Chords for colin rudd - when i was a child

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When I was a child, _ they forced me to go _ [A] Where they said I must learn [Dm] all I needed
to know The [Gm] pearls of their [Dm] wisdom were mine [G] to receive
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An escape from the land that [Dm] they call make-believe
Be _ _ _ _ _ careful of giants, _ _ pixies and elves [A] The more the child dreams, [Dm] the deeper it delves
It's time to grow up and take down from the shelves
[A] The books that we'll need [Dm] to deceive in our [D] cells
_ Time to grow old now, [E] past time to leave [A] _ The place they insisted [Dm] was just make-believe _
So _ _ [E] _ soon the tooth [G] fairy and [Am] Santa were gone [G] I knew they were really [E] my dad and my [Am]
mom
The witch on the [G] broomstick could sail the night [Am] sky
[C] The dwarves [G] and the dragons, [E] they all had [Am] to die
[C] _ Destroying my home [G] and they could not conceive That [F] I needed this place [E] _ _ that they call [Am] make-believe
_ The _ _ _ _ attack was [G] tremendous, _ [Am] destroying the light [G] But I planned my resistance [E] far [Am] into the night
By day they [G] patrolled with their [E] murderous schemes [C] But at night [G] I replied with [E] my [Am] magical [C] dreams
Strengthened by [G] moonlight and hidden by leaves [F] I protected the [E] land they [D] call make _ [Dm]-believe
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_ one day I felt strong and I vowed to unravel [A] The mystery of reason, [Dm] the sole way I did travel
_ Far over the boundaries _ and into their land [A] To see how they lived and [Dm] perhaps understand
[D] _ The reason they threatened, _ [Em] punished in grief [A] For the folk who would live [Dm] in my fair make _ -believe
_ _ _ _ _ They still find it hard to confront what they found [A] It seemed like they'd [Dm] turned the whole world upside down
There was talk of authority _ and justice and duty _ [A] As they made up a world [D] with no [Dm] love and no beauty
[G] _ Everybody told [Dm] lies, [G] they'd all learn to deceive [A] And I saw that their whole place [Dm] was just make-believe
They _ _ _ [E] _ all had an image, _
[G] so nothing [Am] was real [C] And they'd lost [G] what was trust, [E] so they [Am] called it a deal
But the deal was so [G] uneven, a few [Am] took the lot [C] And this [G] was the [E] best that the [E] rest of them [Am] got
[C] But with make-believe eyes, [G] no they just couldn't see [F] And their make-believe smiles, [E] _ _ _ _ [Am] hypocrisy _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There was make-believe women [G] and they were walking [E] on sticks And [G] make-believe men turning [E] mountains [Am] to bricks
A make-believe [G] boy with a make-believe [E] gun [C] He was shooting [G] to kill, [E] having make [Am]-believe fun
[C] And a make-believe girl [G] with make-believe eyes [F] She lived in the mirror, _
[E] _ but the mirror [Am] told _ lies
_ _ _ _ _ Make-believe [G] judges upheld make [Am]-believe laws [G] There was make-believe food [E] chewed by make [A]-believe jaws
Yes, even their [G] teeth were as false as [Am] their lust [G] And the food was all poison [E] with chemical [Am] dust
[C] Well, they poisoned the sea [G] and then the land and the air [F] And they said that they'd clean it [E] with make [Am]-believe _ care _ _
_ _ The clever were stupid, [G] the [E] sane were all mad [C] And the truth was [G] all lies and [E] the good was all [C] bad
And [G] long, long ago in a make-believe [F] stall A make-believe god [E] _
watched over [D] it [Dm] _ all
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_ _ _ _ _ Well, what else was there to do but insult _ [A] The world that's been made [Dm] by the so-called adult?
_ And now that I've been there, I plainly perceive [A] That their ways are so cruel [Dm] and I'll never believe
[D] So now I'll return, _ [G] feeling gentle and mild [A] To the make-believe land where [Dm] I'll live like a child _ _ _
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