Key: D minor
Intro 1
G#m
Verse 1
G#m
The fuse is set and
checked once more
D#
G#m
Then left beside a back street door
E
B
And in the cold grey light
D#
E
Someone sees a shadow run through
B
D#
the night and out of sight
G#m
E
G#m
They hide inside a smoke
D#
G#m
filled room
E
G#m
To hear at last the blast of doom
E
F#
B
And so the deed is done
E
They listen to the final countdown begun,
F#
B
D#
three, two, one
Verse 2
C#m
F#sus4
F#
Madness, it's a kind of madness
B
A
G#m
Tat turns good men bad
C#m
And we're helpless caught
F#
up in the madness
G#m
E
D#
Of a world gone mad
Interlude 1
D#
G#m
D#
G#m
Verse 3
G#m
E
G#m
D#
G#m
The roar of fire rings out on high
E
G#m
And flames light up the
D#
G#m
black night sky
E
F#
B
A child screams out in fear
E
A hopeless cry for help but no one is near enough
F#
to hear
Interlude 2
B
D#
Abm
Eb
F
Db
Bbm
F
Bbm
F
Gb
B
F
Verse 4
Bbm
Gb
Bbm
As walls collapse and timbers flare
Gb
Bbm
The smell of death hangs in the air
Gb
Ab
Db
When help at last arrives
Gb
Ab
They try to fight the flame but nothing survives of all
Interlude 3
those lives
Db
Bbm
F
Bbm
Gb
Ab
F
Bbm
Gb
Bbm
F
Bbm
Verse 5
Bbm
And it's madness,
Gb
Bbm
Bb
Bbm
every time a victim dies
There is madness,
Ab
burning in a blind man's eyes
Bbm
And it's madness,
Gb
Bbm
Ab
hidden in the hate and pain
Bbm
There is madness,
Ab
burning in a wild man's brain
Bbm
And it's madness,
Ab
every time the bullets start
Bbm
There is madness, burning in a poor man's
Ab
heart
Interlude 4
Bbm
Ab
Bbm
Ab
Bbm
Ab
Bbm
Ab
Verse 6
Bbm
And it's madness,
Gb
Bbm
F
Bbm
something that we can't control
Ab
Bbm
There is madness,
Gb
Bbm
Bbm
Gb
Bbm
burning in a madman's soul
Ab
Bbm
Madness
Madness
Ab
Bbm
Bbm
Mad ness
Ab
Bbm
Madness, madness
Bbm
Bbm
Ab
Ab
Bbm
Mad ness, madness
Bbm
Bbm
Madness, madness, madness
Outro 1
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