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Gm Eb
Dad, what did you do in the war?
Gm
Something to answer for?
F
You say too young I am to know
Gm Eb
Dad, I've heard you cry at night
Gm
Mournful and desperate blight
F
Where did you learn that song you sing
Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F
Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F
Cm Eb
"War is in me! I was the war!
Gm F
And your praying brings back the suffering
Cm Eb Gm
No, please, don't start to cry
Cm Eb
I only pray you'll never know
Gm F
The things I see every time I close my eyes
Cm Eb Gm F
Angels still have faces"
Gm
What did you do in the war, dad, tell me
Eb Bb F
Why can't you smile when the children sing
Gm Eb Bb F
Did the wages of war cut your soaring wings
Gm Eb Bb
And your soul is now torn, unlike mine
Cm Bb Eb
Do you fear yesterday will in someway
F
Define the life of your child?
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Am Am Am E
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F#m F#m F#m C#
F#m
Gm Eb
Dad, I know what you did in the war
Gm
Deeds devils would abhor
F
Did you filfil the oath you swore?
Gm Eb
Dad, did you do it for me?
Gm
Their blood for my life to live
F
In the hollow without reprieve, without you
Cm Eb
"War is in me! I am the war!
Gm F
Don't you force me to live the nightmare again!
Cm Eb Gm
Please, don't make my cry
Cm Eb
My son, you never ever want to know
Gm F
How when guarding your sleep serene I hear
Cm Eb Gm F
The silence of the children who sang"
Gm D Eb Bb
Cm D Eb F
Gm D Eb
Far and beyond the stars there's
Bb Cm
A place where all the love,
D Eb F
All the goodness we could have still resides
Gm D Eb Bb
But we choose life away from the light
Cm D Eb
You can find ghosts of loss in the gaze of your
F
Beautiful child
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