Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
F#m
I stand before you even in my
Em
A
D
sleep with wide open eyes
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D
F#m
Like how we fight for love or money,
Em
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F#m
and how we fight for fun
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D
Bm
And how we sometimes fight just
D
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A
D
to see some dam age done
Lady
F#m
Liberty, talked in circles and tongues
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D
While the boys all fought for you
F#m
We thought you were all beauty and truth
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A
Now I see you thought so too
D
F#m
You told us time and time again
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F#m
The best is yet to come
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D
But the more you talk,
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D
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less you solve the dam age done
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D
out to the edge of town
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A
try to live your legend down
D
F#m
Headlong into bat tlefields
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F#m
you broke into a run
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D
Bm
D
To take part in and be part of the
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D
Bm
D
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D
dam age done
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and them lines drawn in dust
To send a half a million men to
My
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God, in cars we toast
D
F#m
But the worst does not the body count
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Nor battles lost and won
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D
It's in the hearts of those who fail
Bm
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to feel the real an d the true
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call it what you will
F#m
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F#m
Nixon now, like father and like son
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Bm
D
One step's a side, one step's right in to carry
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D
Bm
D
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on the dam age done
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A
into a full -time occupation
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ter about a kinder generation
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F#m
Cause once you've tasted power and blood,
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F#m
it's easier to aim your gun
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Bm
Then fire away and walk away
D
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from the den of the truth
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Em
Oil rigs elections and oil
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stains our hands
Soon we'll have a mighty pipeline
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flowin' across
Afghanistan
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D
F#m
One day in hell, two towers fell
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F#m
What's lost can never be won
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D
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D
By war on war, adding terror to the
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Bm
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dam age done
You
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ChordsD F#m Em A Bm
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