Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Intro:
C majorC E minorEm G+G
Verse:
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
Piles of bodies on the nightclub floor
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
The drugs that arrive from a distant shore
C majorC E minorEm
Poppies in fields get torched in a war
G+G C majorC E minorEm
On everything we ever knew before,
G+G
ever knew before
C majorC E minorEm G+G x2
Verse:
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
Didn't you used to buy this stuff
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
To feed your youth to keep them dazed?
C majorC E minorEm
Even as you talk of a war on drugs
G+G C majorC
The name on the cheque says CIA,
E minorEm G+G
says CIA
C majorC E minorEm G+G x2
Interlude:
C majorC E minorEm
Burn the supply and raise the price
G+G
On the streets where the votes were disallowed
C majorC E minorEm
The voice against war is the voice of the poor
G+G C majorC
And those that turned their heads around
C majorC G+G FF C majorC x4
Bridge:
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
So when you see us laughing it's a sign of self defense
G+G FF C majorC
A augmentedA mirror for the madness that replaces common sense
C majorC G+G Bb majorBb
Verse:
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
Flags get flown on the way back home
C majorC E minorEm G+G D MajorD
From the wars that end when the whistle's blown
C majorC E minorEm
Kit supplied from a factory, sewn
G+G C majorC
For a fraction of the price where the rice gets grown
Interlude:
C majorC E minorEm G+G
Patriotic fervour rests
E minorEm
Its legs on desperation's back
Bb majorBb D MajorD C majorC
When asked to justify itself
D MajorD G+G
It wrapped its silence in a flag
Bb majorBb FF C majorC
The big man cheers for the price of a beer
D MajorD
The peace distraction brings
Bb majorBb FF C majorC
Away from the news and the darkened views
D MajorD
As empires spread their wings
Bb majorBb FF C majorC
FF G+G C majorC Bb majorBb
FF G+G C majorC D MajorD
Bridge:
FF G+G C majorC Bb majorBb
So when you see us laughing it's a sign of self defense
FF G+G FF C majorC
A augmentedA mirror for the madness that replaces common sense
FF G+G C majorC Bb majorBb
So when you see us laughing
FF G+G
It's a sign of self defense