Key: Ab major
Verse 1
Gm
G
remember how we forgot.
G
radio anymore.
Where diplomats chew it up
and spew it up.
And we, we stand like orphans
with empty cups.
there will be no peace.
The press release said the
likelihood of war is on the
increase.
Bm
G
We are being soaked in a potion,
massaged with a lotion to calm the
commotion that hides
the embers of the fire.
There's nothing as quick as a liar.
Don't you learn your lesson?
Are you so, are you so effervescent
that when they
C
G
say day is day and it's dark in your window
you say okay and listen more
tomorrow seems you heard the trigger
word you are space believe it you are
space to be replaced your dreams defaced
heavy questions quickly sink leaving no
trace a spiked drink what kind of trip are you
on don't you remember the last
one.
Remember how we forgot about
Vietnam?
Afghanistan?
Will you fall to stand for a
dream you have not seen?
I'm afraid you will.
You have taken the pill.
And are you
totally stoned on war?
Media hype and the slogans
they write.
Is that all it takes to
set you alight?
There's nothing better than a doped mind
for a young unemployed man to
sign.
Figures go down,
young men sign up.
What better when they're losing
the votes
than to erupt into the uniting sound
of war fever.
We need unity now
more than ever.
We shall only attack to
righteously defend.
Paranoia
seeps in.
Are you one of us or one
of them?
Slogans fall like hard rain as the
government
calls for its children to break down the walls of someone,
somewhere, in some country that
is suddenly so vital to history.
Young men hang in their own
fear.
But we don't cover
that story.
Not here.
Not when there is a
battle that has to be won.
Don't you understand?
That is a war going on.
More than ever, we should pull together.
These are the days of
stormy weather where the patriots show their faces
and the nationalists recruit places.
As the fear of the foreigner arises,
the race attack count rises.
Victims of the small island mentality.
England is no mother country.
He holds the fear of the awakening,
of his shivering shores breaking,
like those in the
Middle
East did when he raped it.
Will you take it?
Take this, without question,
G
fall in line with the press and the politician.
Remember, remember, remember,
remember how we forgot about
Vietnam,
Afghanistan.
G
D
Will you fall, will you fall, will you fall or stand for a dream,
dream, dream you haven't seen?
You have taken the pill and
you are totally stoned on war.
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