Chords
Shock And Awe

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        Back in the days of shock and awe,
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        we came to liberate them all.
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        History was the cruel judge of overconfidence,
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        back in the days of shock and awe.
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        Back in the days of "mission accomplished",
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        our chief was landing on the deck.
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        The sun was setting on a golden photo op,
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        back in the days of "mission accomplished".
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        Thousands of bodies in the ground,
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        brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound.
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        No one sees them coming home that way,
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        thousands buried in the ground.

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        Thousands of children scarred for life,
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        millions of tears for a soldier's wife.
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        Both sides are losing now, Heaven takes them in,
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        thousands of children scarred for life.
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        We had a chance to change our mind,
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        but somehow wisdom was hard to find.
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        We went with what we knew and now we can't go back,
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        but we had a chance to change our mind.