World War III chords by
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

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3, 2, 1, 1984,
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World War III.
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game of business,
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a game we shouldn't play
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Because men with gun
s killed all our sons
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They blew us all away and
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they called it war
Paranoia, it's almost over
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Nobody hears what the people say
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Paranoia, it's almost over
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
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Realistically,
the bombs are ready
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Technically, nuclear by name
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Capability, auto -destructive
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Radioactive, death and flame
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There was talk of a fiery doom
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Prophesied since the dawn of time
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In a world of bloodshed, mass confusion
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Killer diseases, pollution and crime
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Man is in conflict with nature
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And that is why there's so much sin
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But Mother Nature's delicate balance
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Will fix it so nobody wins
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In World Catastrophe War Reaganomics
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And nobody hears what the people say
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World It's a timing War Catastrophe
Ha ha ha ha ha
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A thousand miles away from home,
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a mortally wounded soldier dies
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And on the bloodstained battlefield,
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his life flashes before his eyes
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Before he died,
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the man saw Jesus and Jesus Christ
Took his hand and all the sol
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diers died in breath
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The good Lord took them
to the promised land
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But there's no people living,
people dying,
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everybody disappear
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After world people living, people crying,
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ha ha ha ha, the breakdown
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Pain
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Pain
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Pain 1984,
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see the world at war,
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your darkest fears of  reality
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are knocking down your door.
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Drones and mutations,
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clones and deviations,
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and there is no one that can escape
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the nuclear revelation.
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Because war is a game of business,
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and in the en d we fight.
The new, young,
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and old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks they're right
Well, paranoia, it's almost over
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
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The silver moon, the midnight stars
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Jupiter collides with Mars
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And out of the darkness, spirits roar
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To cast revenge on the Earth once more
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The leaders of the world are hypnotized
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By wizards dark and in disguise
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Brought to Earth by an evil hand
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F#m F#m 2
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To devour souls in a brand new land
They make the leaders
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think that war brings peace
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And now comes the one
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with the mark of the beast
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There's evil behind closed doors
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Of the year of 1984
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Life is a game of business
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And in the end we fight
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Cause Lou Young is all
I've bought and sold
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And everybody takes their right
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War is a game of business
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A game we shouldn't play
Because Medgar's guns
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killed all our sons
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And threw us all away
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World Catastrophe, War, Reganomics,
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Long ago, and all too soon,
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two different wars fought on the moon.
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One put the craters on it first,
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then we blew it further  in the universe.
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Both of these were nuclear wars
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breaking universal law
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Then falling stars and meteorites
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dropped to earth by day and night
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Twisters, earthquakes, hurricanes,
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volcanoes,
droughts,
and torrential rain
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Then one day the UFOs
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came to see the whole world explode
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We will pay our ultimate price
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and  a lesson is to be learned
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When we play with nuclear fire,
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everybody's gonna get burned
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Because war is a game of business
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A game we shouldn't play
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Because weapons gun
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s   killed all our sons
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Am Am 
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And blew us all away
Yeah, so let the music play
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Between the boundaries
of time and space
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Was the planet Earth and the human race
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A world alive and centuries old
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When veins of dia   mond,
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silver, and gold
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Snow -capped mountains
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overlooked the land
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And the deep blue sea
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made love with the sand
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Full -grown strands of evergreen hair
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Kissed the sky with the breath of air
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Where exotic fish once swam
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In  the sea and the eagles
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soared in the sky so free
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But the foolish clan that
walked the land
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Was the creature that
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they called man
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They're cannibalistic, paranoid fools
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Tricking each other with
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games and blues
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Training their men to kill and fight
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Moving and steering their
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mechanized might
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The only thought that men had in mind
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Was to conquer the world and
the rest of mankind
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And with the thought that they were right
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They gave you permission
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to take a  man's life
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The ones you killed fought
just as hard
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And you even had the nerve to pray to God
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But God don't want
to hear all your mess
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When you ain't the one
that he laid to rest
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The devil's children were
no disgrace
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Crushed and killed the human race
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And while they got rich
off the gains of war
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What in the hell were you fighting for?
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A silly ass medal, a stupid parade
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For all those in nocent people you slayed
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And after that you couldn't
even get a job
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Cause fighting that war
made you a slob
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Sergeant and a major,
a corporal lieutenant
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Titles and positions were all invented
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You and me and all this mess
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Are just a bunch of little pieces
in a game of chess
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It's all the same
The third world war,
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a bloodthirsty massacre
Just like before it's genocide
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Three billion tears feeding on the war
Every 20 years, then one day,
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we heard the sound
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of the whole damn world tumbling down
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Just one big boom, and what do you know,
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the world is a ghetto,
how you know?
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Crumbling buildings all around,
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man's creation burned to the ground
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Chaos, panic, fear, pain,
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days of radioactive rain
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Grotesque fig ures burned alive,
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mi raculously seemed to survive
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Everything of reality is a science fiction
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On TV, mutant dog s enslave the two fats
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Eat men with guns in baseball bats
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The dead gon' die, the rooted won't cry
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And everybody's asking
the question, why?
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Until scores of millions walk from the city
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And thousands more went
underground below
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With their heads held down
in their own pity
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Wondering where, they do not know
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Cause in this game, we had a chance
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But we blew it,
for cheap thrills and romance
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Maybe  one day we'll get another play
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But until then, remember what I say
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Because life is a game of business
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And in the end, we swipe
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The new, and old are bought and sold
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And everybody thinks they're right,
right?
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War is a game of business
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A  game we shouldn't play
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Because men with guns killed all our sons
And blew us all away
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Hurrah! I have a dream
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My four little children
One day live in a nation
where they will not be judged
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by the color of their skin,
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but by the content of their character.
So let freedom ring,
from the prodigious hilltops
of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring,
from the mighty mountains of New York.
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Let freedom ring
from the hyping allegations
of Pennsylvania.
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Let freedom ring
from the snow -capped
rockies of Colorado.
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Let freedom ring
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from the curvaceous
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slopes of California.
But not only that.
Let freedom ring
from Soul Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring
from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring
from every hill and foehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside.
Let freedom ring.
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