Dadd9 (xx0230)
Cadd9 (x32030)
Em7 (020030)
G (320030)
Gsus4 (330030)
Asus2 (x02200)
Bm (224432)
Em (022000)
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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What kind of a world will I leave you my son?
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I thought all of the wars had been fought an been won.
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I believed all the madness had been left far behind
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And the sorrowful lessons learned for all time.
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But it was not to be, we're all mired in it yet
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For it's the doom of men that they forget
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And the price of a life is as cheap as it comes
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Now what can I give you, my only son?
[Chorus]
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But there's hope and the dream of a world at peace
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The triumph of good that's been our destiny.
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And the love, our strength to carry on
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That I can give to you, my son
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That I can give you, my little son.
[Verse 2]
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What kind of a world will I leave you my son?
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When no square inch of earth has not been drenched in our blood.
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All around us, the cries for the innocence lost,
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for those who have gone, and the horrendous cost
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The generation before me had questioned it all
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For an end to the conflict, they had raised the call
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And it fell on deaf ears, just as it's always done
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Now what will I leave you, my only son?
[Chorus]
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But there's hope and the dream of a world at peace
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The triumph of good that's been our destiny.
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And the love, our strength to carry on
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That I can give to you, my son
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That I can give you, my little son.
[Bridge]
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And if we are stardust, how can these things be?
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And if we are golden,then can we agree
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that it's the Devil enraged? We've got to silence his call,
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for the sake of our children, for the good of us all.
[Verse 3]
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What kind of a world will I leave you my son?
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Will there be kindness and will there be love?
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And will you know the joys of this world in your life
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and cherish the one who may become your wife?
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May you have a child one day of your own
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And may you all live in peace, my only son.
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May the day never come when you must take up a gun
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that's my fervent wish for you, my only son.