Common Ground chords by Midnight Oil

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Dm
A
C
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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
These are not
F 
dispassionate words of the cool
Dm 
Am 
The headline still rules
F 
the editor's a fool
Am 
Shall we  douse out the flames
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or will everybody fuse
Am 
F 
And leave us stranded here tomorrow
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I   heard a calling out,
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a cry from the heart
Am 
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From the towns of cement and the beauty
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A whisper its turned howl,
Am 
F 
man he didn't know
A 
Am 
He was standing waiting for
F 
C 
tomorrow

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Verse 2

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Nothing's left, nothing's found,

there

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must be some common ground

Verse 3
C 
F 
I could never figure the calendars flow
Am 
F 
Nor can I work out how the wild,
wild wind blows
Am 
But we're ready from within
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and we're starting to go
Am 
Away from the place of no
C 
F 
C 
tomorrow

Verse 4

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Nothing's left, nothing's found,

there must be some common ground

Nothing's left,

G#dim

(???) I see there must be some common ground

Verse 5
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Oh the wrecking fields
F 
are a terrible place
Dm 
With a sul phurous smell
and a frightening pace
F 
And the Hook goes early
and the critic is king
Dm 
F 
It's hard to stay human and stand in

Interlude 1

the ring

Verse 6
C 
There's no time to be absent,
F 
a clown or a fool
Am 
While Shylock is smiling
F 
we're loaded like mules
A 
If we surrender ourself
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to industrial rules
Am 
We'll wake up in the
wreckage of tomorrow
F 
C 
Now