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[Intro]
| B   | E B | B   | F#   |
| B   | E B | B F# | B   |

| B   | E B | B   | F#   |
| B   | E B | B F# | B   |


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


[Post-chorus]
| B   | E B | B   | F#   |
| B   | E B | B F# | B   |


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


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


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


[Solo]
| B   | E B | B   | F#   |
| B   | E B | B F# | B   |
 
| B   | E B | B   | F#   |
| B   | E B | B F# | B   |
 
| E   | G#m    | E   | F#   |
| B E |  G#m | B F# | B   |


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


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


[Outro]
         B        E                     G#m
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        B           F#       B   E      G#m
Singin' drunken... lul... abies
        B       F#    B
Singin' drunken lullabies