Love And Understanding

> Love and Understanding - Blue Rodeo

> ----------------------

> Words and Music by: Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy

> >From the CD: Diamond Mine

> Lyrics copied from Blue Rodeo website: www.bluerodeo.com

> Transcribed by: drake@sgl.ists.ca (Drake Hirasawa)

>

> Key: E

>

> Intro:

>

> Esus4 E Esus4 E

>

> E B E A E B E A E

>

> Verse:

> A E

> I live on this rock where the grass don't grow

> A E

> Talk is cheap well I ought to know

> A E

> And I'm not proud of this world we've made

> A

> Still it's a part of you and me

> E

> And we're the only ones who can make it change

>

> Chorus:

> E B

> Many have tried in many ways

> E A

> All I see are longer rows of crosses on the soldiers' graves

> E B

> So do what you have to and when it's all been said

> E E/G# A

> Love and understanding are the best answers I've heard yet

> E A E

> I've heard yet

>

> Tell me what's the price of our achievements

> What's the cost of our pride

> When our obvious brutality

> Is lost before our eyes

> So we choke down the pills

> So you don't have to bother

> Trading one hypnotic state for another

>

> (Chorus)

>