Intro:
Em, D, C, C, G, D, C, C, G, stop, G
G C
The moon lights up over the battlefield now,
G
With a blistering heat somehow
D
Lifeless, limp and broken hearts are dead,
C
I should have just stayed home instead
G
Stayed alive.
G
We'll letter arrives
G C
It glistens’ in mothers eyes
G
She wonders where when and why
D
She could have tucked him in his bed,
C
With a kiss on the cheek and his head
G
He'd stay alive
(Chorus)
Em D C G
Well the moon and the stars can't cast shadows on what is wrong
D C
Well our boys are dead, they’ve been mislead.
G (stop)
Nothing more
G C
The sun wakes up, bring sparkles in the morning light,
G D
Rubs her belly bows her head to cry, she lost him before they were wed
C G
But he’s there in her heart and her head, he’ll stay alive
Chorus) X2
Em D C G
Well the moon and the stars can't cast shadows of what is wrong
D C
Well our boys are dead, they’ve been mislead.
G (stop second time)
Nothing more
G C
The moon lights up over the battlefield now.