God Saves the Queen
#=guy, #=girl, #=both — Capo 6th
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They told me how to stand. . .stand and walk —They made me memorize all their talk
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Then beat me, when I tried. . . tried to balk —Yeah, those gods, they are so cruel.
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And I’ve paid in blood, yeah, I have bled —I severed all their idol’s wooden heads
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Brought back a life— a life among the dead —He breathed life into me again.
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Now I feel— deep inside this—rage —It tears — tears at walls they made
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Oh, believe me — , he’ll find a way. . . a . . .way —God saves the Queen.
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I saw you dressed in your daddy’s gold —You smiled and broke - broke his social mold
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Reaching down, down into the cold —You lit a warm, needed fire.
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As you turned ‘round my world stood still —Time kept racing on with my will
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You and I, yeah, we should dream and build —So fight on! Yeah, fight on and we will.
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We’ll build - build a brand new world —’Cause I want — I want you with me, Girl
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Just like— a banner all unfurled. . . un ...furled —God saves the Queen.
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Then when their circus comes to town —Wisdom is the joke of drunken clowns
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Girl, as the world starts crashing down —Just be my strong, loving queen.
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Don’t kneel when you should stand and fight! —I will find you in the darkest night
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God himself will make these wrongs right —That’s when we will walk away.
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That hour— that hour I will be your man —When you— reach out I’ll take your hand.
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We’ll live— and all the rest be damned. . .damned . . .damned—God saves the Queen.