Minutes To Midnight

Minutes to Midnight by Midnight Oil

from the album "Red Sails in the Sunset"

Everybody say God is a good man

Ah, clock on the world

Driving a dumptruck up to the sun

A sigh in the human heart

I look at the clock on the wall

It says three minutes to midnight

Faith is blind when we're so near

Phar Lap floating in a jar

Seas full of submarines, A.W.A.C.'s like flies

Truth gets harder to define

Talking in tongues

But the dancer's hand grips the rail

And fingers will blister on the 88's

Hope drains out the side of the page

But ears can't hear

What eyes don't see

Cm (?) G/B

And you can't see me

Am - with solo: (played on a 12-string)

e-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|

B-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|

G-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|

D-|---/7-----5-------------------------------------7--------------|

A-|----------------7-----5---3-5-7-----------------7--------------|

E-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|

Am - with solo:

e-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

B-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

G-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

D-|-/7-----5------------------------------------------------------|

A-|--------------7-----5---3-5-7---555555530-3-----555555530-3----|

E-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

D with solo: then F with solo:

e-|------------------------| e-|------------------------|

B-|------------------------| B-|------------------------|

G-|-/7-------4-----5-------| G-|-/7-------4-----5-------|

D-|------------------------| D-|------------------------|

A-|------------------------| A-|------------------------|

E-|------------------------| E-|------------------------|

Cm (?) G/B

Everybody say God is a good man

Everybody say 1,2,3

Set up those gunsights in H.G.Wells' backyard

I.C.B.M.'s, S.S.20's, they lie so dormant, they got so many

Remember your childhood

Remember your journey

Hope is what you say and do

But ears can't hear

What eyes don't see

Cm (?)

And you can't see me

 

But ears can't hear

What eyes don't see

But ears can't hear

What those eyes don't see

And you can't see me

End

p.s. I'm still not sure if that's a Cminor or a Cmajor?!

Jonathan Hart

Oils@total.net