Chords for Sting - This War

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[C] You get the laugh of a she-wolf [Am] inside the mask of an innocent lamb.
[Em] You know your heart is our compassion
[D] There's just a flat [G] line on your cardiogram that you [C] always made a [Am] profit, baby
[C] Hope is a family [Em] feast
_ Yes, _ _ _ [C] I'm a soul of indiscretion I [Am] was cursed with extravaganza
I [Em] can see right through all the lies you told [D] when you [G] smile for the television
[Am] You can see the coming battle, [C] baby
Pray the drums don't ever [Em] _ cease
But _ you [Am] may win this war that's coming, but [C] _
you tolerate the [Em] _ peace _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] Invest in ammunition and [C] those little cotton flicks
[Am] Invest in wooden caskets and gun somebody begs
Gun somebody [Em] _ [D] _ begs
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You've _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] always been a businessman [Am] and you always make good sense
[Em] You know the war can make you rich, my friend
[D] Dollars, [G] pounds and cents [Am] from a temple that was [C] memoed
You are today the [Em] parish priest _ _ _
[D] _ [A] You may win this [Am] coming battle, but [C] _
you tolerate [Em] the _ _ _ peace
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_ _ [C] Invest _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ [G] in ammunition and [C] those little cotton flicks
[Am] Invest in wooden caskets and gun somebody _ begs
[D] _ [Em] Invest in oppression, invest in [C] corruption
Invest in every [Em] tyranny and the whole world's destruction _
_ _ _ _ Imagine _ [C#] _
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[D] _ _ [Em] there's a future when all the earthly wars are over
You may find yourself just standing there on the white cliffs of Dover
You may ask what does it drive for the man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul
Is it your body you see on the rocks below as the tide begins to roll
Don't you invest [Am] it in this prison [C] on which you never got [Em] release
_ Don't _ you [A] may win this [Am] war you're fighting, [C] but you tolerate the [G] _ [D] _ peace
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_ [Em] There's a war on our democracy, a [C] war on our descent
There's a war [Am] inside religion, what Jesus might amend
[Em] There's a war on mother nature, a war [C] upon the seas
A war upon the forest [A] and the birds and the bees
There's a [Em] war on education, a war [C] on information
A war between the sexes [G] in [Am] every nation
_ There's a [Em] war on our compassion, a war [C] on understanding
A war on love and life [D] itself, it's what the dead demanded
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] So _
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_ [Em] _ _ make _ _ _
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it easy on yourself, _ [Bm] _
don't do nothing
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make it easy on yourself, [C#] _ _
don't do [Em] nothing _ _ _ _
So make it easy on yourself, _ _ [C#] _
don't do nothing
[Em] _ _ So _ _ make it easy on yourself, _ _ _ don't do nothing _ _ _ _ _ _
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