Performed by the Whitlams, but composed by Tim Hall, who sings and plays
guitar on the track.
Tune your bottom string down to D.
Opening/verse riff: (note measure A & B)
let ring|------
e------------------------------------
b------------------------------------
g----0-0---0-0-----------------------
d---2-----1------4------------------- A
a---------------5--4h5p4----4-5-7----
d--2-----1-----0----------7----------
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-------------------------------------
----------------0-----0--------------
----3-----4----1-1---1-1------------- B
---3-3---2-4--------3----------------
--3-----4-----1----------------------
Repeat over verse:
He thinks it's best to criticise his own kind
An animal of greed, best to sew that social seed
I thought by my thoughts all would come clear to me
Yeah I can shoot a gun, maybe I should join the army.
Chorus:
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----0----0----0-----0----0----0----0--
---0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0-
--2----0----------3----2----0---------
------------5--------------------5----
--------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------
----0----0----0-----0----0----0----0-----0--
---0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0-
--3----2----0----------3----2----------0----
------------------5--------------5----------
Is there a quiet place to lie?
Maybe watch this all go by
Wonder how can we survive
Wasting energy, where's the enemy?
Verse 2:
I'd soldier on and walk the curvy line
so straight
But I would fall behind, maybe I am not
so blinded
You talk of so much pity that is
self-related
Blaming not yourself, said the fault lies
somewhere else.
Chorus:
Repeated when the feeling's high
I wish it all could just rely
On the depth of you and I
Wasting energy, where's the enemy?
Bridge:
Measure A of the intro several times,
Then Measure B.
Then when Tim is murmuring, noodle around this shape:
Brackets indicate notes to play with.
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----------
--0-------
--2-(0)---
--x----(4)
--2-------
Then finish on the C chord that ends Measure B:
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------
----0-
---2--
--3---
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And back into another chorus!
Chorus repeats, slows, and finishes the song with the Em chord:
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--0--
--2--
--2--
--2--
