Stoned On War (The Poem)
Stoned On War (The Poem)

Stoned On War (The Poem) easy guitar chords by Lemn Sissay

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo

  • G

  • Gm

    3

  • Bb

  • Bm

    2

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Gm

    3

  • Bb

  • Bm

    2

  • C

  • D

    • Verse 1
    Remember, 
    remember, 

    remember 
    how 
    we forgot. 

    We 
    don't cram 
    around the 

    radio anymore. 

    We have arrived 
    at the multidi

    mensional 
    war. 

    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. 

    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 

    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, 

    fall in line with 
    the 
    press and the 
    politician. 

    Remember, 
    remember, remember, 

    remember 
    how 
    we forgot about 

    Vietnam, 

    Afghanistan. 

    Will 
    you fall, 
    will 
    you fall, 
    will you fall 
    or 
    stand 
    for a dream, 

    dream, 
    dream 
    you haven't 
    seen? 

    I'm 
    afraid you 
    will. 

    You have taken 
    the pill 
    and 

    you are totally 
    stoned 
    on war. 

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