Dark Ages

	  		
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    Darlings are you ready for the long winter's fall? 
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said the lady in her parlor 
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said the butler in the hall. 
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Is there time for another? 
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cried the drunkard in his sleep. 
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Not likely said the little child. 
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What's done the Lord can keep. 

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And the vicar stands a-praying. 
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And the television dies 
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as the white dot flickers and is gone 
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and no-one stops to cry. 


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Dark Ages shaking the dead 
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Closed pages better not read 
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Cold rages burn in your head. 


Em 
  The big jet rumbles over runway miles 
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that scar the patchwork green 
  Em 
where slick tycoons and rich buffoons 
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have opened up the seam 
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of golden nights and champagne flights 
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ad-man overkill 
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and in the haze consumer crazed 
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we take the sugar pill. 


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Dark Ages shaking the dead 
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Closed pages better not read 
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Cold rages burn in your head. 


Em 
  Jagged fires mark the picket lines 
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the politicians weep 
Em 
and mealy-mouthed 
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through corridors of power on tip-toe creep. 
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Come and see bureaucracy 
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make its final heave 
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and let the new disorder through 
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while senses take their leave. 


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Dark Ages shaking the dead 
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Closed pages better not read 
 G    F Eb  Bb           C    Eb F G5 Em 
Cold rages burn in your head. 

Solo part

Em 
  Families screaming line the streets 
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and put the windows through 
Em 
in corner shops 
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where keepers kept the country's life-blood blue. 
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Take their pick and try the trick 
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with loaves and fishes shared 
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and the vicar shouts as the lights go out, 
     D             B 
and no-one really cares. 


 G   F Eb   Bb         C 
Dark Ages shaking the dead 
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Closed pages better not read 
 G    F Eb  Bb           C    Eb F G5 
Cold rages burn in your head. 


                      1                       D 
Darlings are you ready for the long winter's fall? 
 G                    F 
said the lady in her parlor 
 Am                     C 
said the butler in the hall. 


 A   G F     C         D     F G 
Dark Ages shaking the dead 
 A      G F   C          D   F G 
Closed pages better not read 
 A    G F   C            D   F G  D B   F# F# F# D 
Cold rages burn in your head.