Chords
[Intro]
D5 G5
[Verse 1]
D5The following views expressed
Do not necessarily reflect
G5 Those of the prevailing
D5Order, who prostrate to
Their naked kings, tailor the seams of
G5 Funeral shrouds on foreign shores,
D5But shed no tears for the dead
The dead of the endless list of
G5 Informal wars the justification for
[Chorus]
A5 Will beB5 spelled outG5 for B5me coming soon G5
A5 To a B5screen, to a screen,G5 A5 near me. B5 G5 G5 F#5
[Verse 2]
B5 I'm G5feeling less Ahopeful
B5 And G5so much less Ahuman
B5 As my G5days are reAduced to
B5 G5 Little Amore than
F#5 Settling for revenge
And B5/F#wondering whatever happened to the kid that pledged B5
[Verse 3]
B5 Chalk it up to an overdeveloped senseBm7 B7sus4of unB5briB7sus4dled B5venB7sus4geance.
B5 Somebody fed me too D5much B5/DNew D5Hope B5/F#for breakG5fast, Gmaj7 F#m7 B5/F#
A5/G Gmaj7 A5Cause as the B7sus4em____pB5ire preemptively strikes back
B7sus4Again B5and the voice of Luke's father
B7sus4BaritonB5es this is CNN
I B7sus4re____cB5all Arab kids slaughtered reduced
G5 To sandniggers and ragheads.
And now I'm expected to B5mourn
[Verse 4]
B5
[Dead]The e[Americans?]xecutioner's willing citizens?
I'm so G5sorry
And I'm trying to think it through,
B5 But when the chickens came home to B5roost
E5 And handdeB7sus4li____vB5ered B7sus4 B5
[Outro]
B7sus4 B5 And handdeB7sus4li____vB5ered G5
Matching funeral urns
To the bully that never B7sus4learns B5
B7sus4 B5 I could've swore I heard a G5chorus rise and fall
Wishing them so many more unhappy reB7sus4turns. B5
B7sus4 B5 G5Every war waged,
Only F#5kings emerged unscathed. B5
