Biography:
Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is a power pop musician from Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s.
As a young musician wanting to make a name for himself, Sweet set off to Athens, Georgia in the mid '80s, to attend college and join the vibrant Athens music scene, most famous as the home base for R.E.M. and The B-52's.
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Other songs:
- Come To Love
- Dinosaur Act
- Do It Again
- Does She Talk
- Dont Cry No Tears
- Dont Go
- Evergreen
- Everything Changes
- Farther Down
- Girlfriend
- Giving It Back
- Happiness
- Hide
- Holy War
- How Cool
- I Almost Forgot
- I Wanted To Tell You
- In Too Deep
- Isolation
- Life Without You
- Looking At The Sun
- Lost My Mind
- Morning Song
- My Pet
- Never Said Goodbye
- Push The Feelings
- Quiet Her
- Reaching Out
- Save Time For Me
- Scooby
- Sick Of Myself
- Smog Moon
- Someone To Pull The Trigger
- Superdeformed
- Teenage Female
- Thing
- Thought I Knew You
- Tommorrow
- Trade Places
- Wait
- Walk Out
- What Do You Know
- What Matters
- Wild
- Winona
- You Dont Love Me
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"Holy War"
Em G
I've spent 20 years learning to live
Am Em
In a world that takes back all that it gives
C D
But I do not want a war
(Same for verse two)
Em G C D
'cause I'm not in for killing another man
Em G C D
Defending my holy land
Em G C D
As if there's a god who would understand
(Verse 3 - same pregression as Verses 1 and 2)
(Chorus 2 - same as 1)
C - -- Em
Feeding the promised land
(I'm sure if he just changes his bass strings like C-B-A-G-E, or if he
changes the entire chord as in C-G-Am-G-Em....anyway, he starts with C
and ends with Em!)
C - -- Em
With your blood by my own hand
C
At Allah's own command
D
At Allah's own command
Lyrics:
I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
I don't know what's going on
In the scenes behind
I worry about it some of the time
And I hope there's not a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
And I would walk across highways
To find my fate
If that might settle your crude debate
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At allah's own command
At allah's own command
I came up from the desert and here I will die
Tooth for tooth and an eye for an eye
Though I didn't want a war
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
Oh yeah...
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
#
# For the latest collection of Matthew Sweet chords, go to
# http://www.uark.edu/~cbray/sweet/
#
# If you have any corrections or additions to this file, please email them
# to [email protected]
#
"Holy War"
Em G
I've spent 20 years learning to live
Am Em
In a world that takes back all that it gives
C D
But I do not want a war
(Same for verse two)
Em G C D
'cause I'm not in for killing another man
Em G C D
Defending my holy land
Em G C D
As if there's a god who would understand
(Verse 3 - same pregression as Verses 1 and 2)
(Chorus 2 - same as 1)
C - -- Em
Feeding the promised land
(I'm sure if he just changes his bass strings like C-B-A-G-E, or if he
changes the entire chord as in C-G-Am-G-Em....anyway, he starts with C
and ends with Em!)
C - -- Em
With your blood by my own hand
C
At Allah's own command
D
At Allah's own command
Lyrics:
I've spent twenty years learning to live
In a world that takes back all that it gives
But I do not want a war
I don't know what's going on
In the scenes behind
I worry about it some of the time
And I hope there's not a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
And I would walk across highways
To find my fate
If that might settle your crude debate
But I do not want a war
'Cause I'm not in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
Feeding the promised land
With your blood by my own hand
At allah's own command
At allah's own command
I came up from the desert and here I will die
Tooth for tooth and an eye for an eye
Though I didn't want a war
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
I went in for killing another man
Defending my holy land
As if there's a god who would understand
As if there's a god who would understand
Oh yeah...
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