Midnight Strikes Too Soon chords by
Ellis Paul

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Key: E major

Intro 1

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Cathy's hailing

Verse 1
a cab like she's hailing a storm
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Unto the streets of new york city
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Once we're inside, it's a carnival ride
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That brings a white knuckle
kind of dizzy
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She takes me up on

Verse 2
her rooftop,
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Framed by a backdrop of
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watertanks and chimneys
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She's wrapped round a cigarette,
Lecturing etiquette,
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while I look in the windows
Beneath me
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Verse 3
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We took in Saturday and
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it was medicine
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And when nighttime came the sky
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line just swallowed
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The moon
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Cathy lays the blame on
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thomas alva edison
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And 60 million
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lightbulbs telling new york that
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It's noon
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Ah, midnight strikes too
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soon
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Midnight strikes too soon
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She says, "in new york

Verse 4
city,
they throw their
Wishes into wells
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'cause you can't see a star,
unless one hit you when
It fell - - "
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"and if even you caught one," I say,
"who
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Could you tell in this whole
damn town who'd
Believe you? "
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She smiled like

Verse 5
a cat would to a
pigeon on the roof
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She says, "I look into windows
for universal truths"
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And we drank in the moment
like whiskey hundred
Proof
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"but if orion fell," she said,
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"I'd tell you"
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The view from

Verse 6
her roof
could make your head
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Just spin
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It was like holding up the world
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in a tablespoon
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And we drank it down,m every
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light in town
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Like the sweetest, kindest medicine
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I made my wish on a satellite dish
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But still midnight strikes too soon
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Midnight strikes too soon
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Interlude 1

Cathy never seems to

Verse 7
slow down
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She's a hurricane work
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ing a skyscraper town
She laughs at me, says I'm
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suburban bound
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But the truth is I live on a highway
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I come

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to this city for
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the solace of her roof
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Every window tells a story
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in cold hard truth
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As the world spins beneath me,
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I ask it for proof
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That I'm living my life in my own way
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Or will time just have it's own say
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Verse 9
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Midnight strikes too soon
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Midnight strikes too soon
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Midnight strikes too soon
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Midnight strikes too soon

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