Key: C
Introduction: C
F
G
F
G
C
There's addition and subtraction
F
G
C
But division overall
F
G
F
Hope, once in fluid motion
Dm7
G
Has slowed behind a crawl
F
G
C
Oh, the images are strong now
F
G
C
The words are pretty good
F
G
F
But there's more fiction out of Washington
Dm7
G
Than out of Hollywood
F
G
C
On the road of good intentions
F
G
Am
F
All gets justified to hell
C
F
The price revealed in stories
G
C
Too short, too sad to tell
F
G
C
F
G
F
G
C
Is this permanent improvement
F
G
C
Through abbreviated lives
F
G
F
Or another tragic venture
Dm7
G
Shocking when the bill arrives?
F
G
C
By the rubble where the house was
F
G
C
There are markers in the dirt
F
G
F
Children with no need of freedom
Dm7
G
They can no longer be hurt
F
G
C
On the road of good intentions
F
G
Am
F
All gets justified to hell
C
F
The price revealed in stories
G
C
Too short, too sad to tell
F
G
C
F
G
F
G
C
Oh, the soldiers and their families
F
G
C
With life and limb they pay
F
G
F
While the ones who sent them marching
Dm7
G
Get to dance the night away
F
G
C
I always come back to the soldiers
F
G
C
With their courage and ideals
F
G
F
I've seen them smoking in the airport
Dm7
G
There's no telling how it feels
F
G
C
On the road of good intentions
F
G
Am
F
All gets justified to hell
C
F
The price revealed in stories
G
C
Too short, too sad to tell
F
G
C