[Intro]

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Strumming pattern makes a short riff played during verses
Em      Asus2    Add G note on 6th string
1 & 2 $ 3        4


[Verse]

            
I've been wait

         
ing for someth

                  
ing to happen
            
For a week or 

         
a month or a y

        
ear
            
With the blood

         
 in the ink of

               
 the headlines
            
And the sound 

         
of the crowd i

              
n my ear
            
You might ask 

         
what it takes 

                 
to remember
            
When you know 

         
that you've se

            
en it before
            
Where a govern

         
ment lies to a

             
 people
            
And a country 

         
is drifting to

       
 war


[Pre-chorus]

              
And there's a 

             
shadow on the 


faces
             
Of the men who

          
 send the guns
             
To the wars th

              
at are fought 

   
in places
             
Where their bu

              
siness interes

  
t runs


[Verse 2] (same arrangement as Verse 1)

On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the USA stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally cant take any more


[Chorus]

             
And they pick 

              
up a gun or a 

     
brick or a sto

ne
            
There are live

             
s in the balan

      
ce
            
There are peop

                   
le under fire
            
There are chil

             
dren at the ca

        
nnons
             
And there is b

              
lood on the wi

     
re


[Interlude]


[Pre-chorus]

             
There's a shad

          
ow on the face

s
             
Of the men who

         
 fan the flame

s
             
Of the wars th

              
at are fought 

     
in places
              
Where we can't

             
 even say the 


names


[Verse 3]

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are


[Chorus]

             
But they're ne

           
ver the ones t

o fight or to 

die
              
And there are 

           
lives in the b

           
alance
            
There are peop

                    
le under fire
            
There are chil

             
dren at the ca

          
nnons
             
And there is b

              
lood on the wi

    
re


[Outro]

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