Weddings And Wars

Am                               C
'Bang' goes the big bang in the 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                                    C
Well it doesn't take long 'till 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                               C
The slaves and the soldiers, the 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           C
If all of the past was played as a song,
Am             G                 C
Then our lives are a beat of the 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            C
Above the same earth, beneath the same stars,
Am                 G             C
You can't hide the beast that we are.

Am                           C
Well by the dark ages we're gettin' into guns,
Am                                 C
Still fightin' over god and who's got the right ones,
Am                                   C
Still singin' and dancin', now 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                     C
Factories, A-Bombs and Flying-Machines,
F                  G
Finally someone invents the tv.


[Chorus]

         Am     Em     F            C
And it's birth, death, weddings and wars,
Am         Em     F          C
Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre,
Am             Em      F            C
Above the same earth, beneath the same stars,
Am                 G             C
You can't hide the beast that we 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            C
Singing birth, death, weddings and wars,
Am     Em   F          C
That's all we're good for.
   Am          Em       F          C
If all of the past was played as a song,
Am             G                 F
Then our lives are a beat of the drum,
Am             G                 C
Then our lives are a beat of the drum.