Key: G minor
Verse 1
Em
Lately these days I get so paranoid
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Em
Heard so many stories of
families broken
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Fathers being divided
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Em
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D
All for this war that no one really wants
Em
Too many daughters,
too many headstones
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Too many dying to count
Em
And if we could today
we'd bring them all back home
But they'll never listen,
these politicians,
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their hearts have turned to stone
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Em
And if we had a voice,
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C
then by God we'd be heard
Em
But we're so divided,
and we're undecided,
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so we never say a word
Em
And we all go to sleep,
like good little sheep, never make a peak
So I'm taking a stand,
and I'm making demands
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Em
And I'll stand even if I
have to stand alone
And say bring the troops back home
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Em
But all of the beauty to be
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hold in this world
Em
What would you want to
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feed the de struction?
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But all of the wonders to
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witness in this world
Em
What would you want
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to see Armageddon?
Em
But all of the things that
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you could be in this world
Em
D
What would you go and be a soldier man?
Em
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Em
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Oh I, oh I, I think I know why
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Cause when you were
Em
three years old,
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you put a toy gun in your hand
Em
G
And they showed you shows of G .I. Joes,
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how could you understand
Em
The difference between
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fiction and reality
Em
Oh if your parents knew how it impacted you,
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they would've burned the TV
Bm
Em
But they were too busy,
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D
working for demand
Em
And they were too busy,
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D
just drifting into the plans
Em
So when you were six years old,
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they put you in the boy scouts
So harmless,
Em
it seemed to be marching
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waving the flag about
Em
But they already got you
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wearing that uniform on your back
Em
Using weapons, earning medals,
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gaining rank in your pack
Em
Yeah it's the symbolism,
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that keeps you coming back
Em
Esoteric symbolism
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Into the subconscious they tap
Em
Boy, it's the symbolism
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Keep you slippin' through the cracks
Em
Yeah, it's the symbolism
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Got your mind under attack
Am
But you put on your thinking cap
Bm
Don't get caught up in that trap, no
Em
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With all of the creativity in this world
Em
D
Why would you create nuclear weapons?
Em
With all of the wonders you
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witness in this world
Em
What would you want to
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see Armageddon?
Em
With all of the billion things
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to be in this world
Em
D
Why would you go and be a soldier man?
Em
Am
D
Oh, why?
Em
G
I'm starting to see why
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C
Em
Because when you were 13 years old
D
You joined the ROTC
Em
The high school version of
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your immersion in the military
Em
They got you dreaming of that
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M16 in your head
Em
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Aerobically killing enemies for democracy
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In a vormen land war against
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the mind control
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That keeps you killing blindly
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Gov ernment mind control
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Been going on for centuries
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Em
So when you were 18 years old
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The recruiters came to your school
Em
With fancy dress and propaganda
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trying to make you their fool
Em
Telling you you're never
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gonna amount to anything
Em
But look at all the rewards and benefits
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Un cle Sam can bring
Em
So sign on the dotted line
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The officer says with a grin
Em
Sign your name on the dotted line
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Trust in us we'll take you in
Em
Just pick up your pen and sign
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We'll take care of everything
Em
Sign your name on the dotted line
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And your bright future can begin
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But can you hear the bugle play,
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Em
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as you sign your life away?
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Em
Bm
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Bm
Em
Give me one good reason,
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give me one good outcome
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Em
For my love is killing,
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it don't make no sense
Em
So many are dying,
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orphans an d babies crying
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Em
In the name of freedom,
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what a false pretense
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Em
But all the money, all the power,
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Bm
all the songs that you devour
Em
Am
D
Mr. Politician Man
Em
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You never recoup to the power,
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but you love the time
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Em
Holding the fingers of Matthew
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Oakley's hands
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Em
Some soldier man,
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I'm begging you come back home
Oh military man,
Em
Am
leave them war machines alone
D
Cause them politicians
Em
sit in their mansion
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D
reaping all their benefits
Em
While you die dying in the trenches
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and they just don't give a shit,
Em
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A love that's got to be
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a bit too weird to communicate
D
I don't believe that killing men
makes us more safe
Em
Bm
Lord, I know the opposite is true
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Em
But how about you?
D
Do you buy into the news?
Em
Have they got you so confused?
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Oh, when I feel the pressure in the air
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I get so scared, will we live to see
Another day, another month,
another year?
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Em
How can I protect my family
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Em
From these crazy ladies
D
addicted to war?
Em
We don't need no more
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of these broken dreams and fantasies
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Em
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Of falling down the well
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Oh, daddy's gone and left his
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family a living hell
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Some many die lifeless,
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they lie in graves with
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names unknown
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Oh, mommy cries with star,
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Em
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her son who ain't never coming home
Em
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A love so we don't need,
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oh no we don't need,
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Em
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oh no we don't need no more
Em
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I know our wounds weren't
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meant for hurting them
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Em
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So what are we fighting for?
Em
D
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I know we don't need
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I know we don't need
Em
D
Oh, no, we don't need no more
Em
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Not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan, no
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Not in Libya, not in Israel, Palestine, no
We don't wanna see no
Em
more brothers
coming home in body bags
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Wrapped up in American flags,
Em
D
bloodied American flags
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We don't want to see
no more villages
burned to the ground
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We don't want to see no more
innocent victims dying
Em
No more orphan babies crying
We don't want no more,
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no more, no more war
Em
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Oh no, no, we don't need
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Oh no, no, we don't need
Em
Oh, no, we don't need no more
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