Key: D minor
Intro 1
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E
C#m
A
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E
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Verse 1
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Sadistic soldiers of the rising sun
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B
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1937's when the rape had begun
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The ancient city fell under
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By an engine of war and lust,
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B
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savage and cruel
Verse 2
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B
Unbridled fury of the sick and obscene
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A
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Systematic sexual degradation
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B
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exal ta tion
Verse 3
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Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run
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They turned the waters of
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the Yangtze red with blood
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Cast aside and brutalized
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B
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Terrific horror made to terrorize
Verse 4
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Bestial and violent,
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six weeks of suffering
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B
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So black was the day they
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marched through the gates
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B
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Their fate was beckoning
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Verse 5
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Tanks ran over men nailed
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to board s
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A
's sword
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both the young and the old
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B
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Frozen to death in waters ice cold
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Verse 6
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Disembowelment, some
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are buried alive
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Suicide's preferred for
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B
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those who survive
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in the streets
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B
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Dogs feast on the rotting meat
Verse 7
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Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run
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They turned the waters of
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the Yangtze red with blood
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F#5
Cast aside and brutalized
A
B
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Terrific horror made to terror ize
Verse 8
A
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ti al and violent,
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six weeks of suffer ing
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B
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So black was the day they
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marched through the gates
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B
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Their fate was beckoning
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It was the rape of Nanking
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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So many years and still no restitution
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The carnage of Carthage
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1200 tons
Verse 10
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Massacre removed from history books
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B
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iron hooks
All counter to the rules of war
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They made a city an
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army's whore
Verse 11
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A
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They turned the waters of
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A
the Yangtze red with blood
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A
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Cast aside and brutalized
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B
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Terrific horror made to ter rorize
Verse 12
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Bestial and violent,
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A
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six weeks of suffering
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they marched through the gates
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B
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Their fate was beck oning
Outro 1
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