Rise Against - Hero Of Waradd

[Intro]

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          D#
He said, “Son,
                 A#
Have you see the world?
                     G#
Well, what would you say
                        D#
If I said that you could?
                G#
Just carry this gun
                     D#
and you’ll even get paid.”
                            A#
I said, “That sounds pretty good.”

              D#
Black leather boots
               A#
Spit-shined so bright
                G#
They cut off my hair
              D#
but it looked alright
                  G#
We marched and we sang
              D#
We all became friends
                     A#
As we learned how to fight


          Fm
A hero of war
                     G#
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
                D#
And when I come home
                         A#
They’ll be damn proud of me
                Fm
I’ll carry this flag
                  G#
To the grave if I must
                        D#
Because it’s flag that I love
                  A#
And a flag that I trust

                D#
I kicked in the door
             A#
I yelled my commands
                   G#
The children, they cried
              D#
But I got my man
            G#
We took him away
                D#
A bag over his face
                       A#
From his family and his friends

                  D#
They took off his clothes
                 A#
They pissed in his hands
                G#
I told them to stop
               D#
But then I joined in
                 G#
We beat him with guns
                   D#
And batons not just once
               A#
But again and again


          Fm
A hero of war
                      G#
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
                  D#
And when I come home
                        A#
They’ll be damn proud of me
                Fm
I’ll carry this flag
                  G#
To the grave if I must
                          D#
Because it’s flag that I love
                   A#
And a flag that I trust

        D#
She walked
                    A#
through bullets and haze
                 G#
I asked her to stop
                D#
I begged her to stay
                G#
But she pressed on
                D#
So I lifted my gun
             A#
And I fired away

        D#
The shells
                    A#
jumped through the smoke
             G#
And into the sand
                        D#
That the blood now had soaked
        G#
She collapsed
                   D#
with a flag in her hand
                A#
A flag white as snow


          Fm
A hero of war
                 G#
Is that what the see
                D#
Just medals and scars
                A#
So damn proud of me
                          Fm
And I brought home that flag
                G#
Now it gathers dust
                        D#
But it’s a flag that I love
                        A#
It’s the only flag I trust

          D#
He said, “Son,
                   A#
have you seen the world?
                    G#
Well what would you say,
                   D#
if I said that you could?