• 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: 
D5 A5 F5 C5 
 

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 
        D5           A5      F5  C5 
On the missionbeat beat 
    D5     A5    F5   C5 
The radio drug 
D5       A5   F5      C5 
Wayward destinations 
D5     A5      F5      C5 
Secondhand sensations 
 
CHORUS: 
     D5  
     Take this heart 
     D5    A5     F5    
     Break this heart 
     C5 
     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: 
A5   E5  G5   A5    A5   F5  D5 
Sleep,             sleep 
A5   E5  G5   A5    A5   F5  D5  D5 
Sleep,             sleep 
 
 
D5  A5  F5  C5  D5  A5  F5  C5 
In the eye of the storm 
 
Writing on walls 
 
Cross my heart confusion 
 
We're all looking for a new solution 
 

          D5          A5   F5  C5 
It's the heat of the land 
D5           A5   F5   C5 
Swallowing sweat 
D5          A5         F5       C5 
Say those dreams can shake me 
D5         A5       F5      C5 
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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