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LAm REm
LAm REm
I have never taken life
LAm REm
Yet I have often paid the price
LAm REm
And you, you are a victim of this age
LAm
And the guilt that hangs around your neck
REm
Has got me locked up in a cage
FA SOL LAm
You've got to learn to live until no end
FA SOL MI
But first you must learn to swim all over again
LAm REm
Because pain lies on the riverside
LAm REm
And pain will never say goodbye
LAm REm
Pain lies on the riverside
MI FA SOL
So put your head in the water
MI FA SOL
Put your soul in the water
LAm
And join me for a swim tonight
I have forever always tried
To stay clean and constantly baptized
I am aware now that the river's banks are dry
And to wait for a flood
Is to wait for life
I've got to learn...
Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)
MIm (D)
Heard a lot of talk about the ocean
MIm (D)
Heard a lot of talk about the sea
MIm (D)
Heard a lot of talk about a lot of things
MIm (D)
Never meant that much to me
MIm (D)
Heard a lot of talk about my spirit
MIm (D)
Heard a lot of talk about my soul
MIm
But I decided that anxiety and pain
(D) MIm
Were better friends
RE
So I let it go
MIm SOL RE
Did you let it go? (3x)
LA
Let's get it back
DO RE MIm
Let's get it back together
Heard a lot of talk about this Jesus
A man of love, a man of strength
But what a man was two thousand years ago
Means nothing at all to me today
He could have been telling me about my higher self
But he only lives inside my prayer
So what he was may have been beautiful
But the pain is right now and right here
Let it go...
Beauty Of Gray
SIm FA#
SIm FA#
If I told you he was your brother
SIm FA#
We could reminisce then you would go about your day
SIm FA#
If I said you ought to give him some of your water
SIm FA#
You'd shake your canteen and walk away
SOL RE LA
This perception that divides you from him
SOL RE LA SOL
Is a lie -- for some reason you never asked why
RE LA SOL
This is not a black and white world
RE LA DO
You can't afford to believe in your side
SIm MIm
This is not a black and white world
SIm FA#
To be alive I say that the colors must swirl
SIm MIm
And I believe that maybe today
RE LA SIm FA#
We will all get to appreciate the beauty of gray
If I told you that she was your mother
We could analyze the situation and be gone
If I said you ought to give her some of your water
Your eyes would light up like the dawn
This perception that divides you from her...
We will all get to appreciate...
SIm MIm
The beauty of gray
RE LA
The beauty of gray
SOL RE/FA# MIm SOL RE/FA# SIm
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(7x) last time
Look into your eyes
No daylight
New day now
This is not...
Brothers Unaware
REm DO
REm DO
So many people
REm DO
I know only a few
REm DO
Yes I may say that I love this man and that man
REm DO
But what keeps me from loving you?
REm DO
Date of birth, geography
REm DO
Color of skin, ideology
REm DO
You got ten fingers, two legs, one nose
REm DO
Like me, just like me
SIb LA
And it's as simple as that you see
REm DO
And if I don't know who to love I love them all
REm DO
And if I don't know who to trust I trust them all
REm DO LA SIb DO
And if I don't know who to kill I kill myself instead
From the mouth of a baby
Will come the world saving words
That will save us all
And from the lungs of a child
Will come the everlasting breath of God
Increasing peace and honesty
And not carrying on despite of me
Don't you know, this ain't about no race, no creed
No race, no creed
And it's as simple as that you see
And if I don't know who to love I love them all
And if I don't know who to trust I trust them all
And if I don't know who to kill no suicide
I'm already dead
Tired Of "Me"
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Intro (4x) Under 1st verse (4x)
You say "hold on to the reigns"
I say "let them go tonight"
My brain waves
Confused between what is and ain't
She cries "groundless and free"
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the water
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the wine
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the future
SIbm MIbm
Tired of time
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the madness
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the steel
SIbm MIbm
Tired of the violence
SIbm MIbm
Tired of me
SIm MIm
Used steel
SIm MIm
Used steel am I
SIm MIm
What was pliable in love
SIm MIm
Is now hard and crystalized
SIm MIm
The intellect is fine
SIm MIm
For counting money and recording times
SIm MIm SIm FA#
That she cried "groundless and free"
Tired of the water...
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Bridge (4x)
SIm FA#
I'm so tired of time
FA# SIm
I'm so tired of the wine (2x)
SOL
Hope is a letter that never arrives
FA# SIm
Delivered by the postman of my fear
Mirror Song
MI LA/MI
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I know that I should think about giving
And think about helping out and think about
Think about living
But I can't seem to rescue myself (2x)
DO#m
What about my bank account?
LA SI MI
And my holy desert shield
SOL# LA
That keeps me dry under the arms
SI MI
Flags and mental jewelry's all I know
SOL# FA#
And they keep me happy and warm inside
So I said unto this man who are you
And where do you come from
And he proceeded to tell me many things
But I said nothing at all
For the flower in the corner by the room
In the window and the sun
Said it all
But what about...
