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[Intro]
| C#   | F# C# | C#   | G#   |
| C#   | F# C# | C# G# | C#   |

| C#   | F# C# | C#   | G#   |
| C#   | F# C# | C# G# | C#   |


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


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


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


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


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


[Solo]
| C#   | F# C# | C#   | G#   |
| C#   | F# C# | C# G# | C#   |
 
| C#   | F# C# | C#   | G#   |
| C#   | F# C# | C# G# | C#   |
 
| F#   | A#m    | F#   | G#   |
| C# F# |  A#m | C# G# | C#   |


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


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


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