This War Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Em

 You've Cgot the mouth of a she wolf

 Inside the Ammask of an innocent lamb

 You say your Emheart is all compassion

 But there's just a Dsus2flat lF♯ine on your cGardiogram

 Yet you Amalways made a profit baby C

 If it was a famine or a feastEm

 Yes, I'm the Csoul of indiscretion,

 I was Amcursed with x-ray vision,

 I could Emsee right through all the lies you told,

 When you Dsus2smiledF♯ for the televGision

 And you can Amsee the coming battle C

 You pray the drums will never ceaseEm

 And you may Amwin this war that's comingC

 But would you tolerate the peace?Em

 OoHooHoDooooHoGooHoCoooAmoo

 InDvesting in munitions

 And those Glittle cotton flags

 Invest in Cwooden caskets

 In guns and Ambody bags, guns and body bagsG Em

 Your Cdaddy was a businessman

 And it Amalways made good sense

 You know the Emwar can make you rich my friend

 In Dsus2dollarF♯s, pounds and Gcents

 In the Amtemple that was Mammon's C

 You were ordained the parish priestEm

 Yes you maAmy win this coming battle C

 But could you tolerate the peace?Em

 OoHooHoDooooHoGooHoCoooAmoo

 OoHooHoDooooHoGooHoCoooAmoo

 InDvest in deadly weapons

 And those Glittle cotton flags

 Invest in Cwooden caskets

 In guns and Ambody bags

 You're Dinvested in oppression

 Investing Gin corruption

 Invest in every Ctyranny

 And the whole world's destrucAmtion G Em

 I Gimagine there's a Emfuture

 When all the Gearthly wars are Emover

 You may Gfind yourself just Emstanding there

 On the Gwhite cliffs of EmDover

 You may Gask, what does it Emprofit a man

 To gain the Gwhole world and suffer the Emloss of his soul?

 Is that your Gbody you see on the Emrocks below

 As the Gtide begins to Emroll?

 And you Aminvested in this prison C

 From which you never got releasedEm

 You may have Amwon this war we're fighting C

 But would you tolerate the peace?D G C Am

 OoHooHoDooooHoGooHoCoooAmoo

 There's a Dwar on our democracy

 A waGr on our dissent

 There's a war inside reCligion

 And what JCesus might have meant

DThere's a war on mother nature

 A Gwar upon the seas

 There's a war upon theC forests

 On the bCirds and the bees

DThere's a war on education

 A Gwar on information

 A war between the Csexes

 And Cevery nation

 A Dwar on our compassion

 A war on understaGnding

 A war on love andC life itself

 It's war that they're demAmandingC Am C

G Em G Em

 Make it Geasy on yourEmself

 And don't do GnothingEm

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