A (arpeggiate chords here)
At least they said they would
SOL#
Said they could
LA
Mama said they would
SOL# LA
Do me good
I know that I should...
Waterboy
DO#m LA SI
DO#m LA
What do you say to the child
DO#m LA
Whose god is in the TV
DO#m LA
And what do you say to the man
DO#m LA
Who blames the world on TV
DO#m LA DO#m LA
They don't even know how to sing my song
DO#m LA DO#m LA
But they won't even try it with me
FA#m SOL#
Who is standing over playing like the teacher
FA#m
Harnessing the learned
SOL#
Who try but can't leave her
FA#m
I want to beg the liars
SOL#
To lay down their sirens
FA#m
That play like the angels
SOL#
To my deep desire
DO#m
Free my son
FA#m
Let him walk right through the rain
DO#m
Free my son
FA#m
Make him waterboy
DO#m
Free my son
FA#m
There he stands down on the shore
LA SI
Free my son
What do you say to the man
Who treats her like a mother
And what do you say to the man
Who treats him like a father
Come and see my heart
Come inside and learn
Come and see my soul, it's like yours
I say it's just like yours
Who is making over
Idolizing princes
Banishing the dreamers
With barbed wire fences
And telling all the children who run to her feet
That they have no vision and love's all diseased
Free my son
Take My Anthem
War in me
War overseas
There ain't no difference between
LAm DO LAm DO
Blood in me
LAm DO LAm DO
Blood overseas
LAm DO LAm DO LAm DO LAm DO
There ain't no difference between
REm LAm
The chills in your spine are oh so sweet
REm
People honor you so high
MI
You've got to defend the stage at your feet-- No!
LAm DO LAm DO LAm DO REm
Take, take, take my anthem today
LAm
Take it away
Hands on me
Hands overseas
There ain't no difference between
Heart in me
Heart overseas
There ain't no difference between
You Are The World
If you've ever known love
If you've ever known peace
If you've ever known joy
Make sure that you are on time
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If you've ever known war
If you've ever known pain
If you've ever said no
Make sure that you are on time
You are on time
You are on time
We are on time
FA# MI LA FA#
For you are the world (4x)
If you've ever known love
If you've ever known peace
If you've ever known joy
Make sure that you are on time
If you've ever known war
If you've ever known pain
If you've ever said no
Make sure that you are on time
LA
Fighting, mating, warring
FA#
You are all this now
LA
Be aware, not scared
Look at me now
Silence
FA#
I say you are the world...
Good Pain
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He said, he said, he said
There was nothing to fear boy
He said, he said, he said
Worthless are your tears boy
Just realize your senses
And realize your earth
Just realize your essence first
LAm SOL LAm
I'll never be the same again
LAm SOL LAm
I want to walk in the sun
LAm SOL LAm
I am alive and well again
FA
No more bitterweet
SOL
No more good pain
No more
LAm DO RE DO
So many of us stand in the middle
LAm DO
Looking back to the worst
RE DO
Looking forward to the fall
LAm DO RE DO
Making weapons of peace for the defense
LAm DO RE DO
Of the bloodstains on our peaceful sidewalks
You say the buildings are too tall
They're going to fry your brother
Well I say you'd better walk away
And find your mother
FA
No more bitterweet
No more good pain
If I can't sing this song
And tell you all about it
Then I'll just pack it up right now and walk away
Don't even doubt it
So when our sherry glass is full
And the day is way too young
You'd better sip today before it's gone
No more bitterweet
No more good pain
LAm
No more good pain
SOL
No more good pain
RE
No more good pain good pain
Mother Earth Is a Vicious Crowd
FA#m MI/FA#m
Pollution, Cain, and misery
MI
Oceans of golden mystery
FA#m MI/FA#m
Armies boisterous and armies loud
MI
Portraits of a vicious crowd
RE LA MI
Talk to me, talk to me now
RE LA MI
Hey man you're all that I have
Me, Myself, Myself and I
Were born to work and born to die
I have chosen my anthems of these I am proud
Portraits of a divided crowd
Talk to me now...
Could you leave it behind...
RE LA MI
Leave it all behind...
10,000 Years (Peace is Now)
LA DO
The world is burning down
RE LA DO RE
Can't you smell the smoke in the air
LA DO RE LA DO RE
War, disease and famine this demon she is everywhere
Poets and preachers and politicians
They've all had their say
And we got 10,000 years devoted
To nothing but tomorrow and yesterday
FA
If all of the ignorance in the world
LA
Passed a second ago
DO RE LA
What would you say?
DO RE LA
Who would you obey?
DO
I am here to say that
LA DO RE
Peace is now
Mr. President I hereby pardon you for your crimes
For they are just as much mine
Selfishness and seperation have led me to believe
That the world is not my problem
The world is not my problem
I am the world
And you are the world
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