• Song:

    This War

  • Artist:

    Sting

  • Album:

    Sacred Love - European ...

Intro: E5 

       C5
You've got the mouth of a she wolf
           A5
Inside the mask of an innocent lamb
             E5
You say your heart is all compassion
                   D5           G5
But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram


        A5                        C5
Yet you always made a profit baby
                             E5
If it was a famine or a feast


             C5
Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion,
      A5
I was cursed with x-ray vision,
        E5
I could see right through all the lies you told,
         D5            G5
When you smiled for the television


            A5                    C5
And you can see the coming battle
                                   E5
You pray the drums will never cease
            A5                        C5
And you may win this war that's coming
                                 E5
But would you tolerate the peace?


       D5     G5   C5  A5
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
  D5
Investing in munitions
          G5
And those little cotton flags
          C5
Invest in wooden caskets
            A5                           G5 E5
In guns and body bags, guns and body bags


     C5
Your daddy was a businessman
       A5
And it always made good sense
             E5
You know the war can make you rich my friend
   D5            G5
In dollars, pounds and cents


       A5                       C5
In the temple that was Mammon's
                                   E5
You were ordained the parish priest
          A5                       C5
Yes you may win this coming battle
                                 E5
But could you tolerate the peace?


       D5     G5   C5  A5
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
       D5     G5   C5  A5
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
  D5
Invest in deadly weapons
          G5
And those little cotton flags
          C5
Invest in wooden caskets
            A5  
In guns and body bags
       D5
You're invested in oppression
          G5
Investing in corruption
                C5
Invest in every tyranny
                             A5    G5 E5
And the whole world's destruction 


  G5                 E5
I imagine there's a future
             G5                E5
When all the earthly wars are over
        G5                  E5
You may find yourself just standing there
       G5               E5
On the white cliffs of Dover


        G5                 E5
You may ask, what does it profit a man
            G5                          E5
To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
             G5                   E5
Is that your body you see on the rocks below
       G5              E5
As the tide begins to roll?


        A5                      C5
And you invested in this prison
                                 E5
From which you never got released
             A5                          C5       
You may have won this war we're fighting
                                 D5  G5  C5  A5
But would you tolerate the peace?


       D5     G5   C5  A5
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
          D5
There's a war on our democracy
    G5
A war on our dissent
                       C5
There's a war inside religion
          C5
And what Jesus might have meant


D5
There's a war on mother nature
  G5
A war upon the seas
                      C5
There's a war upon the forests
        C5
On the birds and the bees


D5
There's a war on education
  G5
A war on information
                  C5
A war between the sexes
    C5
And every nation


  D5
A war on our compassion
                 G5
A war on understanding
                 C5
A war on love and life itself
                         A5    C5   A5   C5
It's war that they're demanding


G5 E5  G5 E5

        G5           E5
Make it easy on yourself
             G5      E5
And don't do nothing

          EADGBE
Am....... -02210
C5 ....... -32010
D........ --0232
D. 2-023-
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