Em          Asus2            Em       Asus2
I've been waiting for something to happen
      Em         Asus2      Em        Asus2
For a week or a month or a year
         Em           Asus2          Em      Asus2
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
         Em         Asus2         Em        Asus2
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
          Em          Asus2            Em      Asus2
You might ask what it takes to remember
         Em         Asus2         Em      Asus2
When you know that you've seen it before
        Em         Asus2          Em       Asus2
Where a government lies to a people
      Em          Asus2            Em
And a country is drifting to war


[Pre-chorus]

              C             Em
And there's a shadow on the faces
       C                Em
Of the men who send the guns
       C                       G
To the wars that are fought in places
            D                 B
Where their business interest runs


[Verse 2] (same arrangement as Verse 1)

On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the USA stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally cant take any more


[Chorus]

         C                       B
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
          Em     D            Em    D
There are lives in the balance
          Em     D            Em    D
There are people under fire
          Em       D            Em    D
There are children at the cannons
             C                   B
And there is blood on the wire


[Interlude]


[Pre-chorus]

          C             Em
There's a shadow on the faces
       C               Em
Of the men who fan the flames
       C                         G
Of the wars that are fought in places
               D            B
Where we can't even say the names


[Verse 3]

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are


[Chorus]

     C                   B
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
              Em     D             Em    D
And there are lives in the balance
          Em     D             Em    D
There are people under fire
           Em     D               Em    D
There are children at the cannons
             C                  B
And there is blood on the wire