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[Intro]
| G#   | C# G# | G#   | D#   |
| G#   | C# G# | G# D# | G#   |

| G#   | C# G# | G#   | D#   |
| G#   | C# G# | G# D# | G#   |


[Verse 1]
        G#                G#
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
   Fm             Fm
To glisten once again
     C#                  C#
Five hundred years like Gelignite
     Fm              D#
Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)
     G#                           G#
What savior rests while on his cross we die
   Fm             Fm
Forgotten freedom burns
        C#                C#
Has the Shephard led his lambs astray
       Fm            D#
to the bigot and the gun
 
[Chorus]
        C#               G#
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    C#              D#
To glisten once again
         G#        C#                     Fm
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G#       D#    G#
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Post-chorus]
| G#   | C# G# | G#   | D#   |
| G#   | C# G# | G# D# | G#   |


[Verse 2]
  G#                   G#
I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes
         Fm            Fm
Turn a darker shade of red
         C#               C#
And the bullet with this sniper lie
         Fm              D#
In their bloody gutless cell
         G#                    G#
Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
              Fm                Fm
Through these bars of men made steel
          C#                        C#
Is it a great or little thing we fought
          Fm                    D#
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill


[Chorus]
        C#               G#
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    C#              D#
To glisten once again
         G#        C#                     Fm
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G#       D#    G#
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Bridge]
        C#              D#         G#
Ah, but maybe it`s the way we're taught
   C#              D#      G#
Or maybe it`s the way we fought
      C#           D#             G#        C#
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
         C#         D#          G#    G#
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
       C#               G#
Though nothing left to gain
            C#                      D#
But for the banshee that stole the grave
         G#        C#                     Fm
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G#       D#    G#
Singin' drunken lullabies (right!)


[Solo]
| G#   | C# G# | G#   | D#   |
| G#   | C# G# | G# D# | G#   |
 
| G#   | C# G# | G#   | D#   |
| G#   | C# G# | G# D# | G#   |
 
| C#   | Fm    | C#   | D#   |
| G# C# |  Fm | G# D# | G#   |


[Verse 3]
   G#                  G#
I sit in and dwell on faces past
     Fm               Fm
Like memories seem to fade
      C#            C#
No color left but black and white
    Fm                  D#
And soon will all turn grey
              G#               G#
But may these shadows rise to walk again
      Fm           Fm
With lessons truly learnt
         C#                  C#
When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
      Fm               D#
Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)


[Chorus]
        C#               G#
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
    C#              D#
To glisten once again
         G#        C#            Cm       Fm
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G#       D#    G#
Singin' drunken lullabies


[Outro]
         G#        C#                     Fm
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G#           D#       G#   C#      Fm
Singin' drunken... lul... abies
        G#       D#    G#
Singin' drunken lullabies