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C F C
Why do we never get an answer
F C
When we're knocking at the door
F C
With a thousand million questions
F C
About hate and death and war
D# C
And when we stop and look around us
F C
There is nothing that we need
F C F C D#
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed
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verse 1
C F C
Why do we never get an answer
F C
When we're knocking at the door
F C
Because the truth is hard to swallow
F C
That's what the war of love is for
verse 3
Am C
It's not the way that you say it
F C
When you say those things to me
F C
It's more the way that you mean it
F C F C
When you tell me what will be
verse 4
F C
And we stop and think about it
F C
You won't believe it's true
F C
That all the love you've been given
F C F C
Has all been meant for you
Verse 5
G C
I'm looking for someone to change my life
G C
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
(walk up to F) F C
And if you could see what it's done to me
G
To lose the love I knew
C F C
Could safely see me through
Verse 6
F C
Between the silence of the mountains
F C
And the crashing of the sea
Am F C
Lies a land I once lived in
G C F C
And she's waiting there for me
Verse 7
F C
But in the grey of the morning
F C
My mind becomes confused
F C
Between the dead and the sleeping
F C
And the road that I must choose
Bridge
G C
I'm looking for someone to change my life
G C
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
(walk up to F) F G
And if you could see what it's done to me
G7 C
To lose the love you knew
(walk up to F) F
Could safely lead you to
C
The land that I once knew
G
To find as we grow old
G7 C
The secrets of our souls
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C F C
Why do we never get an answer
F C
When we're knocking at the door
F C
With a thousand million questions
F C
About hate and love and war
F C
When we stop and look around us
F C
There is nothing that we need
F C F C
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed
Riff outro D# F D# D D# F D# D G C F C F C