Cemetery In My Mind Chords
by Midnight Oil
Cemetery In My Mind by Midnight Oil is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, G, C, D, Am, F, Am7 and G/F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em G C
E--2-- --3--------2-- -3--------2-- -3--------2-- -3-----------
B----- -------------- ------------- -------0----- -------------
G----- o----2--0----- ----0-------- ----2-------- -------------
D----- o------------- -------2----- ------------- -------------
A----- -------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
E----- -------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
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Em G D C Em D C G
Locked in the mall in a state of fright
Em G D C Em D C
Looking for salvation in a car headlight
G Em G D
but you can't have
C Em D C G
what you can't buy
Pre-chorus
Am D Am D
Tomorrow is better than yesterday To-morrow is better than to-day To-
Am D Em *
morrow is better than yesterday they say
Chorus
Am G D
Cemetery in my mind
Am G D Am G F
Cemetery in my mind This must be my time
Am G D Am G D Am G
Cemetery in my mind Cemetery in my mind This must be my
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1. 2.
F : F** Am G D
time time Cemetery in my mind
Am G D Am G F
There's no pulse no sign of life This must be my time This must be my
C
time This must be my time
This must be my time
Em G C Em G
This must be my time
C Em G C
This must be my time I know it faces
Em G C
out to sea Ne-gotiate these mysteries There's no one waiting
Em G C
there to see This must be my time
This must be my time
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then:
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Repeat this all 5 times.
(Alternative Chorus...
Am Am7 G D
Cemetery in my mind
Am Am7 G/F# D
Cemetery in my mind
Am Am7 F F
This must be my time)
2.Wake work drink sleep retire
Tide comes in way too high
Now you can fall
Or you can rise
Tomorrow is better than yesterday
Tomorrow is better than today
Tomorrow is better than yesterday they say
Cemetery in my mind
Cemetery in my mind
This must be my time
Cemetery in my mind
You can fall but can you rise
This must be my time
* Extra bar of Em on second verse
**Riff 2:
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