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