Machine Gun

[Verse 1]
                      D       A                F#m      E
That's just what they told me, "You could be a patriot"
                     D       A                 F#m        E
"Don’t you love your country? Don't you wanna die for it?"
                 D       A           F#m   E
How could they enlist me? I was only 17
                  D       A                       F#m     E
It's better to be thankful than challenge their authority
 
 
[Chorus]
                D       A
This is how the world is
                 F#m         E
This is how they suck you in
               D     A
Manipulate the broken
                F#m        E
To suffer every consequence
                 D         A
They gave me a machine gun
                  F#m        E
But I don’t wanna hurt no one
                        D        A
There's nothing here to fight for
                F#m       E
This is someone else's war
 
 
[Verse 2]
                      D      A                      F#m      E
That's just what they told me, "Son, you could be a patriot"
                 D       A                 F#m     E
Defеnder of your country, protector of the innocеnt
                      D            A                 F#m       E
We'll beat 'em with a clenched fist by order of your government
                      D        A                       F#m        E
They said we were the good guys, but what if we're the terrorists?
 
 
[Chorus]
                D       A
This is how the world is
                 F#m         E
This is how they suck you in
               D     A
Manipulate the broken
                F#m        E
To suffer every consequence
                 D         A
They gave me a machine gun
                  F#m        E
But I don’t wanna hurt no one
                        D        A
There's nothing here to fight for
                F#m       E
This is someone else's war
 
 
[Instrumental Bridge]
D A F#m E
 
 
[Chorus]
                D       A
This is how the world is
                 F#m         E
This is how they suck you in
               D     A
Manipulate the broken
                F#m        E
To suffer every consequence
              D     A
I'm only a statistic
                F#m         E
And no one even gives a shit
                     D          A
The treatment for my shell shock (Yeah, yeah)
                      F#m       E
Yeah, they won’t even pay for it
                     D   A
I fired that machine gun
                 F#m        E
I never meant to hurt no one
                      D         A
And as my friends and foes bleed
             F#m             E
We satisfy a rich man's greed
 
 
[Outro]
                     D         A
Maybe I don't know a damn thing
                        F#m     E
I've never been through anything
              D     A
This is all I can be
                    F#m         E
A voice for someone else’s grief
                D
He fired that machine gun
N.C.
She never meant to hurt no one
N.C.
'Cause once you leave a headstone
N.C.
You never really make it home