D G Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes D Bm A Grandma lays the table alone D G And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier D Bm A In this Holy of Holies the Home G D Em F#m And from the TV an unwatched voice G D Em F#m Suggests the answer is to plant more trees G D Em F#m The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers G D Em F#m And the voice of the people says more salt please D G Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the newspaper D Bm A And Father puts another lock on the door D G And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in D Bm A While chatting to the wife beater next door G D Em F#m If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime G D Em F#m Home truths are easily missed G D Em F#m Something that every football fan knows G D Em A Bm It only takes five fingers to form a fist A Em F#m And when it rains here, it rains so hard Em F#m G A But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow Em F#m G A I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow Em F#m G A The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence Em F#m G A From this family life sentence D G Mother sees but does not read the peeling posters D Bm A And can't believe that there's a world to be won D G But in the public schools and in the public houses D Bm A The Battle of Britain goes on G D Em F#m The constant promise of jam tomorrow G D Em F#m Is the New Breeds litany and verse G D Em F#m If it takes another war to fill the churches of England G D Em F#m Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth D G Mother fights the tears and father, his sense of outrage D Bm A And attempts to justify the sacrifice D G To pass their creed down to another generation D Bm A Anything for the quite life G D Em F#m In the Land of a Thousand Doses G D Em F#m Where nostalgia is the opium of the age G D Em F#m Our place in history is as clock watchers G D Em F#m Old timers, window shoppers
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