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Common Ground

Transcribed by Jeff Scott

        Bm                G                 Bm               G
E-----|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
B-----|-7---------------|-10--------------|-7--------------|-10--------------|
G-----|-----------------|---------7---9---|----------------|---------7---9---|
D-----|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
A--9\-|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|
E-----|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-----------------|

|Bm                           |G                         |Bm                       |
 1.These are not dispassionate words of the cool      The headline still rules  The

|G                      |Bm                             |G                    |
 editor's a fool   Shall we douse out the flames or will everybody fuse    And
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                        |1.                 ||2,3.
|Bm                     |G                 :||G                |D                  |
 leave  stranded here to-morrow               morrow              Nothing's left

|A           A#dim       |Bm*      |G                        |D                    |
   Nothing's found                  There must be some common ground

|                   |A/C#           A#dim        |Bm*    |G                       |
   Nothing's left         Nothing's found                 There must be some common
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|1.            ||2.
|D            :||Em                                 |G                             |
 ground          ground oh the wrecking fields are a       terrible place    with a
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|Em                                             |
 sulphurous smell and a frightening pace and the
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|G                                              |Em                     |
 hook goes early and the critic is king and it's hard to stay human and
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|G                           |
  stand in the ring
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  Bm                D                 Bm                G
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------2---5---|
B---------2---3---|-3-5-5-7-7---7-7-|-7---7-7-7-7-----|-----3-----------|
G-----4-----------|-----------------|-------------2-4-|-4---------------|
D-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
 ______________
|3. 
|D            |  Bm               G                    Bm
 ground        E----------------|--------------------|------------------|
               B-7--------------|-10-----------------|-7----------------|
               G----------------|------------7---9---|------------------|
               D----------------|--------------------|------------------|
               A----------------|--------------------|------------------|
               E----------------|--------------------|------------------|

  G                       Bm                G         Bm        G         D
E-----------------------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|--------||
B-10------10-10---------|-----------------|--o------|--o------|--o------|--------||
G----------------7--9---|-9-7-------------|----/----|----/----|----/----|-7------||
D-----------------------|-----7-9---------|------o--|------o--|------o--|--------||
A-----------------------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|--------||
E-----------------------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|--------||

2.I heard a calling out, a cry from the heart
  From the towns of cement and no beauty
  A whisper it turned howl, man he didn't know
  He was standing waiting for tomorrow

3.I never could figure the calendar's flow
  Nor can I work out how the wild wind blows
  But I'm ready from within and we're starting to go
  Away from the place of no tomorrow

4.There is no time to be absent, a clown or a fool
  While Shylock is smiling we're loaded like mules
  If we surrender ourselves to industrial rules
  We'll wake up in the wreckage of tomorrow

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