• Song:

    Read About It

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    1984-04-10: Park West, ...

B        E           B           E
The rich get richer, the poor get the picture
    B          E                     G#m
The bombs never hit you when you're down so low


   B        E        B      E
Some got pollution, some revolution
      B             E              C#m             A
There must be some solution but I just don't know


    B            E              B           E
The bosses want decisions, the workers need ambitions
       B          E                     G#m
There won't be no collisions when they move so slow


B           E         B             E
Nothing ever happens, nothing really matters
B            E               C#m                   A
No one ever tells me what am I to know, so what am I to know


            A
   You wouldn't read about it, read about it
   D
   Just another incredible scene, there's no doubt about it


B         E            B           E
Hammer and sickle, the news is at a trickle
    B          E                 G#m
The commissars are fickle but the stockpile grows


B           E         B           E
Bombers keep coming, engines softly humming
     B                 E                    C#m           A
The stars and stripes are running for their own big show


B             E           B              E
Another little flare up, storm brewed in a teacup
B          E              G#m
Imagine any mix-up and the lot would go


           G#m
Nothing ever happens, nothing really matters
B          E                 C#m                   A
No one ever tells me what am I to know, so what am I to know


               A
  You wouldn't read about it, read about it
   D
  One unjust ridiculous steal, ain't no doubt about it
                  D
  You wouldn't read about it, read about it
   D
  Just another particular deal, ain't no doubt about it

 *  * Intro

Bridge:
    B        E           B           E
The rich get richer, the poor get the picture
    B          E                     G#m
The bombs never hit you when you're down so low
   B        E        B      E
Some got pollution, some de-evolution
      B             E              C#m             A
There must be some solution but I just don't know
B      E    B     E  
  Ahh-ahhh,   ahh-ahhh

 *  * Intro
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