Roads Of Germany (After BD) chords by
Bob Geldof

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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I'm driving on the

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road that Hitler built

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I'm driving on the road that Hitler built

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This is the place where his

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tory stopped to shit

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And I'm driving on the road

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that Hitler built

Verse 2

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I'm driving on the road that

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Stalin built next

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There's more holes

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in Joe's than Adolf's

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But what would you expect

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I wonder what the Germans did

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Em

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To fall from history's nest

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And I'm driving on the road

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that Stalin built next

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On the roads of Germany On the

Verse 3

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roads of Germany

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These are the roads of the

20th century

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And there's blood and steel and leather

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Em

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Mixed into that concrete

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When you're riding on the roads

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of high Germany

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Verse 4

I'm cruising on Konrad's

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Autobahn

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Konrad's got a Beetle and

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Ludwig a Trabant

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And Willy's got a Merc and

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Erich's got a tank

But that road only took me to a

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concrete dead end trap

Verse 5

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We're driving on the

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Em

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road that never ends

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All roads lead to exit signs

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and then they start again

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And Helmut's building on the

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wheel of history as it spins

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And history never ends 'cause it's

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too busy beginning

Verse 6

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On the roads of Germany

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On the roads of Germany

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These are the roads of the

20th century

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And there's blood and

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steel and leather

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Em

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Mixed into that concrete

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When you're riding on the roads

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of high Germany

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And I'm

Verse 7

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Em

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walking in a Black Forest lane

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And I step into the trees for to

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get some leafy shade

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And I fall asleep in some

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dappled sunlit glade

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And I dream and in my dream

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I am lost and afraid

And it grows dark,

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it grows damp and I shiver and I'm cold

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And deep inside the forest

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something obscenely old

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Stirs and shakes and comes

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awake and in it's putrid pit

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It belches and it squirms

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in its own dirt and filth

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And slithers on it's stinking slime

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while everything holds its breath

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And its slow thighs,

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blank eyes pitiless as the past

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Re born from its fitful sleep, its

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hour come again at last

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Slouches towards its own Jer

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usalem to be re- cast

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And in my horror I recognise

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myself in it as it passes

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Familiar and repulsive and as

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old as mortal man

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This philosophy of brutality,

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ignorance and hate

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Em

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Buried deep in everyone waiting

to escape

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And you must kill it before it kills

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you and everything in its wake

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And I take my knife and I kill it,

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and it screams and then I wake

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And I'm terrified and horrified

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and in this mortal state

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I stagger toward the curbside of the

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4 lane motorway

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"Drive" I say and we drive

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and soon I stop shaking

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Em

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But I can't stop thinking 'bout these

dreams and revelations

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Except it's not a dream it's real and

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it's of our own making

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And it's not just Germany it's everywhere

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and the whole world is a- quaking

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As we turn onto this road we

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all seem to be taking

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And you can't help thinking these things on the roads

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of Germany

Outro 1

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Chords

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The original key of Roads Of Germany (After BD) by Bob Geldof is G major.

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