Key: D minor
Intro 1
F#m
Verse 1
F#m
The fuse is set and
checked once more
C#
F#m
Then left beside a back street door
D
A
And in the cold grey light
C#
D
Someone sees a shadow run through
A
C#
the night and out of sight
F#m
D
F#m
They hide inside a smoke
C#
F#m
filled room
D
F#m
To hear at last the blast of doom
D
E
A
And so the deed is done
D
They listen to the final countdown begun,
E
A
C#
three, two, one
Verse 2
Bm
Esus4
E
Madness, it's a kind of madness
A
G
F#m
Tat turns good men bad
Bm
And we're helpless caught
E
up in the madness
F#m
D
C#
Of a world gone mad
Interlude 1
C#
F#m
C#
F#m
Verse 3
F#m
D
F#m
C#
F#m
The roar of fire rings out on high
D
F#m
And flames light up the
C#
F#m
black night sky
D
E
A
A child screams out in fear
D
A hopeless cry for help but no one is near enough
E
to hear
Interlude 2
A
C#
F#m
C#
D#
B
G#m
D#
G#m
D#
E
A
D#
Verse 4
G#m
E
G#m
As walls collapse and timbers flare
E
G#m
The smell of death hangs in the air
E
F#
B
When help at last arrives
E
F#
They try to fight the flame but nothing survives of all
Interlude 3
those lives
B
G#m
D#
G#m
E
F#
D#
G#m
E
G#m
D#
G#m
Verse 5
G#m
And it's madness,
E
G#m
G#
G#m
every time a victim dies
There is madness,
F#
burning in a blind man's eyes
G#m
And it's madness,
E
G#m
F#
hidden in the hate and pain
G#m
There is madness,
F#
burning in a wild man's brain
G#m
And it's madness,
F#
every time the bullets start
G#m
There is madness, burning in a poor man's
F#
heart
Interlude 4
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
G#m
F#
Verse 6
G#m
And it's madness,
E
G#m
D#
G#m
something that we can't con trol
F#
G#m
There is madness,
E
G#m
G#m
E
G#m
burning in a madman's soul
F#
G#m
Madness
Madness
F#
G#m
G#m
Mad ness
F#
G#m
Madness, madness
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
G#m
Mad ness, madness
G#m
G#m
Madness, madness, madness
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