Intro
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We request to negotiate
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We come to you unarmed
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We desire to communicate
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You cannot do us harm
[verse 1]
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They want sacrifice
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They hatch schemes and ask me to follow their path to the afterlife
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I've got an appetite
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For nice things and pipe dreams that my enemies could be blasted by
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New metaphors
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View that are better for you can't survive if I'm your competitor
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Rise together or fight separate wars
G# Fm
I pray I'm never forced to be a predator
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Spectres spectate
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We wont last
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They glad to hate
When gladiators
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Breathe their last
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Scream en masse
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When the dreams do clash
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Like the swords in the wars
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Let me bleed on that
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But they feed on that
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Say we need strong backs
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Call us weak
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If we don't redeem contracts
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But the feast wont last
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When this beast attacks
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The sons and the fatherS
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Will be free at last
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This is love this is not treason (x4)
[verse 2]
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They see sharks in the estuary
G# D#
They claim the arc's Bartholomew's
F# C#
They say war is necessary
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But we say war is child abuse
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We'd rather make our children martyrs than murderers
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We'd rather make our children White Flag Warriors
[verse 3]
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Core-to-core
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Were the ones
We've been waiting for
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We hold steady
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Steadier than stevedores
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Not tevias or matadors
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On matters of what came before
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Forgive the debts
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To settle scores
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Test the mettle
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Either or
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Whats your plan got to do with me
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If the bell tolls let freedom ring
F# C#
And find new ways if we must be King
G# D#
Instead of leading the young to our suffering
F# C#
We pass testaments down scream back at heaven
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For testing us like Wednesdays at eleven
F# C#
Wanna recruit and train us to act evilly?
G# D#
Save it for the shooting range and smack DVDs
F# C#
Won't study war no more this millennium
G# D#
It's never again to me or anyone
F# C#
So think harder when you refer to us
G# D#
Rather make our children martyrs than murderers
F# C#
This is love, this is not treason (x4)
[verse 4]
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They shell dwellings to quell the shelling
G# D#
They lift taboos to seduce the cowards
F# C#
They say we're too yellow-bellied
G# D#
But we say we're the new superpower
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We'd rather make our children martyrs that murderers
F# C# G#
We'd rather make our children white flag warriors
[verse 5]
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We seek waivers to not be liable
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We claim to speak for a higher truth
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We stand opposed to the homicidal
G# D#
We tell you you're fireproof
[outro]
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We'd rather make our children martyrs that murderers
F# C# G# F#
We'd rather make our children white flag... warriors
F# C#
We'd rather make our children
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We'd rather make our children
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We'd rather make our children
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We'd rather make our children
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Do what you want to our courage
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Ask us what you will
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Demand from us a sacrifice
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But do not make us kill