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Introducción: Am E Am F Am G Am C G Am C D F Am G F E
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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.