INTRO: 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


CHORUS: 
       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


INTERLUDE: 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


CHORUS:
       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


INTERLUDE: 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


CHORUS:
       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