cords that are wrapped around your throats.
A#m G# F# A#m
What have you done? What do you say top those who’ve died along the way?
(Am) G# F#
Should you tell them that they’ve died in vain?
C# G# A#m F#
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C# G# A#m F#
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.
A#m F A#m
So I submit you’ve failed us twice.
A#m F A#m
Once is for your brothers.
A#m F A#m G# C#
One is for your brothers and the second’s for your sons.
C# F# G# x4
C# G# A#m F#
Now is when we should all be moving forward, but instead you’re falling back.
C# G# A#m F# A#m
Don’t stop now when we’re almost up the mountain, though the view here mighty seem nice.