Bella Qim - A Child Left In The Forest
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Verse 1]
Em D Em
A child was sent into a forest
Em D Em
and told he could hold a gun
Em D Em
how to shoot and become his best
Em Am Em
and how to kill for fun
[Verse 2]
Em D Em
the thickness of the green
Em D Em
run down with sulfur smoke
Em D Em
but the child's eyes were keen
Em Am Em
for fear of enemy choke
[Chorus]
G D Am D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy
G D Em
but please can you stop this pain
G D G D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle
G D Em
the promise you made in the rain?
[Verse 3]
Em D Em
A giant nightmare stretched
Em D Em
cause days don't count no more
Em D Em
the stories are too far fetched
G Am Em
cause at home there's no such war
[Verse 4]
Em D
so he returned from the unnamed hill
Em D
they call him now a man
Em D
but he closes his eyes to chills
Em Am Em
(cause) no more a gun in his hand
[Verse 5]
G D Em D
no more son, you can't kill
G D Em D
the hill is gone, really what hill?
G D Em D
you were never there, you never did kill
G Am Em
here- get a shrink; send me the bill-
[Verse 6]
G D Em D
so I'm a man now they say
G D Em D
I'm so lost, am I really?
G D Em D
who said make a stand by taking down another man
G D Em
in a foreign land, eyes steeled, blood so chilly
[Chorus]
G D Am D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy
G D Em
but please can you stop this pain
G D G D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle
G D Em
the promise you made in the rain?
[Verse 7]
Em D Em
so tired of all the scripted news
Em D Em
so tired of all the inside jokes
Em D Em
the child has blown his final fuse
Em Am Em
then lost his will to hoax
[Verse 8]
Em D
commend me for all my glory
Em D
and seize the mind I've left
Em D
long died in the fury
Em Am Em
are all the tears I've wept
[Verse 9]
Em D
the last companion's gone
Em D
to a place not here, for more
Em D
to light a brand new dawn
Em Am Em
far away from this blackened shore
[Chorus]
G D Am D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy
G D Em
but please can you stop this pain
G D G D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle
G D Em
the promise you made in the rain?
G D Am D
Mother I've played your soldier boy
G D Em
but I lost the life to be gained
G D G D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle
G D Em
I lost what could've been gained
[to end]
||: G D Am D
G D Em:||
Can you stop this pain...
I lost life that could've been gained...
please stop this pain...
How to play Bella Qim - A Child Left In The Forest
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