Shawn James - Dear Soldier: chords

Am                      Dm       Em
Who am I to say what's right or wrong?
     Am                                      Dm  Em
But who are you to pull the trigger on their enemy?
Am                                    Dm
Young man joined the front lines to still his
        Em
stormy soul
 Am                           Dm         Em
Now, all that's left are the memories of war

Chorus:
     Am
They all fall down, some won't survive
Trying to escape the memories of what they became

Am
I tried hard to be proud of my service,
                           Dm
but all I could feel was shame.
                            Em
The racism could no longer mask
the reality of the occupation.
            Am
These were people. These were human beings.
I feel guilty any time
         Dm
I see a mother with her children,
                   Em
like the one who cried hysterically
                           Em
and screamed that we were worse than Saddam,
       Dm                  Am
as we forced her from her home.
                          Em             Dm
I feel guilty any time I see a young girl,
                Am
like the one I grabbed by the arm and
                   Em  Dm         Am
dragged into the street. We were told we
                               Em
were fighting terrorists, the real terrorist
    Dm               Am
was me and the real terrorism was this occupation

Who am I to say what's right or wrong?
But who are you to pull the trigger on their enemy?
Young man joined the front lines to still his stormy
soul
Now, all that's left are the memories of war

Chorus - x2

While those weapons are created and owned
by this government, they are harmless
without people willing to use them.
Those who send us to war do not have
to pull a trigger or lob a mortar round.
They do not have to fight the war.
They merely have to sell the war.
They need a public whose willing to
send their soldiers into harms way.
They need soldiers willing to kill and
be killed without question.
Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen
have nothing to gain from this occupation.
The vast majority of people living in the U.S.
have nothing to gain from this occupation.
In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain,
but we suffer more because of it.
We lose limbs, endure trauma, and give our lives,
our families have to watch flag draped
coffins lowered into the earth