Rising Seas

Midnight Oil

Intro organ:
Gm               Dm
Every child, put down your toys
Eb                   Bb
  And come inside to sleep
   Cm                  Eb
We have to look    you in the eye
    Bb                F
And say, "We sold you cheap"

Gm                Dm
Let's confess, we did not act
Eb                  Bb
  With serious urgency
   Cm          Eb
So open up the floodgates
Bb               F
   To the rising seas

Riff mostly single note, some 5 chords for effect:
Gm F  Gm F   Eb C  Eb D

Verse1 Gm F  Gm F   Eb C  Eb D:
Temperature rising
Climate denying
Fever is gripping
Nobody's listening

second guitar Gm Gm sus at 10th fret:
Lustre is fading
'Cause nobody's trading
Wall Street is jumping
Still, the music keeps pumping

Bridge riff:
If you can't decide (if you can't decide)
Between wrong and right (wrong and right)
If you can't see through (if you can't see through)
         Gm F      Gm F    Eb C  Eb C  Eb C  Eb D
All that you hold true (hold true)

Chorus:
Gm           Dm
Queen of the firmament
Eb            Bb
Lord of all beneath
Cm             Eb
Masters of the universe
Bb            F
We're all refugees

Gm          Dm
And in many countries
      Eb         Bb/D
They adore celebrities
Cm          Eb
Open up the floodgates to
    Bb     F
The rising seas

Riff:
Gm F  Gm F   Eb C  Eb D

Verse2 Gm F  Gm F   Eb C  Eb D:
D-dinosaur stories
Reliving past glories
Lusting for gold
F-f-fishing for souls

Gm second guitar:
They said it was a-coming
We knew it was a-coming

Bridge:
If you lift your game (if you lift your game)
Put your toys away (toys away)
Well, it looks like rain (well, it looks like rain)
        Gm F      Gm F    Eb C  Eb C  Eb C  Eb D
On that western plain

Instr lead:
Gm           Dm
Eb            Bb
Cm             Eb
Bb            F

Chorus:
Gm           Dm
Queen of the firmament
Eb            Bb
Lord of all beneath
Cm             Eb
Masters of the universe
Bb            F
We're all refugees

Gm          Dm
And in many countries
      Eb         Bb/D
They adore celebrities
Cm          Eb
Open up the floodgates to
    Bb     F
The rising seas
Bb               F
   To the rising seas
Bb               F
   To the rising seas


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NOTE - chords are much nicer with capo 1 or capo3
but the band plays it in Gm!

capo1 chorus
F#m C#m D A
Bm  D   A E

Capoi1 verse/riff
F#m E F#m E  D B D C#


Capo3 chorus
Em Bm C G
Am C  G D

Capo3 riff (E-D doesnt really work single strings
Em D Em D  C A C B
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