Pilgrims Address Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 Intro Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Dsus4 D Dsus2

Dsus4Mr PresidDent, you don’t know my Dsus2name, D

Dsus4But you cDould find it if yoDsus2u really cared, D

 Because I pay my taxes and I pAay my dues,

 All I asGk for in return is the truth

 Can we just bDsus4e honest,D I’ve heard thaDsus2t speech is free, D

Dsus4So please bDelieve that this address is sincere Dsus2 D

 I’m no one speciaAl, just a regular guy

 But I jusGt can’t keep on wondering why

 That the shellDsus4s we fireD now kill ourDsus2 own D

Dsus4And we waDste away like shadows in our home Dsus2 D

I fell from blue skies, fought through desert storm

I froze in fire fights, I killed someone

Who had a father who loved him just like mine

Who believed the sacrifice was justified

In the name of freedom and in the name of god

While shifting sands hid all our sins and all our blood

In the wake of glory I flew back home

I watch videos at night in my uniform

Of those towns and cities being blown apart

By those bombs that fool the people being smart

As they flew down chimneys. Flew down corridors

And explode on film and everyone goes “awe!”

And you read the stories about how no-one’s killed

And I think about the photos that I kept

To remind me that it was all for real

And the ghost that I’ve become will be released

To the sands still shifting that cover all the lies

About what really happened and who really died

Was it really worth it?

Was it worth the cost?

Did we really take the high ground or have we lost

All the moral battles, did we lose the war?

Mr President I need to know for sure

That with all this knowledge, all this control

That we were on the right side after all

That we weren’t lied to, that we weren’t used

And the country that we fought for still upholds the truth.

Mr President, you don’t know my name,

But you could find it if you really cared,

It’s on a black wall, it’s on a cross of stone

Its In the Balkan States, the Gulf and close to home

On not so foreign islands out on city streets

Mr President tell me why I’m here

This is my question, this is my life, this is my address

Mr President, Mr President, Mr President

This is my address, this is my address, this is my address

Mr President, Mr President, This is my address