Weddings And Wars

Am                            
'Bang' goes the big bang in the 
   C
darkness and thunder.
Am                C
Adam and Eve were strands of 
bacteria.
Am                        C
Blind we crawled with the birds and 
the bees,
F                       G
Few years on we climbed down from 
the trees,

Am                            C
And were standin' in Africa, lookin'
 at the sky
Am                            C
Saying 'why we're here? What happens
 when we die? '
Am                            C
We used god as a word for the things
 we can't see,
F                           G
Now put on some clothes and let's 
wait for tv.

Am                            
Well it doesn't take long 'till 
        C
we're painting caves,
Am                    C
Makin' some men kings and other men 
slaves,
Am                         C
Sayin' God is our reason, God is our
 leader,
F                      G
God spoke to me and he told me to 
kill ya. '

Am                        C
We spread like a virus to every dark
 corner,
Am                    C
Greeks and romans are layin' down 
borders.
Am                               
The slaves and the soldiers, the 
C
queens and the kings,
F                        G
Wherever they were, they all used to
 sing:


[Chorus]
Am     Em      F            C
Birth, death, weddings and wars,
Am     Em      F        C
That's all we are good for.
Am        Em            F       
If all of the past was played as
    C
 a song,
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Am             G                 
Then our lives are a beat of the 
C
drum.


[Verse 2]
Am                         C
Invading, enslaving, then trading 
the plunder,
Am                C
Tobaco and opium, tea leaves and 
sugar.
Am                     C
Empires built with the bones of the 
slaughtered.
F                     G
A barrel of booze in return for your
 daughters and

Am     Em     F            C
Birth, death, weddings and wars,
Am         Em     F          C
Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre,
Am             Em      F        
Above the same earth, beneath 
    C
the same stars,
Am                 G             
You can't hide the beast that we 
C
are.

Am                           C
Well by the dark ages we're gettin' 
into guns,
Am                              
Still fightin' over god and who's 
   C
got the right ones,
Am                                
Still singin' and dancin', now 
   C
we're paintin' on canvas,
F                           G
Pasting the time with our s** and 
our violence.

Am                         C
The west gets rich and it strangles 
the earth,
Am                C
Romeo and Juliet can't make it work.
Am                   
Factories, A-Bombs and 
  C
Flying-Machines,
F                  G
Finally someone invents the tv.


[Chorus]
         Am     Em     F         
And it's birth, death, weddings 
   C
and wars,
Am         Em     F          C
Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre,
Am             Em      F        
Above the same earth, beneath 
    C
the same stars,
Am                 G             
You can't hide the beast that we 
C
are.


[Verse 3]
Am                      C
Instead of hunting now we go to 
Tescos,
Am                      C
Instead of talking now we wear 
headphones,
Am                           C
Instead of mountains we're heading 
for mars,
F                       G
Instead of god we have credit cards.

Am                           C
And we're still here two thousand 
and somethin',
Am         C
No peace, economy is crashing,
Am                           C
Just singin' and dancin' and looking
 at the sky, sayin'
F                     G
'Why are we here? What happens when 
we die? '


[Chorus]
         Am     Em     F         
Singing birth, death, weddings 
   C
and wars,
Am     Em   F          C
That's all we're good for.
   Am          Em       F         
If all of the past was played as a 
 C
song,
Am             G                 
Then our lives are a beat of the 
F
drum,
Am             G                 
Then our lives are a beat of the 
C
drum.