Tom: G
Cadd9 G
Hard times comin home now
Cadd9 G
Can't get your feet on the ground
Cadd9 G G/F# Em D
Thoughts and issues and no one wants you around
Cadd9 G Am C/B C
Barely sleepin and you can't get through to the VA on the phone
Cadd9 G G/F# Em D
No one is hiring and no one wants to give you a loan
Cadd9 D G G/F# Em
And everyone else is carryin on just like they've always done before
Cadd9 D Cadd9 D G
You've been home for a couple a years now buddy but you're still fightin the war
Cadd9 G
Flashback to Falluja
Cadd9 G
Lost another best friend
Cadd9 G Em D
Three tours of duty and you're wondering when it's all gonna end
Cadd9 G Am
Bodies broken and bones shattered
Am C
Blood and dust in your mouth
Cadd9 G Em D
Gettin weary but you're runnin with the few and the proud
Cadd9 D G Em
Sometimes you wonder why you went, You never wondered what you stayed on for
Cadd9 D Cadd9 D G
You've been home for a couple a years now buddy but you're still fightin the war
[Bridge]
Cadd9 G
Men go off to war for a hundred reasons
Am C/B C
But they all come home with the same demons
Cadd9 D G G/F# Em
Some you can keep at bay for awhile, some will pin you to the floor
Cadd9 D Cadd9 D G
You've been home for a couple of years now buddy but you're still fightin the war
Cadd9 G
The bedspread is frayin
Cadd9 G
Faded and tearin apart
Cadd9 G Em D
Two strangers holdin each other in the dark
Cadd9 G Am C
Tell me, what were you dreamin? How did you think it would end?
Cadd9 G Em D
How many heroes are scattered out into the wind?
Cadd9 D G Em
And all the happily ever afters turn to broken dishes and slammin doors
Cadd9 D Cadd9 D G
You've been home for a couple a years now buddy but you're still fightin the war
