Chords for The Undercover Hippy - Why Do We Fight [Live at Small World Spring Festival 2009]

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_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [B] [F#] People tend to think peace, but the US think tanks.
Well they [A] tend to think [B] tanks, so they can [Em] get us into debt with the big [G] banks for big
thanks, because the old boys they [F#] keep ranks.
And to be frank, join the army they say, you can travel to new places, buy [B] guns and learn a trade.
Well to be frank I'd rather fire up some vocals, visit all those places without blowing up the [B] locals.
It's loco, no I'm not gonna stay in bed like John [G] and Yoko.
If you keep such a protest [F#] in with a cup of cocoa, fuck that man, I'm taking to the street.
Shouting out my question to a bee, [B] why do we fight?
[Bm] Is it to protect the [G] morality of a nation based [F#] on criminality?
Is it for the global peace?
Are we the police of the global [B] streets?
Is it [F#] for the lives of the little children?
And if it is, [B] tell me why [F#] do we kill them?
I'll tell you why we fight.
We [Gm] fight for power, material gain, and [B] that's not right.
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[D#] Consider Iraq for a second and the fact that the [A] weapons we attack for were never [G] even there.
But do we even care?
Or are we [E] so distracted by the fact that Britney Spears has [B] got no hair?
Do we're happy [G] to look wherever the media instructs us?
Obsessing with sex and [Bm] systematically corrupts [B] us.
Until we're so [D] full of fear it erupts us as xenophobia mistrusts the people we [Bm] deduct
as being Muslim by ethnicity, guilty by [G] complicity.
Listen to me, this is [A] the media [G] publicity.
Like electricity it charges the commotion until it's like an ocean of negative [Em] emotion.
But [G] I'm drowning in the sea _ [A] _ [B] of fear and suspicion,
illegal [F#] rendition, and people conditioned to blindly [B] believe.
[F#] But don't be so naive.
_ [B] _ [Em] You want to see [F#m] the light, you got to ask [G] the right questions.
[B] Why do we fight?
Is it to protect the [Em] morality of a nation based on criminality?
And is [Bm] it for the good of [B] mankind?
Popping off the rockets while their pockets get lined?
[G] Is it for the lives of the little children?
And if it [E] is, tell me [Em] why do we kill them?
I'll tell [F#] you why we fight.
We fight for power, [F#m] material gain, and that's not [B] right.
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[Em] Consider the _ _ [G] lives that we're living and the lives that we're given from on high
by these [B] driven politicians [G] with their military missions,
their twisted visions and [E] illegal prisons.
I don't [G] listen to my lies no more.
Always trying to [A] justify the price of [B] war.
What's that if they're not even [F#] alive no more?
No collateral damage in a [B] private war.
_ [F#] I'm drowning in the [G] [A] sea [Em] of fear and [G] suspicion,
illegal rendition, and people conditioned to [Em] blindly believe.
[F#] But don't be so naive.
_ _ _ You want to see the light, you got to ask the right questions.
Why do we fight?
Is it to protect the morality of a nation [Em] based on criminality?
And [Bm] is it for the global peace?
Are [E] we the police of the [B] global streets?
Is [G] it for the lives of the little children?
And if it [Em] is, tell me why do we kill them?
I'll tell [F#] you why we fight.
We fight for power, imperial gain, [E] and that's not right.
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_ [Em] That's not right. _ _ _ _
_ That's not right.
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_ [E] That's not [Em] right.
No. _
[G] But that's why we [Em] fight. _ _