Phil Collins - Colours

Capo: 1st fret

[Verse 1]
D Dsus4 Bm7 D A
Deep in – side the border
Bm7 A
Children are crying
Bm7 Em7
Fighting for food
D G
Holding their heads
F#m Em A D
Breaking their bread with a stone

D Dsus4 Bm7 D A
All a – long the roadside
Bm7 A
People are standing
Bm7 Em7
Watching the sun
D G
Shielding their eyes
F#m Em A D
Brushing the flies from their face

[Chorus 1]
D Em F#m G
Tell me, what can you say
D Em F#m G
Tell me, who do you blame
D Em D G
Like a mirror you see yourself
D Em F#m G
These people each have a name

[Verse 2]
D Dsus4 Bm7 D A
All a – round the township
Bm7 A
Young men are dying
Bm7 Em
of hunger and thirst
D G
The well has run dry
F#m Em A D
The tears from her eye feeds her son

[Chorus 1]
D Em F#m G
Now Tell me, what can you say
D Em F#m G
Tell me, who do you blame
D Em D G
Like a mirror you see yourself
D Em F#m G D
These people each have a name

(Drum Interlude)

[Part 2]
Em C G Em D
(x4)

[Verse 3]
Am7 D
You can say you’re pulling back
Am7 Em
We see the pictures everywhere
D
But what we don’t see is what’s
C
Going on behind the closed doors
G D
And you don’t seem to care

Am7 D
Do you expect me to believe you
Am7 Em
How can you really think
D C
You can take your horse down to the water
G
Hold a gun at his head
D
And make him drink

[Chorus 2]
C G D C
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
C G D C
No matter what you do, we never see any change

[Interlude]
Em C G Em D

[Verse 4]
Am7 D
People living without rights
Am7 Em
Without their dignity
D C
But how loud does one man have to shout
G D
To earn his right to be free

Am7 D
You can keep your toy soldiers
Am7 Em
To segregate the black and white
D
But when the dust settles
C
And the blood stops running
G D
How do you sleep at night?

[Chorus 2]
C G D C
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
C G D C
No matter what you do, we never see any change
C G D C
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
C G D C
No matter what you do, we never see any change

[Interlude Again]
Em C G Em D
(4x)

[Verse 5]
Am7 D
What makes you so high and mighty
Am7 Em
What makes you so qualified
D
You can sit there and say
C
How many have their freedom
G D
But how many more have died

Am7 D
You decide to sit in judgement
Am7 Em
Trying to play God yourself
D C
Oh but someday soon the buck is gonna stop
G D
Stop with you and no one else

[Chorus 2]
C G D C
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
C G D C
No matter what you do, we never see any change
C G D C
No matter what you say, it never gets any better
C G D C
No matter what you do, we never see any change

[Postlude 1 (band still playing)]
Em C G Em D
(4x)
Em C G Em
(2x)
Em C G Em D

[Postlude 2 (synth only)]
Em C G Em D
(2x)
Em C G Em
(2x)
Em C G Em D