Key: C major•
Intro 1
C
G
C
G
C
Verse 1
C
G
C
on the front lines
F
C
You can cut it with a knife
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C
You can stay and take your chances
You can run to save your life
And one side is retreating
And the others are running scared
And the drums of war are beat
Even though it's undeclared
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F
C
And both sides know they're losing
C
G
what they're fighting for
F
C
In the quiet little places,
F
C
you can see the little faces
F
C
Huddled right outside the
Em
G
bed room door
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G
C
G
C
Praying for an end to this uncivil war
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F
C
G
So he's swallowing his pride
C
F
C
Oh, but it don't go down easy
G
C
And it eats him up inside
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C
Mama, she don't know this
F
C
Gsus4
C
Little sister's raggedless
Maybe she don't notice
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F
C
They're just fighting off the hunger
F
C
Trying to keep from going under
F
Em
But the wolves just keep on gathering
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Gsus4
G
round the door
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C
There's no place to run for cover,
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C
so they're turning on each other
C
G
winners anymore
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G
C
G
C
Just victims in this uncivil war
F
C
There's a silence on the front lines
G
C
F
C
G
C
You can cut it with a knife
You can stay and take your chances
G
C
Or you can run to save your life
G
C
G
C
G
C
F
C
G
C
You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC G F Em Gsus4
C
G
F
Em
Gsus4
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