• Song:

    Sleep

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    Oils on the Water

Transcribed by...Jonathan Hart. 
 
the verse has no guitar, but the bass line goes: 
(key of Gm ) 
e | ------------------------------- |  
B | ------------------------------- |  
G | -----------------2-------3----- |  
D | -------------0----------------- |  
A | ---------1--------------------- |  
E | -1---3------------------------- |  
 
INTRO: 
Dm Am F C 
 

LYRICS: 
 
So you got the blues 
 
The evening wore out your shoes 
 
To a shuffling beat 
 
It's a colourful crowd 
 
Spray can information 
 
Cover the lonely station 
 
Checkpoint for the state of the nation 
 
So you got the blues 
 
The evening wore out your shoes 
        Dm           Am      F  C 
On the missionbeat beat 
    Dm     Am    F   C 
The radio drug 
Dm       Am   F      C 
Wayward destinations 
Dm     Am      F      C 
Secondhand sensations 
 
CHORUS: 
     Dm  
     Take this heart 
     Dm    Am     F    
     Break this heart 
     C 
     Wrap it up 
 
So you got the blues 
 
The evening wore out your shoes 
 
In the back of the cell 
 
The plug and the cord 
 
Shoulder dislocation 
 
Bruised in isolation 
 
CHORUS 
 
BRIDGE: 
Am   Em  G   Am    Am   F  Dm 
Sleep,             sleep 
Am   Em  G   Am    Am   F  Dm  Dm 
Sleep,             sleep 
 
 
Dm  Am  F  C  Dm  Am  F  C 
In the eye of the storm 
 
Writing on walls 
 
Cross my heart confusion 
 
We're all looking for a new solution 
 

          Dm          Am   F  C 
It's the heat of the land 
Dm           Am   F   C 
Swallowing sweat 
Dm          Am         F       C 
Say those dreams can shake me 
Dm         Am       F      C 
Dawn come down and save me 
 
 
CHORUS 
 
 
BRIDGE 
 
 
So you got the blues 
 
The evening wore out your shoes 
 
So you got the blues 
 
The evening wore out your shoes 
 
So, so you got the blues
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