D                               G        Em
You can say that it's about the savages
    D                                G     A7
You can say you have a better way to live
        D                G        Em
You can call it Manifest Destiny
        D                                  G    A7
You can talk of all your civilization will give
D                                 G       Em
You can say that we're a thing of history
    D                               G      A7
And progress is the future you will bring
    D                             G         Em
You can send your armies to these mountains
        D         G          A7
You can say we'll prosper beneath your king


[Chorus]
               G            A7
But there will always be resistance
           D                   G
The next battle will always be near
                    A7
As long as you have everything
              D                         G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
    Bm                   G                          A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
            G         A7             D
Because our future is not yours to choose


[Verse 2]
D                                       G          Em
You can say that you've got to stop the communists
    D                             G        A7
You can say that our ideals can't succeed
        D                           G         Em
You can say that competition is the only way
      D                      G     A7
And a global system based on greed
D                           G        Em
And you can call yourself a democrat
D                                  G     A7
You can call yourself whatever you will
    D                                G               Em
And you can keep on stamping out the fires you start
       D                        G    A7
So you might stay on top of the hill


[Chorus]

But there will always be resistance
           D                   G
The next battle will always be near
                    A7
As long as you have everything
              D                         G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
    Bm                   G                          A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
            G         A7             D
Because our future is not yours to choose


[Verse 3]
D                                  G          Em
And you can say that all of us are terrorists
       D                             G    A7
Madmen bent on destroying all that's free
        D                        G       Em
You can say that we are building weapons
   D                                   G   A7
As your bombers fly from sea to bloody sea
D                                     G  Em
You can say you're with us or against us
D                             G           A7
And to die quietly is what we now must do
        D             G         Em
You can maintain your innocence
D                                     G                 A7
You can say that you are many, as you represent the few


[Chorus]

But there will always be resistance
           D                   G
The next battle will always be near
                    A7
As long as you have everything
              D                         G
There will be those who have nothing to fear
    Bm                   G                          A7
And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose
            G         A7             D
Because our future is not yours to choose