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Am               G                 Am
    Back in the days of shock and awe,
C              G            Am
    we came to liberate them all.
Am                    C            D         F
    History was the cruel judge of overconfidence,
Am               G                 F  E
    back in the days of shock and awe.

Am                G                 Am
    Back in the days of "mission accomplished",
C                 G              Am
    our chief was landing on the deck.
Am               C            D           F
    The sun was setting on a golden photo op,
Am               G                      F      E
    back in the days of "mission accomplished".

Am                 G              Am
    Thousands of bodies in the ground,
C                    G                   Am
    brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound.
Am          C         D                F
    No one sees them coming home that way,
Am             G              F    E
    thousands buried in the ground.

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Am                  G                   Am
    Thousands of children scarred for life,
C                G                    Am
    millions of tears for a soldier's wife.
Am                 C            D                F
    Both sides are losing now, Heaven takes them in,
Am                G                    F   E
    thousands of children scarred for life.

Am              G                  Am
    We had a chance to change our mind,
C                G                 Am
    but somehow wisdom was hard to find.
Am                 C               D               F
    We went with what we knew and now we can't go back,
Am                G                    F   E
    but we had a chance to change our mind.


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