G                     Am7        C             Dsus/F#
the wallies on the telly said again today britain must follow brave & tall
while american aggression breaks the backs of men who’ve done little to us at all
C                        G         Am                    D/F#
and the pakistani fish & chips man i know, i see it in the corners of his eyes
G             C                 D                 G
this is a time to rally the troops and remember who’s on our side

G                     Am7        C             Dsus/F#
every 50 years or so we redraw the maps & kill off a lot of young men
and after it’s over we mourn their loss and vow not to do it again
C                        G         Am                    D/F#
& the lessons we aren’t learning from history seem to be on every test
G             C                 D                 G
just because we all keep failing them doesn’t mean we shouldn’t resist

Em                    G          Am7          D
there is never an excuse to kill a man no matter what you want to say
unless he’s killed your family and even then what would you gain
why not try to understand to find out exactly what went wrong
G               C         D                    G
i can’t believe in a world so big we can’t all learn to get along

C               G   Bm               Em
but the doublechin of terrorism laughs in the looking glass
C            G       Bm         C
it projects to the future and echoes in the past
G                Bm            C         D
when we become what we destroy by killing it well then
C          G         D       G
we can be no better and terrorism wins

G                     Am7        C             Dsus/F#
the priests and parliament agree that justice must somehow be served
how can we exact a fair penalty when the whole things so sadly absurd
C                        G         Am                    D/F#
killing a bunch of suits in a building could possibly help anyone’s cause
G             C                 D                 G
& no matter where we go from here it will never be the way that it was

Em                    G          Am7          D
there’s never an excuse to kill a man or to let somebody else die
and it seems strange to see our friends wage war against people they once supplied
i just don’t want anyone to die and i don’t care if they’re free
G               C         D                    G
everyone believes differently why can’t we let each other be

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