Chords
Eight Letters

Key: D

Introduction:

 C 
We became the parade on the streets that we once cleaned
 F 
Expendable soldiers smiling at anything
 G                                                                                                 C 
Raised on a feeling our lives would have meaning eventually
 C 
We were once the answer and then you discover
 F 
Youre actually just one thing after another
 G                                                                                               C 
And what was the question and why was the lesson so deafening?
 C                                                     C/B 
This is all that matters now
                                                                       F               C/B 
And that was all that happened anyhow
                                                               C       C/B 
You can look back but dont stare
                                                           F             G 
Maybe I can love you out of there
                         F             C                   F             C 
And when I went away what I forgot to say
                   F                       G                       C 
Eight letters, three words, one meaning
 C 
And outside forces didnt make it easy
 F 
So I thought Id go before you leave me
 G                                                                                       C 
Self-preservation was no explanation for anything
 C 
But the truth is more than we ll ever comprehend
 F 
Im just starting to understand, my friend
 G                                                                                                         C 
All of that distance, cause I fell in love with the enemy
 C                                                     C/B 
This is all that matters now
                                                                       F               C/B 
And that was all that happened anyhow
                                                               C       C/B 
You can look back but dont stare
                                                           F             G 
Maybe I can love you out of there
 A                       F             C                   F             C 
And when I went away what I forgot to say
                   F                       G                       C 
Eight letters, three words, one meaning
                         F             C                   F             C 
And when I went away what I forgot to say
                   F                       G                       C 
Eight letters, three words, one meaning

 C                           G                           F 
At last, we meet on no mans land
                         G                       C 
Just footprints in the sand
           G                             F                 G 
We meet on no mans land, at last
                         F             C                   F             C 
And when I went away what I forgot to say
                   F                       G                       C 
Eight letters, three words, one meaning
                         F             C                   F             C 
And when I went away what I forgot to say
                   F                       G                       C 
Eight letters, three words, one meaning
One meaning
 F   C   F   C   F   C   F   G   C 
                  Just one meaning