Matthew Good - A Silent Army In The Trees Chords

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What will you find, where will you be
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when you gotta trade for company
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Those plastic guns and infantry
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for a silent army in the trees?

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Well this ain't the woods behind the house
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there ain't nobody screaming out
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for you to come inside and eat
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You're just holding your friends
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and watching them bleed
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Wore camouflage on Halloween,
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a plastic bag, an M-16
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Door to door and house to house
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but ain't nobody handing it out, yeah
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nothing's ever what it seems
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when you're kicking in teeth and wishing it dreams
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Just plastic guns and infantry
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for a silent army in the trees

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Now baby don't you let me down
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a world away and still somehow
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Can't shake the feeling that you're out
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With another man's arms wrapped tight around you

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At night it's cold, we sit and freeze
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running red lights in our Humvees
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Never thought I'd live to see the day I'd be
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afraid of little kids playing in the streets

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Well this ain't the woods behind the house
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There ain't nobody screaming out
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for you to come inside and eat
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You're just holding your friends
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and watching them bleed

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  I'm on fire
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All ice on the outside
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That old man in the sky
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Well he's all ice on the outside

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A muted whale out in the streets
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You watch the stage but burn the seats
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Two metal legs to get along
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You ain't got much without one to stand on

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Sometimes at night, I hear it roll
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A hundred cars long, pulling out slow
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Like the engineers inside my head
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Cold and dark like your side of the bed yeah,

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nothing's ever what it seems
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And even if it is, ends justify means
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With plastic guns and infantry
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for a silent army in the trees

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I'm on fire
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But all ice on the outside
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That old man in the sky
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Well he's all ice on the outside

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