Would You

[Verso 1]

 
         Am        C                  Em              Am 
Would you shoot an unknown person who is like you and me? 
         Am        C            Em 
Would you invent a bomb to kill hundreds randomly? 
         Am        C        Em                   Am 
Would you give the order of attack although you know 
         Am       C           Em 
That ten thousand people will suffer from the blow? 


[Refrão]


    F        G         C             Am 
The evils of war, they make my heart sore 
  F                 D        G   G7 
Because they’re not human anymore 
         C           Dm             G 
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things? 
         C        Dm         G 
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this 
     F          G            C              Am 
What does a man feel when he commits such evil? 
        Dm              G         C 
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure? 
    F                  G         C          Am 
The threat of your own life, the will to survive 
          F       G            C 
Does that justify any of these actions? 


[Verso 2]

 
         Am       C                Em               Am 
Would you force a mother to kill a child of her own blood? 
         Am        C                       Em 
Would you attack a person trying to save a comrade in the mud? 
         Am       C          Em              Am 
Would you help in systematic cleansing of minorities 
       Am        C              Em 
Ending lives of innocent humans permanently? 


[Refrão]


    F        G         C             Am 
The evils of war, they make my heart sore 
  F                 D        G   G7 
Because they’re not human anymore 
         C           Dm             G 
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things? 
         C        Dm         G 
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this 
     F          G            C              Am 
What does a man feel when he commits such evil? 
        Dm              G         C 
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure? 
    F                  G         C          Am 
The threat of your own life, the will to survive 
          F       G            C 
Does that justify any of these actions? 


[Verso 3]


         Am       C               Em            Am 
Would you smack a child against a tree until it dies? 
         Am       C                Em 
Would you throw a bomb to wipe out hundreds of lives? 
         Am        C         Em           Am 
Would you cause excruciating pain just to prove 
         Am           C               Em 
Someone’s guilty of a crime he didn’t do? 


[Refrão]

 
    F        G         C             Am 
The evils of war, they make my heart sore 
  F                 D        G   G7 
Because they’re not human anymore 
         C           Dm             G 
Can you imagine what makes a person do all these things? 
         C        Dm         G 
I do not feel the empathy to grasp any of this 
     F          G            C              Am 
What does a man feel when he commits such evil? 
        Dm              G         C 
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure? 
    F                  G         C          Am 
The threat of your own life, the will to survive 
          F       G            C 
Does that justify any of these actions? 
     F          G            C              Am 
What does a man feel when he commits such evil? 
        Dm              G         C 
Does it hurt or does he feel some pleasure? 
    F                  G         C          Am 
The threat of your own life, the will to survive 
       F       G            C 
Do not justify any of these actions?