Standard (EADGBE)

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Verse 1

 There are boxes packed with bullets, there are crates all stacked with boxes

There are uniforms and hardware, there are meals all wrapped in plastic

Through the night the ships are loading, every night these ships are loading

 Beneath the glare of the burning floodlights and the dancing of the swarmed

 mosquitoes

Chorus

 And into the fire and the blood red sun the old and rich still send the young men

Into a world of twisted steel and the acrid smell of metal burning

 And on the streets of hometown now, we watch each other as if we're strangers

 But say it loud, scream it loud: I am not at war

Verse 2

(chords as verse 1)

He says: this body I have been given shall be returned unto its maker

Beneath my clothes these secrets hidden, the sacrifice that I have to offer

By the checkpoint there are soldiers and the cypress branches waving

And the light is hard as glass and the sky is blue and cool and waiting

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Chorus

 These stupid empty words could all be written on the cold pale skin

 Of the dead laid out in shallow graves along the road of bombed out palm trees

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Verse 3

(chords as verse 1)

And in the corners of the bars and cafes, in every town, in every nation

There are these blood-sports on the TVs and the loaded toneless voices

There are cameras by the gravesides and in the executioners' chambers

There are cameras high above us to guide the missiles down from the heavens

Chorus

 I am not at war,

Chorus

 I am not at war