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