Inside Job chords by Don Henley

SimplifiedEm · C#dim · C · C#m · A …

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Em
C#dim
C
C#m
A
F#
Am

Intro 1

Verse 1

While you were sleeping

They came and took it all away

The lanes and the

meadows

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Verse 2

The places where you used to play

It was an inside job

By the well-connected

Your Your little protest

Verse 3
Summarily rejected
Em 
 (E minor) It was an inside job
C#dim 
C#m 
C 
 (C sharpdim) Like it  (C sharp minor) always is  (C major) 
Chalk it up to business as usual
Em 
C#dim 
A 
C 
 (E minor)  (C sharpdim)  (A major)  (C major) 

Verse 4
Em 
 (E minor) 
C#dim 
C 
While we are  (C sharpdim) dreaming  (C major) 
Em 
This little island disappears  (E minor) 
C#dim 
C 
While you are  (C sharpdim) looking  the other way  (C major) 
They'll take your right to

Verse 5
own your own ideas
Em 
 (E minor) And it's an inside job
C#dim 
C#m 
C#dim 
 (C sharpdim) Fa (C sharp minor) vors  collec (C sharpdim) ted
C 
 (C major) Your trusted servants
Have left you unprotected

Verse 6

It was an inside job

Like it always is

Just chalk it up

Verse 7
To business as usual
A 
 (A major) You think that you're so smart
F# 
C#dim 
But  (F sharp major) you don't have a fucking clue  (C sharpdim) 
A 
 (A major) What those men up in the towers
F# 
C#dim 
 (F sharp major) Are doing to me  (C sharpdim) and      you
A 
And they'll keep  (A major) doin' it and doin' it
And doin' it and doin' it
F# 
And  (F sharp major) doin' it and doin' it
C#dim 
And  (C sharpdim) doin'    it and doin' it
A 
Un (A major) til we all wake up
C 
Wake up, wake  (C major) up, wake up,
Em 
wake up  (E minor) 

Interlude 1

Verse 8

I know what I've done wrong

I am acquainted with the night

I know how hard it is

Verse 9
To always walk out in the light
Em 
 (E minor) And it's an inside job
C#dim 
 (C sharpdim) To learn about forgiving
C 
 (C major) It's an inside job
To hang on to the joy of living

Verse 10

They know the road by which you came

They know your mother's

maiden name

And what you had for breakfast

Verse 11

And what you've hidden in the mattress

Insect politics

Indifferent universe

Bang your head against the wall

Verse 12

But apathy is worse

It's an inside job

Verse 13
Yeh, yeah
Em 
 (E minor) It's an inside job
C#dim 
 (C sharpdim) It's an inside job
C 
 (C major) It's an inside job
Em 
C#dim 
 (E minor) It's an inside job  (C sharpdim) 