Misc Originals – Bella Qim - A Child Left In The Forest (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
Em          D           Em
A child was sent into a forest

   Em             D      Em
and told he could hold a gun

Em     D           Em
how to shoot and become his best

    Em     Am       Em
and how to kill for fun
[Verse 2]
Em             D     Em
the thickness of the green

Em            D      Em
run down with sulfur smoke

       Em       D         Em
but the child's eyes were keen

    Em      Am    Em
for fear of enemy choke
[Chorus]
G            D           Am      D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy

    G              D         Em
but please can you stop this pain

G       D            G         D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle

    G           D           Em
the promise you made in the rain?
[Verse 3]
 Em     D        Em
A giant nightmare stretched

      Em         D        Em
cause days don't count no more

    Em          D       Em
the stories are too far fetched

         G            Am     Em
cause at home there's no such war
[Verse 4]
      Em                D
so he returned from the unnamed hill

     Em             D
they call him now a man

       Em         D
but he closes his eyes to chills

           Em     Am         Em
(cause) no more a gun in his hand
[Verse 5]
G       D    Em        D
no more son, you can't kill

G           D     Em          D
the hill is gone, really what hill?

G              D         Em         D
you were never there, you never did kill

G           Am           Em
here- get a shrink; send me the bill-
[Verse 6]
  G      D   Em      D
so I'm a man now they say

G      D     Em    D
I'm so lost, am I really?

       G        D        Em          D
who said make a stand by taking down another man

     G                 D        Em
in a foreign land, eyes steeled, blood so chilly
[Chorus]
G            D           Am      D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy

    G              D         Em
but please can you stop this pain

G       D            G         D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle

    G           D           Em
the promise you made in the rain?
[Verse 7]
   Em       D       Em
so tired of all the scripted news

   Em       D       Em
so tired of all the inside jokes

    Em        D         Em
the child has blown his final fuse

     Em       Am      Em
then lost his will to hoax
[Verse 8]
Em             D
commend me for all my glory

Em                      D
and seize the mind I've left

Em        D
long died in the fury

    Em      Am        Em
are all the tears I've wept
[Verse 9]
    Em               D
the last companion's gone

     Em              D
to a place not here, for more

   Em                D
to light a brand new dawn

   Em         Am        Em
far away from this blackened shore
[Chorus]
G            D           Am      D
Mother, I've played your soldier boy

    G              D         Em
but please can you stop this pain

G       D            G         D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle

    G           D           Em
the promise you made in the rain?

G            D           Am     D
Mother I've played your soldier boy

     G           D          Em
but I lost the life to be gained

G       D            G         D
can you spare me the cure dear uncle

    G       D             Em
I lost what could've been gained
[to end] ||: G D Am D
    G        D        Em:||
Can you stop this pain...
I lost life that could've been gained... please stop this pain...