Sarajevo

          Am
You don't have to sit back and watch
 the psychopaths fight
    Em
The hand of friendship is usally 
right
     Bb                     E
Most peope want peace and a home 
somewhere
           A                       
They don't care about the thugs and
       E
 their murderous stare
    A
Now we knew this, and for fourty 
years
  E
A brand new way replaced traditional
 fears
     Bb                   E
Most people lived happily side by 
side
   A                    E
No place for terror, no need to hide
       A
But it wasn't to the liking of the 
World Bank suits
    E
Who cheered when the tribes 
rediscovered their roots
         Bb              E
They can handle torture, rape, and 
death
      A                        E
If it opens up markets for the IMF

[Chorus]
            A                   
And they're free now, oh they're 
 E
free now
   Bb             E        
'A chance for individuals to 
     A     E
compete'
A                    E
Free now, oh they're free now
Bb                E               
Fascists gun down children in the 
A          E
street.

[Verse 2]
  A
I remember the message from Amnesty
              E
That said the whole damn lot of them
 should be free
          Bb                       
No matter what they say, no matter 
E
what they do
                A              
'Cause "they're all entitled to 
       E
their point of view"
    A
The liberals cheered when the money 
men won
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         E
Now they cry in the face of the tank
 and the gun
        Bb                    
And the arms manufacturers are 
 E
having fun as well
        A                    
Growing fat on the profits of 
    E
sectarian hell
    A
Now we always saw it another way
      E
For a hundred years, educate each 
day
    Bb                          
And suppress the thugs and their 
 E
murderous lies
         A                      
Keep the lid on the pot 'til the 
 E
hate boiled dry

[Chorus]
            A                   
But they're free now, oh they're 
 E
free now
    Bb                   E        
The rape camp guards can have a 
          A     E
Big Mac for tea
A                    E
Free now, oh they're free now
Bb                 E    
Welcome to Western liberal 
          A    E
democracy.

[Verse 3]
        Bb                  C     
There's freedom in Bischofferode, in
A
 East Germany
  Bb                  C      
A town closed due to "economic 
    A
unviability"
    Bb                             
The word has become meaningless, a 
C
travesty
    Bb              C             
For there can be no freedom 
  Em
without power for the free --
And that means more than shopping, 
           A
actually.

[Verse 4]
     A
In Afghanistan in 1979
E
Everybody swallowed the corporate 
line
   Bb                        E
Misogynists from the twelfth century
      A
Were "freedom fighters" on TV

The Western world took them to their
 hearts
    E
The Afghan nation was torn apart
        Bb                        
And now everything's gone, no one 
E
seems to care
          A               E
About the awful nightmare happening 
there
      A
Civil war in Kabul, fundamentalists 
clash
     E
With arsenals bought with Western 
cash
        Bb                   E
But the 9 o'clock news isn't there 
anymore
        A                          
They're not fighting commies so 
  E
it's not a real war

[Chorus]
        A                    E
They're free now, oh they're free 
now
     Bb                E     
They freeze in Moscow, burn in 
         A    E
Chechnya
A                    E
Free now, oh they're free now
Bb            E            A
Fascism, war, poverty, mafia
A                    E
Free now, oh they're free now
      Bb                 E    
Look "freedom" up in the latest 
           A   E
dictionary
A                    E
Free now, oh they're free now
             Bb            
It says: "an IMF loan and a 
 E               A     E
monetarist economy."

[Verse 5]
   A
In East Berlin the satirists sing
A
"Auf die Dauer hilft nur Mauer"
A
We want our Wall back
A
We want our Wall back
A
Can we have our wall back, please?