The end of the farce

VERSE
C                    Am             F           C
It's panic in the papers and cries of surprise
                  Am               F         C
As another bank just got nationalised

They’re talking up turmoil and social unrest

As the free market fails yet another test

They’re preying on each other, all down the line

It could be the biggest thing since 1929

G

CHORUS
                               C              Am
We hoped it was the end of the farce
         G
That party was never going to last

We hoped it was the end of the farce
But that was just too much to ask

We hoped it was the end of the farce

But it seems that the moment has passed

VERSE 2

After years of credit and decades of debt
Common sense wasn't hard to forget

We are all guilty of going in the rush
For buying everything and never having enough

The force-fed fallacy, that greed is good
Got given the attention that a bad boy never should

CHORUS

MIDDLE
C      Em
Oh guardians
Am
Save us from ourselves

Simple people
We will hurt ourselves

VERSE 3

Those we thought in charge turned out far too lax

The can redeem though with a transaction tax

Return the regulation and end the careers

Of glorified gamblers with derivative ideas

We're faced with few roads but many more signs

And to take none of them would be the greatest crime

CHORUS