Misc Originals – Alana Brezenski - Still A Soldier (Guitar)

    Am                Em
I take my medicine, don't you take mine

   Am                               Em
The pills I take to survive, just keep you high

 C                 Em                   C
I've seen war ...trough these eyes,... trapped in a chair,

            Em                      C                  Em             Am
shrapnel shredded my thighes.......I'd stop you ... but I can't .... rise.

C
Two tours in Takrit and another in Kandahar

                         E7
Manning the 50 cal, every day for me was war

C
Slept under the Humvee, sand in my eyes

                                            E7
Not sure who the enemy is, what's truth, what's lies

C
12 hours on patrol, no water, no chance to eat

                                                E
Yesterday I cut a man in half and watched him bleed

Am
I made friends, said they cared

C                               Am          E
Still looked over my shoulder every moment there

    C
On a supply route north west of Kabul

                                            E
My fear and discomfort made me feel like a fool

C
And 30 hours on guard, stepped down from my gun

                  E
in a moment of lapse an IED left me numb.

Am
Ill never leave this floor it's forever a winter

E                          Am
I'll never again feel the sun

   C                           Am     E
The same feeling I had the day I went numb

C
My winds shifted, patroits will carry me away

E7                               Am                    E7
In two days I'll leave the VA, nothing left for me to claim

C                         E7
Never sought fortune, I never sought fame                       

C                      E7
defended my country, fought in her name

C                                    E7
Never ask for recognition, never assigned any blame

Am                                      E7
When I wheel down the ramp, I won't complain about the pain

C                                Am                     E7
Can't understand the theft only one more ... high ... to gain

C                                               E7
Can't believe there are those who prey on the wounded ones

C                                           E7
I'm still a soldier and I can't leave this wrong undone

  C                                              E7
I won't leave here and allow this addict to hurt anyone

  Am
The night before I leave I'll lay out a plan

  E7
I'm still a soldier, sitting .....I can still make a stand

     C
When he brings the chair to wheel me away

  E7                                            Am
This marine's last mission will be to make him pay

    Am                Em
I take my medicine, don't you take mine

   Am                               Em
The pills I take to survive, just keep you high

 C                 Em                   C
I've seen war ...trough these eyes,... trapped in a chair,

            Em                      C                  Em             Am
shrapnel shredded my thighes.......I'd stop you ... but I can't .... rise.