Tom: C
Introdução: 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
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
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